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NewsSky, Warner Bros Discovery thrash out deal for Max UK launch
As part of the deal, the legal matters between the companies relating to the Potter series have been settled.
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NewsSister’s Jane Featherstone on ‘Kaos’ cancellation and her mission to “make mainstream fashionable again”
Featherstone anticipates a return to less risky, long-form TV comissioning, with pure TV talent attached: ”Movie stars don’t want to do a TV schedule.”
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NewsFinnish series project ‘The Women I Think About At Night’ leads Tallinn TV Beats winners
German project ‘In Paradise’ wins new Public Favourite award.
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NewsNetflix execs tout ‘Bullet Train Explosion’, ‘The Leopard’, ‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’ at first international showcase
Chief content officer Bela Bajaria and leadership team introduced first International Showcase in Hollywood.
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NewsFrench broadcasters and film groups create body to protect France’s audiovisual sector
La Filière Audiovisuelle (LaFA) unites rival broadcasters in the face of rapid industry change.
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NewsUK SVoD ad tier usage grows
Barb survey showed that the number of UK homes on the Netflix ad tier had risen by 37% in Q3.
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NewsScreenworks Asia adds ‘Marriage Exposed’ to its slate at Taiwan Creative Content Fest
The Taiwanese company also unveiled starry cast for series two of buzzy ‘The World Between Us’.
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NewsSee-Saw Films appoints M&A specialist to explore sale or investment
Broadcast has learned the company has appointed M&A specialist investment bank ACF to assess its options for the future.
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NewsApple TV+’s ‘Sunny’ starring Rashida Jones cancelled after one season (exclusive)
The mystery drama from A24 was filmed in Japan.
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NewsCádiz’s South International Series Festival unveils fiction and non-fiction competitions
The second edition of the series event has secured 12 world premieres of fiction and non-fiction works.
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NewsKetchup Entertainment partners with Zero Gravity Management on new high-end TV division (exclusive)
Ketchup to distribute slate. Partners anticipate releasing inaugural series by mid-2025.
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NewsMax launch confirmed for seven Asian territories in November
The streaming service is heading to Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong among others.
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NewsNetflix’s ‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’ to debut in December
Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation employed a crew of hundreds, and more than 20,000 extras.
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News‘Baby Reindeer’ lawsuit can go ahead, rules judge
Source: Netflix ‘Baby Reindeer’ A US-based judge has ruled that Fiona Harvey’s £132m case against Netflix drama Baby Reindeer can be pursued on the grounds of defamation after the show was wrongly billed as a “true story.” Judge Gary Klausner noted that the show’s opening episode begins ...
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NewsSky sues Warner over ‘Harry Potter’ series and Max co-funding deal
The European pay TV giant says deal breaches cost it “hundreds of millions of dollars” of lost revenue.
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NewsBanijay, All3Media heads on the appeal of Europe as a production hub
“There’s also the necessity from the platform side to find more cost-effective ways of making programming.”
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NewsUK culture secretary: centralisation of TV industry should “shame us all”
“If you aren’t commissioning content from every part of the country – towns and villages as well as major cities – why not?”
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News76th Emmy Awards is latest live US entertainment ceremony to see viewership rise
Audience reaches highest level in three years, climbs 60% over strike-delayed January ceremony.
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News‘Shogun’, ‘The Bear’ dominate 76th Emmy Awards
‘Hacks’ delivers upset in comedy series category.
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NewsRealness Institute selects writers from Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa for AuthenticA Series Lab (exclusive)
The six-month lab supports writers to develop their series ideas into pilot scripts.