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Türksat Adds SPI Channels

The largest cable operator in Turkey, Türksat/Kablo TV, has added eight channels from SPI International, includng the FilmBox Live VoD service. The acquired channels are FUNBOX UHD, FilmBox Turkey, FilmBox (…)

By |January 16th, 2017|Categories: News|0 Comments

SHOWTIME Offers Preview of Special Agent Dale Cooper of ‘Twin Peaks’

SHOWTIME has shared a brief preview of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper’s return to Twin Peaks. Directed by David Lynch, the new SHOWTIME 18-part series is set 25 years after the mysterious (…)

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eOne Acquires TV Rights For ‘The Architecture of Heaven’

Entertainment One (eOne) announced that it has secured the television rights for Holly Cave’s upcoming novel The Architecture of Heaven, which becomes available in 2018 via Quercus Books. Acting as the (…)

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TRT World Expands Satellite Distribution

TRT signed an agreement with broadcast company Globecast and Turkey’s first satellite operator Türksat to increase the reach of the English-language international news platform TRT World. With a global reach of 190 countries (…)

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GRB Announces Sales To Discovery

GRB Entertainment announced sales to Discovery for their Latin America and US Hispanic channels at NATPE Miami. Both acquired several seasons of Untold Stories of the E.R. and Discovery Latin America picked (…)

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Lionsgate Signs International Deals For ‘Kicking & Screaming’

Lionsgate has signed an international format deal for its upcoming reality series Kicking & Screaming. Format rights for France, Denmark, Italy, Finland, Norway and Sweden have been licensed to the international (…)

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Up The Ladder

Entertainment One (eOne) welcomes Christian Fritzsche as new vice president of International Sales. Fritzsche will be managing the exploitation of eOne’s new and existing content to Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. (…)

By |January 13th, 2017|Categories: News|0 Comments

‘Mad Men’ Archive Donated to UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center

Lionsgate and Mad Men series creator Matthew Weiner have donated the series’ archive to the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library at The University of Texas at Austin. The donation includes (…)

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STARZ Play and Fox TV Dist. Sign Deal

STARZ Play has formed an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to provide its movies and series to the service’s subscribers within countries across the Middle East and North Africa. (…)

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Lionsgate Partners With Jeff Apploff To Develop Nonscripted Series

Lionsgate and executive producer Jeff Apploff have signed a deal for the development of original nonscripted series and formats for Lionsate Television through Apploff Entertainment. As part of the agreement, (…)

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