All International articles – Page 516

  • News

    Zigby set for CBeebies

    2009-04-14T12:21:45Z

    CBeebies has secured the rights to a new CGI-animated series based on an adventurous zebra.

  • News

    Current TV cancels float due to 'market conditions'

    2009-04-14T10:51:14Z

    Current TV, the Al Gore-backed UGC broadcaster, has cancelled its plan to raise $100m (£67m) by floating on Nasdaq.

  • News

    ITV's Primeval to get Hollywood treatment

    2009-04-14T09:53:56Z

    Impossible Pictures has teamed up with US film studio Warner Bros to turn ITV1 dinosaur drama Primeval into a Hollywood movie.

  • News

    Tudors to return for fourth and final season

    2009-04-14T09:37:07Z

    Historical drama The Tudors is to bow out after a fourth and final series next year.

  • News

    ITV confirms Iacono exit

    2009-04-14T00:09:20Z

    ITV president and managing director of global entertainment, Peter Iacono has left the broadcaster after just over a year in the post, the broadcaster has confirmed.

  • News

    ITV to air fewer acquisitions

    2009-04-08T11:54:08Z

    ITV has revealed it will show fewer internationally produced shows in the coming years as director of acquisitions Jay Kandola prepares to leave the broadcaster in June.

  • News

    Shine to head down under

    2009-04-08T10:44:06Z

    Elisabeth Murdoch's Shine Group has hired Fremantle Media Australia chiefs Mark and Carl Fennessy to head up a new Australian division.

  • News

    ITV Global seeks 50% co-pro deal on format sales

    2009-04-08T08:37:48Z

    ITV Global Entertainment will only sell formats to international broadcasters or producers if it can agree at least a 50% co-production credit for the shows.

  • News

    Rival Media wins RTE2 agony aunt show

    2009-04-08T08:30:37Z

    Rival Media will ask youngsters to act as agony aunts in one of a pair of commissions from Irish channel RTÉ2.

  • Features

    The Buyer: Karrie Wolfe

    2009-04-07T15:17:17Z

    Karrie Wolfe is senior vice president of RDF USA.

  • News

    Russia to air Hudson plane crash doc

    2009-04-07T15:11:23Z

    Darlow Smithson Production's (DSP) fast turnaround documentary Miracle of the Hudson Plane Crash has been sold to Channel One in Russia.

  • News

    Parthenon wins myth series commission

    2009-04-07T14:13:28Z

    Parthenon Entertainment has won its biggest series commission to date, a 13 x 30-minute series for National Geographic Channels International that will debunk the myths surrounding famous historical figures.

  • News

    Target takes Josef Fritzl doc global

    2009-04-07T14:02:38Z

    Target Entertainment has sold Sky 1 documentary Josef Fritzl: Story of a Monster to eight broadcasters around the world.

  • News

    Antonioni quits ITV brands role

    2009-04-07T13:56:42Z

    ITV Global Entertainment's commercial brands director Gustavo Antonioni has left the broadcaster after taking voluntary redundancy.

  • News

    DLT to take C4 execs to the US for drama

    2009-04-07T13:51:25Z

    The indie behind My Family is flying a pair of Channel 4 executives out to Los Angeles to thrash out ideas for a drama penned by a US writing team.

  • Comment

    Blog: Russian reality

    2009-04-07T11:51:02Z

    Award-winning producer Ciuin Doherty went on an incredible journey travelling to Moscow to adapt formats such as Wife Swap, The Block and Identity for Russian viewers. It is a tale that features porn stars, warring couples and plenty of vodka.

  • Ratings

    ER ends with 16.2m

    2009-04-06T09:31:25Z

    After 15 years of emergencies, operations and shocks, ER came to an end in the US with a strong 16.2m viewers.

  • News

    Five's Roary racing to Canada

    2009-04-02T12:06:39Z

    MipTV: Five preschool series Roary the Racing Car is on the road to Canada following a deal with Treehouse TV.

  • News

    Fremantle: UK format dominance is waning

    2009-04-02T09:16:02Z

    FremantleMedia senior executive vice-president of entertainment Rob Clark has warned that the UK's dominance of the formats business will slip in the face of stronger competition from abroad.

  • News

    Sky Real Lives to air US reality show Diet Tribe

    2009-04-02T09:12:46Z

    Sky Real Lives has acquired a reality weight loss series that originally broadcast on US cable network Lifetime.