EXCLUSIVE: Ben Silverman and Howard Owens' Propagate is set to attend MipTV next month with an expanded international distribution team and television slate following its recent acquisition of Electus. The company has also set new format sales ahead of the market that runs April 8-11 in Cannes. Led by Propagate…

EXCLUSIVE: A relatively quiet MipTV is about to get a little bit noisier with the possibility of another TV mega-merger. The word on the Croisette is that ITV is one of a number of major television groups considering acquiring Endemol Shine Group. Sources at ITV tell me that the British commercial broadcaster, which…

Nickelodeon International has greenlit live-action kids series The Covurts. This is the first original co-production for Nickelodeon with Nutz Productions, the producing arm of Israel’s Ananey Communications in which Nick parent Viacom acquired a minority stake last year. Israeli cable network HOT is also in the mix…

Marking its inaugural acquisition of a UK-based TV production entity, eOne has taken a majority stake in non-scripted outfit Whizz Kid Entertainment. The deal builds on a recent partnership between the two companies under which eOne has adapted a U.S. version of Whizz Kid format Ex On The Beach for MTV. Further U.S…

Beta Film and Red Bull Media House are launching high-end scripted project The Net. Inspired by true events, the ambitious series is planned as five standalone seasons of eight episodes each. It uses the world of soccer as a backdrop for the characters who experience the beautiful game not only as a dream factory, but…

In their first SVOD deal, Cineflix Rights and Hulu have pacted on Cineflix Media’s new Canadian crime drama Pure. Under the agreement, the series will air exclusively on the streaming service in the U.S. The Michael Amo-created Pure launched at MIPTV earlier this month and recently premiered on the CBC, winning its…

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…

MBC Group's O3 Productions and Image Nation Abu Dhabi have formed a strategic partnership for film and television production. The first project under the new alliance is the adaptation of author Ibraheem Abbas' best-selling sci-fi novel HWJN. The plan is to make an Arabic-language feature film, to be co-produced and…

Amazon Studios' Roy Price sat down for a keynote discussion at MIPTV in Cannes this evening and provided insight into how the streaming service bridges the divide between TV and cinema. "A new day has dawned," said Price, "where when you’re in this hyper-competitive world of hundreds of thousands of shows and you…

Former Sony Chairman Howard Stringer; DRG CEO Jeremy Fox; and MTG EVP/Head of Programming and Content Development Jakob Mejlhede have hatched Atrium TV. Billed as a “commissioning club,” the aim is to create premium drama content for delivery by regional OTT players and telcos, helping them to compete with…

Agatha Christie Productions has appointed IMG as international sales partner for its upcoming slate of seven new Christie dramas. In August last year, ACP entered a deal with BBC One for the films to be produced over the next four years by Mammoth Screen. The adaptations kick off with Ordeal By Innocence which Sara…

Continuing to grow its European production footprint, Keshet International has acquired Munich-based indie, Tresor TV Produktions. Founded in 1992, Tresor makes reality, factual entertainment and variety shows and has produced successful local versions of formats like Top Model, Popstars, Supernanny, Survivor and DIY S…