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Banijay has confirmed what has been unofficially known for months: that its distribution arm Banijay Rights will subsume Endemol Shine International following the two companies’ mega-merger. Cathy Payne was confirmed as the CEO of Banijay Rights in April after running  Endemol Shine International for nearly five…

Banijay Group has confirmed that Cathy Payne will become the CEO of its distribution arm Banijay Rights after she led Endemol Shine International for nearly five years. Deadline revealed back in March that Payne would take on the role at Banijay in somewhat of a surprise development after it was announced in October…

EXCLUSIVE: Darren Star's Younger is to be remade in Asia after Endemol Shine International struck a major scripted format deal with Korean producer JTBC Content Hub. The show, which was created by the Sex and the City creator and stars Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff, is the latest high-profile U.S. show to be remade on…

Acorn TV has acquired Dutch disappearance drama The Oldenheim Twelve from Endemol Shine International. The North American SVOD service has picked up the twelve-part series, which was originally commissioned by Dutch broadcaster RTL4. The show, which was written by Lex Passchier and Martin van Steijn and directed by…

Game of Thrones star Will Tudor is to star in a one-off drama about British skating legends Torvill and Dean. The actor, who starred as Olyvar in the HBO series between seasons three and five, will play Christopher Dean, alongside Ackley Bridge and Eve star Poppy Lee Friar as Jayne Torvill in the two-hour single…

The Huntman: Winter's War star Sheridan Smith is to front a Deuce-esque drama for UK broadcaster Channel 4. The British actor is to star in Adult Material, written by Chimerica playwright Lucy Kirkwood and produced by The Eddy and Guerilla producer Fifty Fathoms. The show is set in the modern porn industry from the…

British mini-series Gunpowder, which stars Game of Thrones' Kit Harrington and Liv Tyler, is blowing up around the world after distributor Endemol Shine International closed a raft of deals. It has sold the three-part series, which is produced by Kudos for BBC One and airs on HBO in the U.S., to RTL (Germany)…

Jennifer Smith has been appointed to the newly created post of Head of Diversity at the BFI. She will be responsible for leading diversity and inclusion across all BFI activities as part of the BFI2022 five-year strategy. This includes continuing the work of the BFI's Diversity Standards which have been adopted by…

In its second such move this week, BBC Worldwide is joining with a pair of UK execs to back a new indie banner. The former head of Channel 4's specialist factual programming, David Glover, and the co-MD of Shine Group's Dragonfly, Mark Raphael, are establishing 72 Films with a 15% interest from BBC WW. The commercial…

AMC’s Humans has an exclusive new streaming home. Endemol Shine International and Amazon said today that all eight episodes of the futuristic drama’s first season will be available on Amazon Prime in the spring. Produced by Kudos in association with Matador Films, the series based on the Swedish drama Real Humans sees…

Netflix has acquired exclusive international streaming rights to BBC’s River, a six-part thriller crime series from Endemol Shine International and Kudos written and created by Emmy-winning The Hour scribe Abi Morgan. Starring Stellan Skarsgård (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), River will premiere October 13 on BBC…

Endemol Shine International, the newly combined distribution entity of global TV giant Endemol Shine Group, has appointed Simon Cox as Head of Acquisitions. Cox most recently was Investment Manager at Ingenious Media, where he was responsible for deals on such scripted productions as ITV's The Frankenstein Chronicles…