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Netflix ‘planning French original series’

Netflix will commission an exclusive drama series in France next year following the launch of…

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Telefónica moves for Mediaset’s Canal+ stake

Telefónica has offered €295 million (US$400 million) to acquire Mediaset’s 22% stake in Spanish pay…

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Ex-MTG boss resurfaces at C More

TV4 Group-owned Swedish pay TV channel provider C More has named former Modern Times Group…

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Deal for pan-European Sky moves forward

UK pay TV operator BSkyB has hired Morgan Stanley and Barclays to advise on its…

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Dutch broadcasters take on Netflix with SVOD service

A new Dutch subscription video-on-demand service, NLziet, has launched, with a range of programmes from…

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MTG writes down Ukraine pay service

European broadcaster Modern Times Group has decided to write down the value of its Ukrainian…

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Telefónica seals €750m deal for Canal+ Spain

Prisa and Telefónica have definitively agreed the sale of Prisa’s 56% stake in pay TV…

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Erik Huggers exiting Verizon

Erik Huggers, the former chief of Intel’s OTT TV initiative, is to leave Verizon five…

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Turner Laing leaving Sky after 11 years

UK satcaster BSkyB’s managing director of content, Sophie Turner Laing, is to step down from…

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Sony and Disney sell FilmFlex VOD service

Video platform provider and content aggregator Vubiquity has acquired UK-based white label video-on-demand provider FilmFlex….