RTVE Picks Up ZDF’s TV Movie Package
The Spanish broadcaster RTVE has purchased a package of TV movies from Germany-based ZDF Enterprises. In addition to classic series such as A Summer in … and Katie (…)
Cosme Lopez to Leave Cisneros
Cisneros Media has announced Cosme Lopez’s decision to leave the company, after more than 15 years of service in Cisneros’ Pay TV unit. Lopez began his career in 1993, (…)
VIP 2000 TV and 7A Sign Distribution Deal
VIP 2000 TV and 7A Media will join forces for a distribtuion agreement. As part of the deal, 7A Media will handle worldwide sales outside of the Americas (…)
Up the Ladder: Good Deed Entertainment, Banijay Zodiak Nordic Group
Good Deed Entertainment has elevated Nikki Stier to head of Production for the company’s expanding slate of production commitments, which will be announced soon. Prior to joining GDE as director od Development (…)
Shooting Begins for Caracol’s “Digging for Love”
Filming has started for Colombia-based Caracol Television’s Digging for Love, a comedy that tells the story of the Murcia and the Otero families. Silvio Murcia and Efrain Otero are (…)
Red Arrow and Smuggler Invest in Cove Pictures
Germany’s Red Arrow International and Patrick Milling-Smith and Brian Carmody’s U.K.-based production and talent company, Smuggler, have launched Cove Pictures. The new TV production company will produce high-end drama (…)
“Roots” World Premiere at MIPTV
A+E Studios’ Roots, a portrait of American slavery, will make its international premiere on the opening night of MIPTV in Cannes on April 4. Based on Alex Haley’s 1976 (…)
BBC Orders Season Six of “Death in Paradise”
Red Planet Pictures’ crime drama, Death In Paradise has been greenlit for a sixth season by BBC One. The fifth season, which concludes its eight-week run this evening, launched in January (…)
Up the Ladder: Riedel, RR Media
Riedel Communications, real-time video, audio, and data provider has hired broadcast-industry veteran Joe Commare (pictured) as marketing and sales manager, North America. Commare will create and enact new marketing strategies, targeted at (…)
Filmbox Expands Distribution Deal with FilmOn TV Networks
SPI International/Filmbox have added three ethnic channels and an interactive gaming channel to its agreement with global internet TV provider FilmOn TV Networks. The new, extended SPI channel lineup on (…)