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news & features

  • Discop judges boycott Israeli pitches
    A Discop Istanbul format pitching session was cancelled yesterday after judges refused to hear presentations from two Israeli companies.
  • Tech drives kids' business
    Advertising-funded VoD has cemented itself as the next big thing in children's media, but questions remain over monetisation, Kidscreen Summit delegates heard this week.
  • Wolf Hall scribe turns to Berlin Noir
    Peter Straughan, the writer behind the BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, is working with HBO and Tom Hanks’ Playtone Entertainment to bring Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir novels to TV.

FEATURES

  • Crisis management A year on from a “creative crisis” being declared in unscripted television, Clive Whittingham asks FermantleMedia’s Thom Beers whether the genre is continuing to suffer and, if so, what the solution is.
  • A digital direction Dave Morgan, CEO of ad tech firm Simulmedia, argues that when it comes to advertising, TV execs can learn from their digital cousins.
ITV in talks to buy Talpa
Canal+ picks programme chief
Vermeulen to take US role
M6 navigates to The Island
Banijay's Schweitzer to head content
Fremantle's Clark blasts interactive
Thorogood to leave Scripps
Brazil, France draw up copro treaty
ABC eyes Brazilian drama
Wentworth to return for fourth run
DNI explores with Stafford
Super Channel opens development fund
Enorme TV takes Turner block
Thunderbirds are go for TVNZ
TRT 4K channel takes off
Globo's GNT boards Food Truck
RTL's Style hauled into Brazil
Stan secures content from trio
Oz, Italy win Bellator league
Bold and the Beautiful stays on Ten
Wuaki.tv goes live in Italy
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perspective

  • Credit where it's due
    Tim-Searle-PERSP
    By Tim Searle
    Animated comedy from the UK is benefiting from a tax credit that means producers can now afford to keep work local, rather than outsource it abroad to cut costs.
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