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Walter Presents heads down The River
On-demand service Walter Presents has acquired rights to new Norwegian drama The River in the…
Nordic pubcasters combine to fight SVOD threat
Public broadcasters in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland are forming an alliance to combat…
Global pubcasters prep online distribution platform
A group of public broadcasters from Europe, Asia and North America are joining forces to…
Euro nets bring in Ollie & Moon
Two European channels have acquired Cottonwood Media’s kids TV toon The Ollie & Moon Show….
BBCWW takes Bowie film global
HBO has bought David Bowie: The Last Five Years, the BBC feature doc about the…
Sky and Scandis buy Babylon Berlin
Beta Film has sealed a raft of deals for Babylon Berlin, the upcoming €40 million…
Ran Telem sets up first ever Finland/Spain drama
Drama exec Ran Telem is working up a Finnish-Spanish crime drama. Former Keshet exec Telem…
Nurses producer Yellow hires ex-YLE drama chief
Nurses creator Yellow Film & Television has a new chief creative officer in the shape…
German pubcaster joins blue-chip BBC series
German pubcaster WDR will coproduce BBC natural history series Ocean. WDR is already a coproducer…
YLE ploughs extra €20m to high-end drama
Finnish pubcaster YLE is a locate an extra €20 million (US$22.8 million) into high-end drama…
BBC First, CBC hear The A Word
BBC First is Australia and CBC in Canada are the latest buyers of Keshet International-sold…
TV4 recruits Finnish Nurses for format
Swedish commercial channel TV4 is to remake Finnish drama Nurses following a deal with distributor…
Hoho plots Grid partnership
UK kids firm Hoho Entertainment has entered into a coproduction agreement with Belgium indie counterpart…
CBC, SVT buy Lanzmann doc
Pubcasters in Europe and North America are the latest to buy Adam Benzine’s documentary Claude…
New early learning app buys Irish toon
A new interactive content app for preschoolers, Curious World, has acquired Monster Entertainment-sold toon The…
Canal+ buys Russian athletics doping doc
French pay TV service Canal+ has acquired Doping – Top Secret: the Shadowy World of…
News brief: Chinese VOD net add Turtles
Chinese on-demand video site Tencent has acquired seasons one and two of Viacom’s Tenage Mutant…
NHK, Canal+ buy Escape From ISIS doc
NHK in Japan and France’s Canal+ are among buyers of Escape From ISIS. ZDF (Germany),…
Nordic pubcasters urges UK gov’t to back BBC
Director generals from the Nordic region’s pubcasters have warned the British government not to weaken…
French, Scandi nets buy CBeebies series
Gulli and Tiji in France are among the latest buyers of DHX Media-sold CBeebies kids…
Disney buys Amazon kids series
Disney has picked up Amazon’s original kids series Annedroids. Canada-based distributor Picture Box sells the…
Smithsonian buys Irish music special
Smithsonian Channel has acquired the latest special of Irish music series Other Voices. The one-hour…
Korean toon trio at Cartoon Forum
European animation coproduction event Cartoon Forum will this year feature a trio of toons from…
BBC Follows the Money with Danish drama deal
Follow the Money (Bedraget) has become the latest foreign-language drama acquired by UK public broadcaster…
Trapped marks Icelandic drama first for the BBC
UK public broadcaster the BBC has bought Trapped, the upcoming Icelandic drama from local filmmaker Baltasar…
Ken Burns cancer series finds buyers
Four channels have taken on a PBS documentary series from filmmaker Ken Burns about cancer….
Broadcasters get Banished
BBC Worldwide has sold drama series Banished to various broadcasters. Deals have been closed with…
Broomfield’s Sleeper awakens channels
Nick Broomfield’s latest documentary, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, has sold to broadcasters in Australia,…
RTÉ, YLE in tune with Hozier music doc
Ireland’s RTÉ and Finland’s YLE are among buyers of an Other Voices strand special on…
News brief: North Europe, Belgian nets go Deep
A pair of Scandinavian channels, one from Finland and one from Belgium have boarded Technicolor’s…