Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) will commence rolling out Max across Europe in spring 2024, with countries under its current HBO Max footprint being the first to receive the SVoD service. The news was revealed during a keynote at MIPCOM from WBD international chief Gerhard Zeiler and WBD head of streaming for Europe, Leah Hooper Rosa. […]
Victoria Lozano, EVP Crayola, took to the stage at MIPJUNIOR in Cannes, France on October 15th to set out the vision and inspiration behind Crayola Studios’ move into entertainment content and explained why the ambitious plans fit naturally with the company’s wider ethos. Delivering the Keynote presentation, New ‘Kid’ in Town, Lozano stressed the long-term […]
Insight TV, the millennial-focused global channel operator, is announcing the start of production on a new automotive travel show The Ride Life with Sung Kang, featuring the star of the global hit movie franchise Fast & Furious. A co-production between Insight TV, Beach House Pictures, Bros Studio and Raison D’Etre Stories, the series is filming across diverse […]
The rights to hit novel 29 Seconds, written by ‘Master of the up-all-night thriller’ T.M. Logan, have been snapped up by Big Light Productions. The Leonardo producer, founded by award-winning writer and producer Frank Spotnitz (Devils, Medici, The Man in the High Castle, The X-Files), will develop the thriller into a limited drama series, as part of their first look deal with Tomorrow Studios, an […]
The international arm of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced a restructuring of the content licensing team following the departure of Robert Blair in July. WBD international president Gerhard Zeiler revealed in a staff memo that a team of existing executives will fill Blair’s role. Phil Goodhew, senior VP of commercial strategy for international TV […]
UK/US producer Lightbox, founded by Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn is in production on a premium three-part documentary series co-financed by Channel 4 and Fifth Season examining the recent controversy around the rock star Marilyn Manson. Marilyn Manson: Behind the Mask (working title) charts the musician’s rise to fame, significance and role as a counterculture […]
OneGate Media has secured worldwide distribution rights for the drama series, Isolated (8×45’). The series will be featured on OneGate Media’s varied slate for MIPCOM this year. Set on the eerie Utö Island, the series begins on a typical day, where the local residents of the island await the arrival of the weekly ferry from […]
Ahead of their attendance at MIPCOM, World of Wonder (WOW) has announced three new originals to take audiences behind the curtain, to the front row and up-close-and-personal with the most talented, hilarious and fierce Drag Queens in the land. The new slate of content – the recently announced behind the scenes look at the hugely […]
BBC Studios has announced that Chris Kinsman and Rebecca Ransley have been promoted to the newly created roles of Senior Vice President Factual and Senior Vice President Scripted for BBC Studios’ Content Sales Markets EMEA. Based in London and reporting to Nick Percy, President of Global Markets, Kinsman and Ransley will lead the teams responsible […]
The Wind Sun Sky content team continues to expand with the appointment of several key new members to the team including Robin Hays who has joined the company in a newly created role as Vice President Creative, Kids; and Bernice Vanderlaan who has signed on as Future Chicken Universe Executive Producer and Head Writer. In […]