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C21’s most read news stories from 2025

As we bring down the curtain on 2025, find out what you’ve been clicking from our newsfeeds with a top 30 countdown of our most read stories, dominated by money, threats to traditional business models and M&A activity.

  1. Netflix’s Territory bites the dust despite being ANZ’s biggest returnable project to date
  2. Tim Davie, Deborah Turness quit the BBC amid Trump documentary crisis 
  3. Bosch star Titus Welliver signs first-look deal with Amazon MGM as Legacy set to conclude 
  4. Former Asacha, All3Media exec Maria Ishak launches Mischief International 
  5. Narrative Entertainment to shutter Pop linear channels and app next month 
  6. Australian government to impose content quotas on streaming services 
  7. Swiss distributor CosmoBlue Media expands AVoD offering with acquisition of YouLook.tv 
  8. Yorkshire-based Duck Soup Films to cease development and production in 2026 
  9. Vice Media’s Jamie Hall hired as MD for scripted at BBC Studios Productions 
  10. ITV Studios EMEA distribution exec Gisela Asimus Minnbergh to step down
  11. Insight TV launches World Storytelling Media Group after acquiring Off the Fence assets
  12. Chris Rice exiting as co-CEO of Fifth Season, Graham Taylor to become sole head 
  13. Netflix is Living the Dream with adult animated workplace sitcom 
  14. Comcast’s Sky in early talks to acquire ITV broadcast business for $2.1bn 
  15. Italy’s Rainbow Group gets $92m investment from The Equity Club
  16. Amazon MGM Studios to take on James Bond via JV with Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli 
  17. ‘Unprecedented alliance’ to allow Netflix subscribers to stream TF1 content in France
  18. BBC, Netflix and Stephen Knight bring Peaky Blinders back for two more seasons 
  19. The Wire creator David Simon ‘can’t get anything made’ in franchise-obsessed TV business 
  20. Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini unveils plans for global anime market growth 
  21. ITV scoops Format Awards treble in Cannes, two awards for Banijay 
  22. Bluey and streaming help BBC Commercial rebound with record revenue 
  23. South Korea’s CJ ENM pairs with Taiwanese trio to launch $30m content fund
  24. Charlotte Moore to leave BBC for dual roles at The Crown producer Left Bank and SPT 
  25. New Empire Pictures develops Sarah Winman’s TV adaptation of her wartime novel Still Life 
  26. CJ ENM launches First Light StoryHouse to showcase Asian-led content 
  27. Off The Fence enters bankruptcy proceedings, companies circle catalogue 
  28. Canada’s Corus Entertainment to shutter five kids’ channels in cost-cutting drive 
  29. Welsh pubcaster S4C reveals new digital-first five-year vision
  30. Netflix enters definitive agreement to buy WBD’s streaming, studio assets for $82.7bn
Clive Whittingham 23-12-2025 ©C21Media
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