PCCW’s Viu has 45 million Monthly Active Users and surpassed 5 million paid subscribers, becoming one of Southeast Asia leading pan-regional OTT service. 4-5 years ago, the company started to produce originals in Asia that…
Televisa-Univision is the new combined company, creating a global leader in Spanish-language media with the largest library of owned content, coupled with production capabilities to power its leading TV, digital and streaming platforms. The transaction…
As part of its Digital MIPTV Showcase, Russian leading network NTV exhibited some of the most outstanding drama series, such as The Missing, Casting Lady Justice and Murderous Fervor who has been sold to French…
At MIPTV 2021, Orion Ross, VP, Animation, at The Walt Disney Company EMEA, highlighted to Sarah Baynes, from The Ceative Garden, that the company is looking for strengthening the co-productions projects all across the region.…
Diversity and inclusion in drama programming were the key topics discussed by Miranda Wayland, Head of Creative Diversity at the BBC, during Digital MIPTV 2021, who confirmed the British leading media group is allocating £…
Libbie Doherty, head of children’s programming at ABC, offered at Digital MIPTV her impressions on the content for the kids’ segment at the Australian pubcaster, while she highlighted the intentions to acquire content to strengthen…
Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) and Toronto based LoCo Motion Pictures have announced a deal that will see WBITVP acquire global (excl. Canada) distribution rights to How To Buy A Baby, the International Emmy…
Instead of the annual meeting at the Côte d’Azur, ORF Enterprises (Austria) organized during Digital MIPTV the UNIVERSUM online screening and dinner, where it presented highlights of internationally successful nature films for the first time…
MADD Entertainment shared early sales success for two of its drama series, Ay Yapim’s Flames Of Fate and Medyapim’s Nehir. Both ongoing series are top-rated in Turkey, and although many sales have been completed, broadcast…
On Behalf of God, Globoplay Original docuseries about a scandal that shocked the world has just been licensed to Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland (Germany). Globo’s production, which will premiere this year on RTL Crime in Germany,…
Love Nature, a wildlife and nature brand with linear and streaming platforms reaching 300 million households worldwide, announced its debut on Samsung TV Plus in the US market as a 4K FAST linear channel. It…
Banijay confirms The Write Offs has landed its first international deals, having been picked up for Australian and Danish audiences. Metronome Productions will produce the local Danish version for DR1, while SBS has also ordered…
RTÉ is Ireland public television and has been very active during the last years on the content production. Dermot Horan, director of acquisitions and co-productions, described the strategy and future plans at Digital MIPTV’s Drama…
Keshet is a leading player in Israel and worldwide, producing between 5 to 7 primetime series with one of the most recent successes, Line in the Sand, getting 20 rating points in Israel, the largest…
Fremantle has increased its stake in AbotHameiri, one of the leading Israeli production outfits, to 100% taking full ownership of the company. Founded in 2006 and headed by Eitan Abot and Guy Hameiri, the Tel…
PBS Kids is the segment of children’s programming of the North American public network, which is oriented to an audience of 2 to 8 years of age. Natalie Engel, Director of Content, Children’s Programming for…
Glance (Eurodata TV Worldwide) made a its traditionalpresentation “One TV Year In The World: Cracking Audience Trends”at this year Digital MIPTV, where it highlighted the results of a report of trends in world television viewing…
Digital MIPTV officially began on Monday, April 12, with the second presentation from The Wit about «Fresh TV» conferences, this time dedicated to fiction, where highlighted a Spanish and a Brazilian production, and stand out…
ZDF Enterprises will also co-produce S2 of the drama and catastrophe series Sløborn and will again be responsible for its global distribution. S1 of the ZDFneoriginal series dealt with the outbreak of a virus that…
AMC Networks has acquired the rights to the sophisticated, 6-part spy thriller series Spy City, which was produced by LEONINE Studios’ production banner Odeon Fiction and MIRAMAX TV, and will premier in the USA on…
Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. (TBS) has entered into its latest international venture with Zee Entertainment, one of the largest media conglomerates in India, as a part of its efforts to explore new avenues of…
RMVISTAR Founder and President Rose Marie Vega announced that the company has secured worldwide rights to Anacronte, a 3D CGI animated short film produced by Mr. Bug Studio in collaboration with Raul Kohler. Mr Bug…
French TV content distributor Ampersand Fiction, a division of Paris-based sales company Ampersand, has purchased the European, Asian, North American, and African rights to a fresh batch of series produced by Russian NTV. The two…
EndemolShine Fiction and Black Sheep Films announced the renewal of their exclusive co-development and co-production partnership covering all of the latter’s film slate. Founded in 2016 by Augustin Bernard and Mathieu Van de Velde, Black…
Having just recently announced a similar deal for the award-winning format Mute It!, Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) and Nippon TV have announced a deal whereby the Major Studio production business unit is set…
David Ciaramella, Communication Manager at K7 Media (UK), led the session focused on Factual & Documentary trends, where the thin of the consultancy highlighted that ‘past 2020, factual and documentary content had a lot of…
The traditional session Fresh TV Formats, presented by Virginia Mouseler, CEO of The Wit, began with its annual list of the most adapted formats from September 2020 to April 2021, headed by Korean format The…
‘We’re looking forward more than ever to bring you the best of MIPTV, MIPDocs and MIPFormats online’, underlined Reed MIDEM’ Deputy Director TV Division, Lucy Smith atthe opening session that took place yesterday, April 9.…
A Pew Research Centre report showed that Google’s online video service is consumed by 81% of Americans, edging out Facebook by a considerable margin in the country’s social media stakes. The study found that YouTube…
Chris Ottinger, President of Worldwide Television Distribution and Acquisitions at MGM, said: ‘This pan-regional launch on the Apple TV app further cements MGM’s successful expansion of our on demand SVOD service. We are excited that…
