“Chicago Med” to Headline at Monte-Carlo TV Festival
This year’s Monte-Carlo Television Festival will open on June 12th with first episode of Dick Wolf’s drama series Chicago Med, Laurent Puons, CEO of the Festival, announced today. Chicago (…)
The Netherland’s Public TV NPO Acquires “Harlan Coben’s The Five”
STUDIOCANAL has sealed a deal for Harlan Coben’s The Five with Dutch Public TV NPO. The RED produced series, an original commission for Sky1, stars Tom Cullen, O-T Fagbenle, (…)
Up the Ladder: Global Agency
Nassima Boudi has been named head of Research at Turkey’s Global Agency. Boudi will be responsible for discovering new and unique content from across the world for Global Agency’s content, (…)
Fourth Season for Amazon’s “Transparent”
Ahead of its third season premiere, Amazon has renewed Transparent for a fourth season. Creator Jill Soloway will keep the role as showrunner, along with executive producer Andrea Sperling. The (…)
RTL Picks up Talpa’s “The Wishing Tree”
The Wishing Tree, Talpa’s heartwarming format, has recently been acquired by RTL in French-speaking Belgium. After its launch in the Netherlands, The Wishing Tree was also acquired by VTM (…)
Netflix Orders 80s Women Wrestling Series from Jenji Kohan
Netflix has ordered a 10-episode comedy series G.L.O.W. from Orange Is the New Black creator/executive producer Jenji Kohan and co-producer Tara Herrmann. G.L.O.W. was inspired by the true story of (…)
Shonda Rhimes Named Mipcom’s Person of the Year
Shonda Rhimes, creator and writer of Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and Private Practice, will be honored at Mipcom in Cannes this year, where she will receive the Personality of the (…)
Canal+ Founder Andre Rousselet Dies at 93
Andre Rousselet, the founder of Canal Plus, passed away last Sunday at his home in Paris, at the age of 93. Rousselet started his career as a magistrate, before becoming (…)
Squeeze’s “Cracké” Premieres on Disney
Disney EMEA has acquired Squeeze’s TV series Cracké. Starting June 2016, 52 one-minute episodes will air across the Disney Channel multiplex in close to 100 countries and territories of (…)
SPI Inks Distribution Deal With Nigeria’s Digitune Media
SPI International/Filmbox International is continuing its African expansion by launching eight FilmBox brand channels and FilmBox Live on demand service with Digitune Media Technologies. FilmBox Africa, FilmBox Art House, FightBox, (…)