EXCLUSIVE: Canadian broadcaster CTV has partnered with NBCUniversal International Studios on primetime medical procedural The Transplant.

The series is produced by 19-2 producer SphèreMédia Plus and NBCUniversal will hold international rights outside of Canada with a particular eye on a U.S. sale. The show will be…

NBCUniversal International Studios has appointed Charlotte Bloxham to the newly created role of Head of Production. Based in London, Bloxham will be responsible for managing scripted production across the company's UK-based entities that include Heyday Television, Working Title Television and NBCUniversal…

NBCUniversal has reached within its ranks to find a replacement for outgoing NBCUniversal International Studios president Michael Edelstein.

NBCUniversal cable veteran Jeff Wachtel, most recently Chief Content Officer, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment and President, Universal Cable Productions & Wilshire Studios, has…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Edelstein will be stepping down from his post as President of NBCUniversal International Studios after more than seven years. He just made the announcement internally (You can read his note to his colleagues under the post)

The departure is said to be amicable, and Edelstein will stay on until the en…

Amazon Studios has given a straight-to-series order to Hanna, a drama based on Focus Features’ offbeat 2011 assassin pic, from David Farr, who co-wrote the feature, and NBCUniversal International Studios.

Emmy-nominated Farr, who most recently adapted John Le Carre’s The Night Manager for BBC/AMC, will pen the…

NBCUniversal International Studios and Imagine Exhibitions are set to launch Downton Abbey: The Exhibition, a fully immersive experience that takes visitors inside the global TV phenom.

The multi-year international tour will begin on June 17 in Singapore and then travel throughout the U.S. in 2018 and beyond.

The exhib…

Working Title Television UK has hired former BBC exec Mark Freeland has Head of Television Comedy, effective immediately. Based in London, he will work closely alongside Andrew Woodhead, Managing Director of Working Title Television.

Freeland was previously Controller, Fiction & Entertainment at the BBC, a role he star…

Sam Semon has been tapped for the newly created post of EVP Business Affairs at NBCUniversal International Studios. Tasked with oversight of U.S. biz affairs for the L.A.-based International Studios scripted team, Heyday Television US and Working Title Television US, he’ll start the job February 8, reporting to unit…

EXCLUSIVE: The Hunger Games alumna Leven Rambin has been cast as the female lead opposite Chris Noth in Gone, a 12-episode procedural drama series for NBCUniversal International Studios, Germany's RTL and France's TF1. The series, which eyes a launch in winter 2017-18, was created by Matt Lopez (The Sorcerer's Apprenti…

NBCUniversal International Studios has optioned rights to Image Comics’ graphic novel series Trees. First published in 2014, the sci-fi works are by comic book writer and New York Times bestselling author Warren Ellis (Red) and illustrator, Jason Howard. Adapting for the screen will be London-based Hardy Son & Baker…

Heyday Television — the joint venture of feature producer David Heyman (Harry Potter, Gravity, Paddington) and NBCUniversal International Studios — has appointed Nancy Cotton as U.S. President of Production. Cotton, who starts today, comes from Fox 21 TV Studios, where she served as SVP Creative Affairs. She will work…

In its first European deal for an off-air pilot, NBCUniversal International Studios’ new game show format QuizUp has been sold to the UK’s ITV. Based on the popular trivia app, this is one of the more talked about non-scripted offerings here at Mipcom. The UK version will be produced by one of NBCUniversal…