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Fresh from inking a deal to make Amazon the UK home of Alex Rider, Sony Pictures Television has agreed a bunch more international sales for its teen spy franchise. Sony-backed Eleventh Hour Films' TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's best-selling novels has been picked up by Nordic Entertainment Group’s Viaplay service…

Amazon has snapped up the UK rights to Alex Rider, Eleventh Hour Films’ TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s best-selling teen spy novels. The streamer will drop the first eight-part series on June 4, featuring Otto Farrant as Alex Rider, a British teenager who has unknowingly been trained as a spy since childhood. Alex…

Wayne Garvie could see the tsunami coming as early as January, but he was still not prepared for the speed with which coronavirus ripped through the TV industry. Sony Pictures Television’s president of international production watched as his colleagues in China were forced into self-isolation. Korea came next and…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is on the brink of investing in Eleven, the British production company behind Netflix smash hit Sex Education, Deadline can reveal. Sources tell us that Sony is close to taking a significant stake in Eleven, beating a host of potential suitors who were keen to partner with one of…

Sony Pictures Television producer Stellify Media has landed one of the more unusual TV commissions to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic — it is strapping cameras to dogs and letting them roam the homes of their celebrity owners. The Northern Irish production company will make four-part series Snoop Dogs for UK…

Hooq, the subscription streaming service operated by Sony Pictures Television, Warner Bros and Singapore’s Singtel, has filed for voluntary liquidation. In a statement Friday, Singtel said it has “commenced a creditors' voluntary liquidation” of the company, in which it has a controlling stake of 76.5%. It added: “The…

Sony Pictures Television has become one of the first Hollywood studios to offer buyers a virtual experience to replace the LA Screenings, which were canceled earlier this month due to the coronavirus pandemic. Sony is launching the Sony Pictures 2020 Screenings in May, during which it will showcase full episodes and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Man of Bronze is headed to the small screen. Sony Pictures Television and Neal H. Moritz’s Sony-based Original Film have partnered with Condé Nast Entertainment to develop a scripted television series based on the Doc Savage pulp fiction franchise from the Street & Smith library. The project is part of…

Sony Pictures Television has finalized a deal to take a minority stake in The Whisper Group, a sports production company that makes live coverage of Formula 1 racing for British broadcaster Channel 4. Sony will effectively replace Channel 4 as Whisper’s minority investor after the broadcaster first backed the company…

Former Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins is returning to the streaming world with a high-level job at Amazon. Hopkins will be stepping down from his current post as Chairman of Sony Pictures Television later this month to join Amazon where he will be overseeing Amazon's video entertainment businesses – including Prime Video and…

Sony Pictures Television is to co-develop and co-produce a slew of European originals with Viaplay after the Hollywood studio extended its content deal with the Scandinavian streamer. The two companies have extended their exclusive, multi-year deal that means Viaplay will continue to have the first-window for Sony…

Sony Pictures Television’s The Mel Robbins Show, an inspiration-focused talk show, will end its run after the end of its first season. The plan is for production and episode delivery to continue through September, the company said. "Mel has had a positive impact on millions of daytime viewers and we still strongly…