All Television articles
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NewsSister’s Jane Featherstone on ‘Kaos’ cancellation and her mission to “make mainstream fashionable again”
Featherstone anticipates a return to less risky, long-form TV comissioning, with pure TV talent attached: ”Movie stars don’t want to do a TV schedule.”
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NewsFinnish series project ‘The Women I Think About At Night’ leads Tallinn TV Beats winners
German project ‘In Paradise’ wins new Public Favourite award.
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NewsNetflix execs tout ‘Bullet Train Explosion’, ‘The Leopard’, ‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’ at first international showcase
Chief content officer Bela Bajaria and leadership team introduced first International Showcase in Hollywood.
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NewsFrench broadcasters and film groups create body to protect France’s audiovisual sector
La Filière Audiovisuelle (LaFA) unites rival broadcasters in the face of rapid industry change.
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FeaturesWhat the drastic cull of UK soaps means for the film industry
Leading figures in the UK film and TV industry are sounding the alarm about the loss of UK soap ‘Doctors’ as an egalitarian training ground.
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NewsUK SVoD ad tier usage grows
Barb survey showed that the number of UK homes on the Netflix ad tier had risen by 37% in Q3.
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NewsScreenworks Asia adds ‘Marriage Exposed’ to its slate at Taiwan Creative Content Fest
The Taiwanese company also unveiled starry cast for series two of buzzy ‘The World Between Us’.
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NewsSee-Saw Films appoints M&A specialist to explore sale or investment
Broadcast has learned the company has appointed M&A specialist investment bank ACF to assess its options for the future.
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NewsApple TV+’s ‘Sunny’ starring Rashida Jones cancelled after one season (exclusive)
The mystery drama from A24 was filmed in Japan.
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Features“Series is the format with the most promising future,” enthuses South Series festival director
”We believe series is the format with the largest audience,” says the head of Cadiz’s South International Series Festival.
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NewsCádiz’s South International Series Festival unveils fiction and non-fiction competitions
The second edition of the series event has secured 12 world premieres of fiction and non-fiction works.
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NewsKetchup Entertainment partners with Zero Gravity Management on new high-end TV division (exclusive)
Ketchup to distribute slate. Partners anticipate releasing inaugural series by mid-2025.
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Features‘Peak TV’ era is over but drama market can recover, say scripted execs
Procedurals, which have long been the cornerstone of network dramas, are increasingly popular with cost-conscious streamers as well.
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NewsMax launch confirmed for seven Asian territories in November
The streaming service is heading to Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong among others.
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FeaturesCan Mipcom lift the spirits of a struggling TV industry?
The event, running October 21-24, comes at a challenging time for many of the global TV industry executives who are gathering in Cannes.
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NewsNetflix’s ‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’ to debut in December
Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation employed a crew of hundreds, and more than 20,000 extras.
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FeaturesShould indie filmmakers embrace or avoid FAST and AVoD platforms?
Ad-funded AVoD and FAST platforms are booming as cash‑strapped consumers look for cheaper alternatives to subscription services.
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News‘Baby Reindeer’ lawsuit can go ahead, rules judge
Source: Netflix ‘Baby Reindeer’ A US-based judge has ruled that Fiona Harvey’s £132m case against Netflix drama Baby Reindeer can be pursued on the grounds of defamation after the show was wrongly billed as a “true story.” Judge Gary Klausner noted that the show’s opening episode begins ...
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NewsSky sues Warner over ‘Harry Potter’ series and Max co-funding deal
The European pay TV giant says deal breaches cost it “hundreds of millions of dollars” of lost revenue.
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Features11 Spanish series to keep an eye on
Includes a rehab drama, the voyages of Columbus and a sci-fi podcast.