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Acorn/Sundance Acquire ‘The Drowning’ AMC Networks streamers Acorn TV and Sundance Now have swooped for the U.S. and Canadian rights to four-part identity thriller The Drowning. Produced by Noel Clarke and Jason Maza's All3Media-backed Unstoppable Film & Television, the series will premiere on the streamers on May 6…

EXCLUSIVE: UK broadcaster Channel 5 is bringing back The Bachelor for a second date. The Viacom-owned network broke up with the Warner Bros-owned dating format in 2012 after two seasons but is rekindling its romance as it looks to find a competitor for ITV2's Love Island. Deadline understands that Warner Bros-owned Ric…

London-based indie producer Nevision has optioned author MG Leonard's trilogy of children's books, Beetle Boy, Beetle Queen and the recently released Battle Of The Beetles. Published by Chicken House in the UK and Scholastic in the U.S., Canada and Australia, as well as more than thirty other markets, the books center…

Warner Bros International Television Production Spain has been commissioned by Spanish media group Artresmedia to produce the first international version of game show format Game Of Games for local channel Antena 3. Comedian and actress Silvia Abril will host the Spanish version of the show, in which contestants are…

Amazon will close down its DVD-by-mail rental service Lovefilm in the UK and Germany on October 31, citing decreased demand. A precursor to Netflix in Britain, Lovefilm was founded in 2002 and acquired by Amazon in 2011 when it had more than 1.4M subscribers (Netflix launched in the UK in 2012). For a monthly fee…

BBC Worldwide has closed a series of deals to bring four BBC Earth Giant Screen films to mainland China and Hong Kong in 2017. Tiny Giants, Wild Africa, Earthflight and Incredible Predators will screen in more than 20 science and technology museums beginning in January under pacts with Orient International Holding…

The Little Big Shots are headed to Europe. Warner Bros International Television Production has set the first two international local production sales for the unscripted comedy/variety series that’s been a big hit for NBC. ITV has ordered a British version straight to series which will be produced by Wall to Wall, the…

Dutch media entrepreneur John De Mol‘s Talpa Media Holdings has established new joint ventures in the UK, Italy and the Nordic region. The moves give Talpa the ability to produce local versions of formats from its own catalogue for TV channels in the respective markets, an increasing trend among players. Warner Bros‘ S…

A rash of acquisitions of European and U.S. independent production companies has been steadily spreading over the past year and a bit. One exec says, "We joke that there's a transaction a day." Leading the charge is the UK's ITV, which has been on a shopping spree since it first bought a controlling stake in Duck Dynas…

Warner Bros International Television Production has acquired format rights to distribute BBC One's new quiz show, The Link. BBC One has commissioned 25 episodes for a daytime slot. The show is produced by STV Productions in association with LTV. Not to be confused with the BBC’s The Weakest Link, the game show pits…

Colombia Paging ‘ER’ With 60-Episode Order ER is going Latino. Warner Bros International Television Production today announced the first Latin American format deal for the seminal medical series. RCN, Fox International Channels and TC have commissioned a local-language version for Colombia with a 60-episode order…

Warner Bros isn’t talking, but Dutch media is reporting today that the company is in talks to acquire Netherlands-based TV producer Eyeworks, Reuters said. Warner Bros International Television Production already has a majority stake in UK production group Shed Media and in BlazHoffski Holdingan, an indie producer that…