All International articles – Page 379
-
NewsShed Media US boosts development team
The US arm of Shed Media has boosted its development team with the hire of two execs including Firecracker Films exec Dan Snook.
-
NewsBBC2 acquires ‘German Band of Brothers’
BBC2 has picked up its first foreign language drama since 2001 – a series dubbed the German Band of Brothers.
-
NewsTV3 takes Bake Off to Ireland
Irish broadcaster TV3 is to launch a local version of The Great British Bake Off as part of its autumn schedule.
-
NewsKeo launches Australian division
Keo Films is to expand its business into Australia after securing a recommission of River Cottage Australia.
-
NewsRaw Cut extends Foxtel blue-light deal
Raw Cut’s distribution arm has sold World’s Craziest Police Pursuits to Australian broadcaster Foxtel.
-
NewsCarnival eyes US with NBCU hire
Carnival Films is building on the success of Downton Abbey in the US with the hire of NBC Universal production boss Deborah Oppenheimer.
-
NewsBBC4 buys Martin Luther King doc
BBC4 has acquired a Martin Luther King Jr documentary ahead of the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights march in Washington DC.
-
NewsRTL & CBS launch Asian channels
RTL and CBS have formed a joint venture to roll out two English-language channels across Asia featuring a raft of US and UK shows.
-
NewsWeather That Changed The World heads to Yesterday
UKTV has acquired Passion Distribution’s Weather That Changed The World for Yesterday.
-
NewsNetflix effect helps Breaking Bad double viewers
Breaking Bad more than doubled its US audience to 6m viewers for Sunday’s final series launch - with show creator Vince Gilligan chalking up the show’s success to the explosion of VoD services.
-
NewsBBCW poaches ITV's Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan
BBC Worldwide has taken over the international rights to the Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan from ITV Studios Global Entertainment after C5 confirmed it will not air the second series.
-
NewsCBS greenlights Steven Spielberg space series
US network CBS has ordered sci-fi series Extant from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television to air next summer.
-
NewsNetflix cues up Dutch dance doc
Netflix has acquired a feature-length documentary about Dutch dance music from UK factual distributor Journeyman Pictures.
-
NewsITV Studios to take Coach Trip to Germany
Factual entertainment formats Coach Trip and May The Best House Win are to be remade in Germany after ITV Studios closed deals with two broadcasters.
-
NewsBBCW cooks up series for Khoo
BBC Worldwide has ordered two 10-part cookery series fronted by chef Rachel Khoo as part of its move to commission 150 hours of original content by 2014/15.
-
News
Shine and Barcroft strike development deal
Shine International has trumped a raft of rival distributors to ink a first-look development and distribution deal with Barcroft Productions, coproducer of Channel 4’s Girl With Eight Limbs and Nat Geo’s My Child Is A Monkey.
-
NewsTrue North lands major Chinese deal
True North is planning for a major expansion into China after securing a three-part series with state broadcaster CCTV9.
-
NewsParamount steps up TV push
Paramount Pictures is aggressively expanding into television, in a move that could result in the creation of another major TV player in Hollywood.
-
NewsInternational networks investigate Broadchurch
Broadchurch is to travel around the world after Shine International closed a raft of deals.
-
NewsNetflix moves into local commissioning
Netflix is moving to produce lower-cost local programming internationally for the first time and has commissioned its first major project outside of the US.