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John Malone has completed a selloff of his stake in Lionsgate, with the studio’s chairman Mark Rachesky agreeing to purchase 2,399,571 Class A voting shares from the media mogul and his personal affiliated entities for $22.05 million. Malone previously sold off a total of 517,437 Class A voting shares between…

All3Media, the international production company owned by Discovery and Liberty Global, is going to bring two of its indies closer together as part of a restructure. The back-office functions of Cash Cab maker Lion TV and Lime Pictures, which produces Netflix teen drama Free Rein, will be combined, although the…

Liberty Global has wrapped up the sale of operations in Germany, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic in a transaction valued at $21.3 billion according to U.S. accounting rules. Net cash proceeds are about $11.3 billion, Liberty Global estimated. After the transaction, Liberty will still be the No. 1 provider of…

UPDATED with video clip. Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos, in a lengthy sit-down with Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries, covered a host of topics, including talent agencies producing content, Disney’s streaming outlook and Netflix’s M&A future. The pair spoke onstage Friday night at SeriesFest in Denver, an emerging…

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Good Omens and Jack Ryan are set to be made available to Virgin Media TV subscribers in the UK after parent company Liberty Global struck a deal with Amazon Prime Video. The Amazon Prime Video app is to be integrated into Virgin Media's Ultra HD V6 set-top box, marking the first deal in…

The Rook is a supernatural spy drama – a genre particularly suited to be made by "naturally duplicitous" Brits, according to exec producer Stephen Garrett. Character Seven boss Garrett, who co-founded Broadchurch producer Kudos, also discussed the departure of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer from the Starz drama. The R…

John Malone will retire from the Charter Communications board of directors, but continue to serve as a director emeritus. The 77-year-old Malone said in a statement that he resigned from the board in order to reduce travel and focus on fewer board positions. “I remain heavily invested in Charter, both financially and…

Endemol Shine is dancing towards a new future with a coterie of former top lieutenants potentially leading the waltz. The superindie is up for sale, a process that could see a romantic recoupling with the likes of founder John De Mol and ex-creative chief Peter Bazalgette, who is now Chairman of UK’s ITV, or…

TiVo Corp., which is already reviewing its strategic options as a company, said its CEO made a “personal decision” to resign less than a year in the role. Enrique Rodriguez is becoming chief technology officer at Liberty Global, a major cable operator in Europe and a longtime customer of TiVo’s. Raghu Rau, a board…

Telecoms giant Vodafone has agreed a $21.7B deal to acquire the cable assets of John Malone's Liberty Global in a number of European markets. The move will see the UK telco buy businesses in Germany, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic and will see it bolster its cable TV, broadband internet and mobile services in…

Cheddar, which bills itself as a “post-cable” media network covering the business world, said it has raised a $22 million Series D round of financing, which includes new investors such as Liberty Global and Goldman Sachs. Existing investors, including major media players AT&T, Amazon, Comcast Ventures and Altice USA…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon and Liberty Global are traveling into the future with their latest big-budget drama order – a social media-infused sci-fi series from The Walking Dead exec producer Channing Powell and British producer Studio Lambert. The SVOD service and the European pay-TV operator have commissioned The Feed, a TV…