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PREMIUM: Herbert G. Kloiber, Tele München Group’s (TMG) chairman, and Herbert L. Kloiber, the company’s managing director, speak to World Screen about the kind of programming that is best suited to today’s multiplatform world. WS: Tell us about your production business. What do you have in the pipeline? HGK: Our …

LONDON: The BBC has published a new study, carried out by research firm MTM, that finds that households living without the pubcaster for nine days would prefer to pay the license fee and keep the service. In an attempt to investigate the value audiences get from the BBC, 70 households …

LONDON: AMC’s U.K. channel, which is set to launch August 28 on the BT platform, has unveiled a programming lineup that includes the new drama Fear the Walking Dead. That series’ first episode will be made available free of charge to all audiences on the BT Showcase channel on August …

EDINBURGH: British TV writing duo Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran are aligning with Corona TV’s Richard Johns and Rupert Jermyn in a new joint venture, LocomoTV, which has already tied up with FremantleMedia. The new company will create original scripted programming intended for mainstream audiences all over the world. LocomoTV …

LONDON: Channel 5 has acquired the original TV magic show Penn & Teller: Fool Us in Vegas. The 13×1-hour series is hosted by Jonathan Ross and filmed at the Penn & Teller Theatre at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. Each episode features four magicians who test the magical insight …

LUXEMBOURG: Net profit attributable to RTL Group shareholders was up 73.8 percent to 351 million euros ($394 million), with digital showing dynamic growth. Reported Group revenue was up 3.8 percent to 2.8 billion euros ($3.1 billion) thanks to strongly increasing revenue at Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, growing digital revenue and favorable …

LONDON: FremantleMedia has acquired a 62.5 percent holding in Wildside, which is currently producing The Young Pope, with the opportunity to purchase the remaining shareholding in the future. The Young Pope is a joint Sky, HBO and Canal+ production, directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Jude Law and Diane Keaton. …

GLASGOW: STV Productions and GroupM Entertainment have teamed up to establish a strategic development partnership that will see the two firms co-invest, co-develop and co-produce concepts across a range of genres. The focus of the agreement will be on the creation of new entertainment, factual and drama projects that will …

UNTERFÖHRING: ProSieben MAXX has extended its agreement with A+E Networks to acquire additional programming, including new episodes of Duck Dynasty. In addition to new episodes of the reality series Duck Dynasty from seasons four and five, ProSieben MAXX picked up season one of The Legend of Shelby the Swamp Man. ProSieben …

LONDON: BBC One has unveiled a range of new commissions, including an as-yet-untitled drama from Oscar-winner Steve McQueen and a musical series using Motown tunes. That 6×1-hour series will span three decades in the lives of members of a West Indian community in London, starting in 1968 at the moment …