Independent international distribution company Lineup Industries is expanding its distribution slate, signing a deal with Israel’s Gil Formats to represent the company’s content slate for global sales. Additionally, the two format specialists are establishing a creative fund to develop in-house and third-party formats for broadcasters and platforms in Israel, Europe and the US. The distribution deal incorporates all Gil […]
Distribution360 will be heading into MIPCOM Junior this year with a slate of six new titles, including an ‘out of this world’ family comedy series, an original book review show for tweens, and a new pre-school animation scripted in rhyming couplets. There are also two returning series. Overlord and the Underwoods (20 x 30) is […]
Electric Entertainment, the Los Angeles based production, distribution and post-production company, and Bell Media, Canada’s leading content creation company, have announced a licensing deal for Electric Entertainment’s three new series, “The Ark,” “Leverage: Redemption,” and “Almost Paradise.” The deal includes the premiere season of the upcoming SYFY original “The Ark”, in addition to the new […]
Electric Entertainment, the LA-based production, distribution and post-production company, has announced a multi-territory deal with NBCUniversal International Networks & Direct-To-Consumer (NBCUIN & DTC) for its SYFY US original television series The Ark. The territories include SYFY in France, Spain and Portugal and SCIFI in the Balkans and Poland. In addition, NBCUIN & DTC has also […]
Electric Entertainment, the Los Angeles based production, distribution and post-production company, announces the signing of two new licensing deals including Sony Pictures Television’s (SPT) networks in German Speaking Europe (GSE) and Now TV in Hong Kong for its successful crime series, “Almost Paradise.” The first US TV programme to be filmed entirely in the Philippines, […]
WildBear Entertainment, one of Australian’s leading producers of factual programming, has launched a new distribution division, WildBear International – timed to coincide with the busy MIPCOM/autumn sales period. WildBear Entertainment CEO Michael Tear will head the new business from Canberra, with a start-up sales team based in Europe comprising Edwina Thring and Margaret Yoshida of […]
In the first of a regular series of surveys to test the health of the international TV industry, the TellyCast/ WorkShare Consulting Content Industry Monitor found that less than one in ten (9 per cent) of executives wish to return to full time, permanent office working following the pandemic. The results showed that the vast […]
Laurine Garaude, the director of television at Reed Midem, is stepping down. Garaude has worked at Reed Midem since 1993 and was put in charge of television in 2009, helping develop and grow the Mipcom and MipTV events. Entertainment chief Jerome Delhaye and deputy TV director Lucy Smith will take on her duties in the […]
A+E Networks International has announced several more deals with global media companies that it says “underpins the company’s reputation as the leading distributor of TV movies in the world, and highlight the strength of its growing international co-production unit”. “During a time when so many broadcasters and streamers are in need of ratings proven content […]
During MIPCOM, TV markets expert Glance (Global Audience & Content Evolution), part of Médiamétrie, unveiled the trends that are and will be marking this atypical year. Frédéric Vaulpré, Vice-President of Glance, commented: “All over the world, viewers have