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NewsMiramax expands international sales team, inks UKTV deal
Mathilde Rottier gets promotion; Stuart Shaw, Astrid De Berardinis and Alexandra Tullberg join London office as sales directors; outfit inks first multi-title, linear deal in UK.
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Paramount launches film channel in Spain
Available on free to air TV, the new channel will feature more than 600 films.
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NewsViasat appoints Jakob Mejlhede svp acquisitions and programming
Mejlhede responsible for all of Viasat’s centralised programming acquisition and content development for its free-TV and pay-TV channels.
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NewsBudget set to grant tax breaks for UK TV drama
The campaign to secure tax breaks for high-end UK drama looks set for victory,with sources suggesting the Chancellor will announce the scheme in next week’s Budget.
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NewsBBC confirms pay TV download service
The BBC will submit proposals for a paid-for TV download service to the Trust this year, it has revealed.
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NewseOne to ramp up TV co-productions, Peter Emerson relocates to London
Entertainment One (eOne) looks to ramp international co-productions with expanded European focus.
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NewsOrigin develops scripts with Greenhalgh, Towhidi, Graham
EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s Origin Pictures is working across an exciting slate of film and TV projects including a The Wire-style crime-drama set in Manchester from Matt Greenhalgh and an adaptation of recently optioned PD James novel Death Comes to Pemberley.
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NewsSky Atlantic books Richard E Grant hotel series
Richard E Grant is to front a “luxurious” travel series for Sky Atlantic that marks the first commission for Clive Tulloh’s new indie.
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NewsMarton Csokas, Hayley Atwell to star in Sky Atlantic's Falcon
The two part production is based on Robert Wilson’s bestselling detective novels and will be Sky Atlantic’s second UK original drama commission following Hit + Miss.
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NewsBBCW teams with HBO for atomic bomb drama
Jane Tranter’s LA division of BBC Worldwide Productions is working with HBO to develop a high-profile dramatisation of Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
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NewsGaumont launches LA-based TV division
Katie O’Connell and Richard Frankie tapped as CEO and COO; high end dramas in the works
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NewsSundance Channel launches in five more territories
Sundance TV and VOD offering extends to Greece, Taiwan among others
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NewsMIPTV wraps with key deals
Interconnectivity and the monetising of splintering platforms were buzz themes at this year’s MIPTV, which also saw a number of deals on starry product.