Corus Studios ever-expanding slate of owned content has proven to resonate globally in 2020. We recently announced 19 new and returning series including renewed seasons of the hit series Island of Bryan and Rust Valley Restorers as well as brand new originals Project Bakeover and Cheese: A Love Story, to name a few. We’ve seen […]

Georgia Brown, director of European originals, Amazon Studios Lydia Hampson, head of scripted originals, UK Jonathan Lewsley, covering as head of scripted originals UK for Hampson who is on maternity leave Dan Grabiner, head of unscripted originals, UK Philip Pratt, head of scripted originals, Germany Nikolas Diringer, head of unscripted originals, Germany Thomas Dubois, head […]

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During Mipcom 2020, as part of the Chinese format promotion event Wisdom in China, Singing With Legends from Shanghai Media Group (SMG) subsidiary Dragon TV attracted plenty of attention.   With buyer interest in the format rights coming from Japan, Italy, France and the Nordic region, we catch up with Wang Leiqing, VP of SMG […]

Virginia Mouseler, CEO, The Wit: “The duet singing competition, hugely popular in Asia, is an underdeveloped type of talent show in western territories. This one is one worth testing: it comes with the must-have of the season: the hidden singer twist!”                 Anthony Meunier, COO, Hervé Hubert SAS: […]

NEWS BRIEF: WarnerMedia-owned US cablenet truTV has ordered 10 episodes of cooking competition series Fast Foodies from Warner Bros Unscripted Television’s Shed Media.

NEWS BRIEF: BBC1 in the UK has renewed its revived culinary format Ready Steady Cook for a second season.

In the C21FM Weekly Review Show, which this week runs between 10am on Thursday October 29 and 10am on Monday November 2, we play highlights from a great week on the station. Tune in for a mix of music, news and interviews that put the global content business in perspective.

Christiane Wittich of Studio Hamburg Enterprises showcases the Hamburg-, Berlin- and Munich-based distributor’s cross-genre playlist on C21 Digital Screenings and discusses the importance of being open to investment in compelling content.   Studio Hamburg Enterprises (SHE), part of Studio Hamburg Group, a subsidiary of German public radio and TV broadcaster NDR, has curated a playlist […]

NEWS BRIEF: WarnerMedia-owned US cablenet truTV has ordered a comedic illusionist stunt series fronted by a group of master magicians and daredevils.