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EXCLUSIVE: In yet another sign of India’s growing appeal for the world’s content financiers, Chris Albrecht and Legendary’s TV venture Legendary Global is teaming with Library Pictures International to co-finance and produce two seasons of a Hindi-language series from Vikramaditya Motwane, creator of Netflix’s first…

Legendary Global, former HBO and Starz chief Chris Albrecht’s international TV venture with Legendary, has partnered with Spanish outfit ESPotlight to develop and produce more than 10 premium scripted shows a year. Their first project together is La Treintena, a six-part comedy-drama about four twentysomething women…

EXCLUSIVE: Rome and Generation Kill executive producer Anne Thomopoulos is reuniting with her former HBO boss Chris Albrecht at Legendary Global. Thomopoulos has joined the joint venture between Legendary and Albrecht as a partner, and comes from CAA's Global Television department. She has been tasked with focusing on…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Albrecht has teamed with Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter and Pose executive producer Sherry Marsh for Tokyo Underworld, a crime drama set in Japan. It marks one of the first projects for Legendary Global, the television venture between Legendary and Albrecht launched in December, which is…

Former Starz CEO Chris Albrecht has lined up his next gig — a production company targeting the global TV market. Albrecht will have a stake in the company, majority owned by Legendary. The company will function independently and separately from Legendary Television while Legendary will finance its slate and provide…

After reporting mixed results for its fiscal third quarter, Lionsgate executives offered Wall Street analysts an update on Starz as the premium network’s longtime chief, Chris Albrecht, gets set to exit the company in the coming weeks. Albrecht did not appear on today’s conference call with analysts, but earned a…

EXCLUSIVE: Starz CEO Chris Albrecht will depart next month after a decade at the company. Albrecht’s decision to step down comes two years after Starz’s acquisition by Lionsgate was completed amid the continued integration of the two companies. For the time being, Starz will move forward under COO Jeffrey Hirsch and…

Starz is keeping its Power broker in the family. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who stars in and exec produces that veteran crime drama, has signed a rich new overall deal with the premium cabler, Deadline has confirmed. Under the four-year pact  — that sees figures like $150 million being whispered and Starz CEO Chris Albr…

Bell Media and Starz have set an exclusive, long-term deal that will bring the U.S. premium network to Canada for the first time. The launch also marks the first on the international stage for Starz since the premium network was acquired by Lionsgate in December 2016, an important step in an increasingly global…

UPDATED with Altice response. As the Starz-Altice USA carriage dispute drags on, the Lionsgate-owned network has filed two separate petitions with the FCC that aim to force the cable company to restore it on New York-area Optimum systems. The No. 2 premium network has been dark for Optimum’s 4.9 million customers…

UPDATED with Altice’s response: In what has become a regular occurrence as TV networks and cable/satellite providers squabble over carriage fees, Starz's channels have been dark on Altice USA systems, servicing 4.9 subscribers, since January 1. Albrecht didn’t mince words about Altice and its management, blasting them…

Starz's big-budget drama American Gods has been making headlines in the past couple of months with the surprise exit of the masterminds behind the genre series, executive producers/showrunners Michael Green and Bryan Fuller, who created the adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 2001 award-winning novel. It was followed by…