UNIVERSAL CITY: The comedy The Good Place has been given an order for a 13-episode second season by NBC.
Read More »ITV Studios America Installs Head of Production
SHERMAN OAKS: ITV Studios America has hired Dwayne Shattuck as the company's executive VP of production, effective immediately.
Read More »RTL Group to Explore “Strategic Alternatives” for BroadbandTV
LUXEMBOURG: RTL Group has decided not to exercise its option to acquire the remaining 49-percent shareholding in BroadbandTV, but rather will explore "all strategic alternatives" for the internet video company.
Read More »Discovery & Sky Reach New Deal
LONDON: Discovery and Sky have managed to agree on terms of a new carriage pact, preventing a potential channel blackout.
Read More »Globo Novela Hidden Truths Heads to Vietnam
SÃO PAULO: The Globo telenovela Hidden Truths has been picked up in Vietnam, where it will broadcast on the free-to-air channel HTV9 starting February 9.
Read More »Eleventh Hour Films Adds to Senior Development Team
LONDON: Eleventh Hour Films, the producer behind New Blood and Foyle's War, has brought in Mike Ellen to serve as head of development.
Read More »Zoomin.TV Invests in German Operation
AMSTERDAM: Zoomin.TV, part of MTG, has made an investment of more than €2 million ($2 million) to support its Generation Z strategy in Germany, appointing former Clipkit CEO Cengiz Kurt to lead Zoomin.TV Deutschland as part of this initiative.
Read More »FremantleMedia Restructures U.K. Production Business
LONDON: FremantleMedia is bringing its entertainment and factual labels Thames, Boundless and Talkback under one genre umbrella, allowing them to more easily combine their expertise and work together.
Read More »EFM Spotlight: ZDF Enterprises
BERLIN: Ken Duken stars in the Berlin-set crime series Tempel, on offer from ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE).
Read More »British TV Exports Top £1.3 Billion in Sales
LONDON: The latest international revenue figures show current sales for British TV programming at more than £1.3 billion ($1.6 billion), up 10 percent year on year.
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