Global streaming service Netflix has hired a VP of business development in the Asia Pacific region as it builds relationships with regional telcos. Anthony Zameczkowski has joined from Victorious, a mobile video start-up backed by Silicon Valley private investor Kleiner Perkins. Before that, he spent eight years at Google and its video platform YouTube and […]
FremantleMedia International has picked up international rights to Eye Candy, the new MTV drama about a 21-year-old hacker, based on the R.L. Stine novel of the same name. The series will debut on MTV in the US next week. FremantleMedia will sell it internationally with the exception of the US. The 10x60mins series is exec […]
Viacom International Media Networks is launching 4Teen, a new kids and teens cable net, in France. 4Teen is a French version of the US Teenick service. It will have Nick shows including Sam & Cat, Every Witch Way, Victorious and iCarly. The channel will have content skewed to kids aged 7-to-14 years-old. It will sit […]
Nickelodeon’s live-action comedy Sam & Cat has been cancelled after one season. This comes after the show was put on hiatus in April amid rumours of conflict between the show’s stars Jenette McCurdy and Ariana Grande (above, left and right respectively), and issues over salaries. “Nickelodeon will not be producing more episodes of Sam & […]
Nickelodeon’s live-action comedy Sam & Cat has been cancelled after one season. This comes after the show was put on hiatus in April amid rumours of conflict between the show’s stars Jenette McCurdy and Ariana Grande (above, left and right respectively), and issues over salaries. “Nickelodeon will not be producing more episodes of Sam & […]
The value of investing in live-action programming is becoming abundantly clear to broadcasters around the globe, reports Claire Mitchell of Eurodata TV Worldwide. While animation still makes up the bulk of children’s programming in terms of volume in most countries, live-action is becoming increasingly popular. Across the European countries of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and […]
Nickelodeon says Sam & Cat is more than a spin-off: it’s a double spin-off. It earns that status by virtue of having Jenette McCurdy and Ariana Grande in the same series. The teen stars, better known as the leads in iCarly and Victorious respectively, come together for this new live-action series. The doubling up theme […]
Viacom International Media Networks has sold a raft of Nickelodeon preschool series to broadcasters in Central and Eastern Europe. In the Czech Republic, free-to-air broadcaster TV Nova has acquired Penguins of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda while CT, the Czech public broadcaster, has bought Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The second season of Turtles has been […]
Nickelodeon’s long-serving Marjorie Cohn is exiting the kids’ cable channel after 26 years. The latest top level restructure at the Viacom-owned sees Cohn, currently Nick’s president of content development, opting to leave almost a year after she added animation and digital development to her live-action slate, following the departure of Browne Johnson. Nick’s president of […]
