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Shed staffs up for US reality

Warner Bros.-owned Shed Media has hired two new programming executives as it seeks to ramp up its reality programming activity in the US. Dan Snook (above) joins Shed Media US from Firecracker Films where he was senior VP, development, working on shows including Gypsy Sisters for Lifetime and Zombie Apocalypse for Discovery. At Shed he […]

Tim Kring joins Sonar board

Heroes creator Tim Kring is one of two new board members for US production and distribution company Sonar Entertainment. Kring began working with Sonar earlier this year on a new multi-platform project called The Drake Equation. He and former Warner Bros. and Paramount Digital president Tom Lesinski have now joined the company’s board. Kring is […]

News brief: NBCU cuts Polish VOD deal

Polish pay TV operator Cyfrowy Polsat has signed a deal with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution to distribute its films through its VOD service and its OTT platform ipla. The deal covers recent blockbusters such as Les Miserables as well as older titles like Mama Mia, Inglourious Basterds and American Gangster. The deal follows recent VOD […]

Sky Living announces new pilots in drama drive

Sky Living HD has ordered two new pilots and announced big name cast additions for previously announced projects as part of an ongoing push into original drama. The pair of new offerings from the UK pay TV network, which is part of BSkyB’s channel portfolio, are Lawless and The Psychopath Next Door (pictured). Lawless will […]

Ex-Warner Bros TV boss Rosenblum resurfaces at Legendary

Bruce Rosenblum, until last month the boss of Warner Bros’ TV activities, has become president of Legendary Television and Digital Media. Legendary is best known as a movie producer and counts Man of Steel and The Dark Knight and The Hangover franchises among its credits. It has a longstanding production pact with Warner Bros., which […]

TV M&A specialist acquires rival in int’l push

About Corporate Finance, the television-focused M&A firm that has overseen deals including Tinopolis’ acquisition of A Smith & Co and Sony’s acquisition of Left Bank Pictures, has bought rival Mediatique’s corporate finance unit. The deal will help ACF expand its advisory business into the US TV production market, which is said to be fertile ground for […]

ProSieben buys Warner Bros. entertainment formats

ProSiebenSat.1 has picked up a pair of formats from Warner Bros. The German free-to-air broadcaster has taken rights to Barely Legal Drivers and Date Night from Warner Bros. International Television Production. The Barely Legal Drivers format puts young drivers to the test. They take to the road for the first time in a car rigged […]

Warner unveils company-wide top level shake-up

Warner Bros.’ new chief exec Kevin Tsujihara has made his stamp on the company’s television division by handing Peter Roth a new creative role and Jeffrey Schlesinger and Craig Hunegs new titles as part of a major company-wide restructure. Tsujihara was named Warner Bros. CEO earlier this year and initiated a company-wide restructure that this […]

US Hispanic net cooks up Breaking Bad remake

US Hispanic channel Univision has partnered with Sony Pictures Television to create a Spanish-language version of Breaking Bad, the universally acclaimed AMC drugs distribution drama. Metástasis is the first recreation of the US cable series (pictured), in which Bryan Cranston plays a dying Albuquerque science teacher-turned-crystal meth manufacturer. The Spanish language series will see Diego […]

CBS sees future in Better Lives, kills CSI:NY

Leading US broadcast network CBS has taken comedy Friends with Better Lives to series, but has dropped the long running CSI: NY and Rules of Engagement. Friends… is billed as being about a group of 30-somethings, each one of which thinks the others have better prospects. The sitcom comes from Kapital Entertainment and 20th Century Fox […]

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