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Zodiak Rights
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Banijay rebrands Zodiak Rights
France’s Banijay Group has rebranded its sales arm, Zodiak Rights, just under a year after…
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Raft of commissions for Channel 4
UK broadcaster Channel 4 unveiled a raft of new programming at its upfront in London…
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Raft of Secret Life of 4 Year Olds deals
The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds format has been picked up by broadcasters across…
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Fremantle prodco details claim against Banijay
FremantleMedia-backed Israeli prodco Abot Hameiri is claiming an initial £42,528 (US$52,700) from Banijay Group in…
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New deals for controversial Banijay format
All Against 1, the Banijay format at the centre of an IP dispute with FremantleMedia,…
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10 MIPCOM trends
MIPCOM has ended with no major dramas of the ash cloud, flood or industrial action…
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Winners crowned at TBI Content Innovation Awards
Gaumont Television, Zodiak Rights, Content Media and Fox UK were among the big winners at…
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Sky buys Belgian drama for UK, Germany
Sky has picked Public Enemy, taking the Belgian drama for its Sky Atlantic channels in…
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Distributor to doc producer with the Royal Good Guys
As career moves go, turning documentary producer after 27 years in distribution may seem odd, even…
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TBI DISTRIBUTOR SURVEY 2016: The rights fight
Getting the right rights at the right price. That’s the challenge for distributors in a…
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Baker moving to the UK for EasyTrack
Rights management business EasyTrack is setting up in the UK, with former Foxtel acquisitions boss…
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Wolf Creek to go Pop in US
Australian psychological drama Wolf Creek is heading to US cable channel Pop. Pop has licensed…
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TRX names Asian agency
Online deal brokering platform TRX has appointed the distribution arm of Vision New Media as…
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Humphrey to reunite with Namiech at Passion
Jimmy Humphrey will reunite with his former Banijay International boss Emmanuelle Namiech by joining UK-based…
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Steve Macallister leaves All3Media
All3Media’s International CEO Steve Macallister has left the company, TBI has learned. Macallister is a…
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Fox scoops UK Wolf Creek as Outcast goes big
Fox UK has bought Wolf Creek, the Australian series based on the eponymous horror movie…
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The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 – part IV
The TBI Scripted Survey 2016 reveals why, where and how the genre is evolving, tackling…
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Ex-Banijay sales exec joins New Flemish Primitives
Former Banijay International sales manager Siobhan Herriot is joining The Flemish Primitives as head of…
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BBC snaps up French drama
The BBC has acquired French drama series The Disappearance for its BBC Four channel. The…
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10 MIPTV takeaways: #8 a quiet drama
MIPTV’s answer to the international boom in high-end drama was the inaugural MIPDrama Screenings event…
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Fraud drama revealed after Panama papers
A thriller drama about high stakes money laundering is the first fruit of Zodiak Rights’…
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Ovation takes exclusive US rights to Versailles
US arts network Ovation TV has acquired exclusive local rights to French period drama Versailles….
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Zodiak Rights takes buyers to Wolf Creek
Zodiak Rights is taking Australian SVOD horror Wolf Creek to Cannes next week. The 6x60mins…
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Banijay sales staff set for Zodiak exit
Several of the Banijay International sales staff that transferred to Zodiak Rights are set to…
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Small World hires ex-Zodiak exec in rejig
Formats distributor Small World IFT has hired a former Zodiak Rights VP to become its…
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Lat Am, Euro nets coax Wild Things
Broadcasters in Argentina and Denmark are the latest buyers of Zodiak Rights-sold entertainment format Wild…
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Zodiak Rights in $150m scripted pact
Banijay Group’s sales arm, Zodiak Rights, has closed a deal with British writer-director David Raymond…
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TLC gets Undressed with Zodiak Rights format
TLC has ordered local versions of social experiment format Undressed. The female-skewing Discovery-owned cable net…
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Houlind takes Banijay Zodiak Nordic top job
Jacob Houlind has been named group CEO of a merged Nordic division at fledgling super-indie…
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Formats Ireland
Ireland is emerging as a solid format creating hotspot, as its small local market forces…