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Channel 4 has decided to rename its VoD player All4 to… Channel 4. The 40-year-old network, which has its birthday today, is aiming to bring all of its products under the Channel 4 brand and will also shortly rename portfolio channels E4, More4 and 4seven. The brand transformation will begin…

Leonine And Lionsgate Strike Germany/Austria Film Deal Leonine Studios has extended its relationship with Lionsgate by securing the rights to a premium feature film slate for Germany and Austria. The blockbuster deal incorporates high-profile titles for the region such as Keanu Reeves’ John Wick: Chapter 4, the Ana De…

Venice Film Festival Adds Joe D’Amato Doc The Venice Film Festival is adding documentary Inferno Rosso. Joe D'Amato Sulla Via Delle Eccesso, about the Italian filmmaker best known for his horror, erotic and adult films. Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin have directed the film, which will be presented by Nicolas…

During the middle of the pandemic, Kinetic Content scored a six season renewal for Married At First Sight at Lifetime – thought to be one of the largest ever orders. It came a few months after the Red Arrow-backed company had found success with social experiment/dating format Love Is Blind at Netflix – a show that…

We now pronounce you series and premiere date. Lifetime has set January 13 for the three-hour Season 12 debut of its reality-nuptials stalwart Married at First Sight, which has relocated to Atlanta for 2021. The cable net also said today that its latest Kevin Frazier-hosted MAFS: Matchmaking Special will premiere…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the largest orders ever, Lifetime has picked up six new seasons — Seasons 12-17 —  of its flagship reality series Married at First Sight. Additionally, Lifetime has greenlighted a new spinoff series, Married at First Sight: Unmatchables with an eight-episode order and has given a blind commitment…

EXCLUSIVE: More Married at First Sight is coming to Lifetime. On the heels of the highest-rated season finale in Married at First Sight franchise history, the network has acquired Married At First Sight: Australia for premiere in the U.S. The 36-episode import, featuring 12 couples, including one same-sex duo, will…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has given a green light to Married At First Sight: Couples Cam, new spinoff to hit reality series Married at First Sight. The series order comes as the network adapts to the new production realities forced by the coronavirus pandemic. Married at First Sight: Couples Cam will be self-shot by the…

The 2010s was the decade that foreign-language television broke through the global ceiling and got Hollywood to notice the quality of content coming from all corners of the world. While Danish drama The Killing (Forbrydelsen) and French thrillers Braquo and Spiral began inching the door open in the “aughties,” hyper…

Married At First Sight producer Snowman Productions is going global with a new international development division. The Red Arrow Studios-owned business is launching Snowman Global, which is designed to bolster its Danish format production operation into a global development and production label. It will work with…

EXCLUSIVE: Kinetic Content, the Red Arrow Studios company behind Lifetime’s hit Married At First Sight, has picked up the U.S. rights to a buzzy Belgium comedy format that confronts social taboos. Created by Belgium-based Panenka and sold by Dutch outfit Lineup Industries, Taboo sees a comedian spend time with people…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has ordered two new seasons — Seasons 10 and 11 — of its flagship reality series Married at First Sight, which is getting supersized with more couples and longer episodes. The news comes a week after the Season 9 Decision Day finale of the Kinetic Content-produced show last week hit a series…