The Telegraph’s Bouncing Ownership Ball

American investor Todd Boehly is looking to help Brit Dovid Efune to buy the U.K.’s The Daily Telegraph for 550 million pounds (USD 701.80 million).

Efune owns the conservative publication The New York Sun (now (…)

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Fifth Season Signs Partnership with Hulu

Fifth Season has secured a multi-title deal with Hulu in the U.S. across a slate of scripted and unscripted titles.

The programs included in the deal are Roughcut TV’s comedy Big Boys, (…)

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Bomanbridge Inks Multiple Asian Deals

Singaporean indie Bomanbridge Media has secured several deals throughout Asia for scripted and factual titles.

Drama series Black Out: Snow White Must Die, based on the international bestseller by Nele Neuhaus, (…)

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Banijay Acquires ‘My Name is Gabriel’ Format

Banijay Entertainment has acquired the worldwide format rights to My Name Is Gabriel (Mai Neim Ijeu Gabeuriel), from Korea’s TEO Corp, a production studio led by PD Kim Tae-ho (Infinite (…)

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Short Drama App FANY:D Launches

FANY Corporation, a member of Japanese talent agency Yoshimoto Kogyo Group — in collaboration with NTT Docomo Studio & Live and Minto — has launched the vertical short drama platform (…)

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Vivendi Shareholders Approve Spin-Off

The December 9, 2024 shareholders meeting of Vivendi, held under the chairmanship of Yannick Bolloré (pictured), has approved by more than 97.5 percent of the votes the separation from Vivendi (…)

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WBD Renews Carriage Deal

Warner Bros. Discovery cable TV channels can still be nesting at Comcast. The Hollywood studio has just renewed its deal with the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based cable TV operator for its channels, (…)

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All3Media Licenses Gaelic Drama ‘An t-Eilean’ to BBC Four

Commissioned by Gaelic-language channel BBC Alba, drama series An t-Eilean (The Island) will air on BBC Four in a deal through All3Media International.

From Black Camel Pictures, the four-part Gaelic (…)

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Ads Are a $1 Trillion Global Biz

According to the New York City-based Group M, a media investment group that is part of advertising behemoth WPP, global advertising spending will reach USD 1 trillion in 2024.

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‘Find Me in Paris’ and ‘Spellbound’ Travel the World

Federation Kids & Family and ZDF Studios, worldwide distributors of live action tween series Find Me in Paris and its reboot Spellbound, have signed a number of recent sales for the saga.

In the U.K., Spellbound season 1 has (…)

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