PARIS: The Series Mania Festival's Co-Production Forum has received more than 200 projects from 33 different countries as entries for this year’s event, which will take place April 19 to 21 in Paris.
Read More »STUDIOCANAL Hires for International Production Team
PARIS: STUDIOCANAL has brought in Matthew Gledhill to serve as senior VP of international production.
Read More »Eccho Rights Staffs Up
STOCKHOLM: Eccho Rights has added two senior executives to its team, Dorit Schilling in Germany and Karin Strandberg Blom in Sweden.
Read More »Wolf Hall Leads BAFTA TV Nominations
LONDON: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has unveiled the nominations for this year's TV awards, which see the historical drama Wolf Hall leading with four nods.
Read More »Twofour Rights Adds to Sales Team
LONDON: Twofour Rights has appointed Rob Bassett as senior sales executive, managing sales within Scandinavia, Asia, the Middle East and Israel.
Read More »Sky Sports Lands Exclusive on F1 Races
LONDON: Sky Sports has agreed to a new partnership with Formula One Management, making the channel the exclusive home of F1 in the U.K. and Ireland from 2019 to 2024.
Read More »Sky & Mark Hollinger Take Stakes in Sugar Films
LONDON: Sky has picked up a minority stake in Sugar Films, which also received an investment from former Discovery Networks International president and CEO Mark Hollinger, who will become chairman.
Read More »Viaplay Introduces Electronic Sell-Through
STOCKHOLM: MTG's Nordic streaming-video platform Viaplay is launching a brand-new service for its subscribers: electronic sell-through (EST).
Read More »Mark Linsey Named Director of BBC Studios
LONDON: Mark Linsey has become the new director of BBC Studios, after having served as acting director of BBC Television since October 2015.
Read More »Discovery & NOS Sign Dutch Deal for Olympic Games
LONDON: Discovery Communications has inked a TV and multiplatform broadcast agreement with NOS in the Netherlands regarding the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games.
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