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Fox’s Utopia experiment over
US broadcaster Fox has cancelled big-budget social experiment format Utopia. Just two months after the…
RTL4 sees The Big Picture
Dutch-based broadcaster RTL4 has become the first network to commission a version of Israeli-created game…
Discovery weighs SBS Netherlands move
Discovery is understood to be considering a move for the SBS free-to-air broadcast business in…
SBS names Sanoma exec as CEO
Dutch broadcaster SBS Broadcasting has appointed Peter de Mönnink as its new CEO, as part…
Ziad Kebbi on SPT Arabia departure
Ziad Kebbi says it was his departure from Sony Pictures Television Arabia, which both sides…
Sony scales back Middle East production, Kebbi exiting
Sony Pictures Television Arabia’s president Ziad Kebbi is exiting the business as part of a…
Talpa poaches FremantleMedia exec in int’l restructure
John de Mol’s Talpa Media has re-hired FremantleMedia’s Diana Buddingh for a newly-restructured international division,…
News brief: SBS6 continues to see Danni Lowinski
Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS6 has ordered a third season of its remake of German scripted…
Spodsberg to swap Banijay Int’l for Nordisk return
Banijay International’s managing director Karoline Spodsberg is to move up to COO of Banijay Group’s…
Canadian channel seeks format Utopia
Canada has become the sixth territory to get a local version of Talpa Media’s buzzy…