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Fremantle hires scripted trio including ex-Weinstein Co. exec
FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) has added three industry veterans to its scripted division, including Oliver…
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TBI Weekly: Beauty is power for Netflix
This week, it was impossible to ignore Netflix’s seemingly unstoppable rise as the company’s value…
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Sky moves into original films in latest content push
Sky has announced plans to commission and acquire exclusive rights to original films, in its…
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Hollywood Squares heads to India via Viu
Indian on-demand service and affiliate pay TV network Star MAA are working up a local…
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Paramount & Anonymous land rights to Margaret Atwood trilogy
Paramount Television, along with Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to develop a series based…
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Mark Burnett’s Contender boxes clever with Epix reboot
The Mark Burnett-created boxing reality series The Contender is returning to US television screens after…
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UKTV plotting to increase indie original hours by a third
British channels group UKTV is planning to increase the number of hours it commissions from…
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T Group goes Everywhere with copro deal
US-based T Group Productions has signed an overall coproduction deal with Everywhere Studios, which is…
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Sharon Horgan’s Merman hires Fremantle production head
Merman, the production company founded by Catastrophe’s Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford, has appointed FremantleMedia…
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Netflix picks up talk show from Community’s Joel McHale
Joel McHale, the former star of NBC/Yahoo comedy Community, is set to host a new…