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While the development execs are fine-tuning their TV network line-ups for the 2023-2024 season, and the networks’ ad salespeople are jostling for attention for their Upfront presentations in New York (…)

“It’s commendable that C21 was able to organize a market in a few short months,” said content buyer Cida Goncalves about the very first Content Americas TV market, which is, (…)

Old timers who attended the first few editions of MIP-TV in the 1960s often reminisce about the fact that participants’ pictures were posted on a big board at the entrance (…)

By Mike Reynolds

After three years of COVID-forced Zoom interviews instead of actual Winter and Summer Press Tours on location, the Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter Press Tour finally went “live” (…)

By Dom Serafini

At breakfast at my hotel in Singapore — when I was there for the ATF in early December 2022 — I regularly saw a girl of about five (…)

The international TV industry entered 2023 down one market (R.I.P. NATPE Miami), and (potentially) up three new markets that were seeking to replace it. Ultimately, just one of those new (…)

There are people — not only in the U.S., but also in Canada, in Germany, and in many other countries — who use the free speech argument to spread false (…)

By Dom Serafini

There are many reasons to do away with the Upfronts, a U.S. broadcast tradition going back to the 1960s. The first reason is the fact that the Upfronts (…)

By Dom Serafini

Looking back at the recently concluded ATF market in Singapore, I realized that aging has allowed me to know things that I didn’t even know I knew. It’s (…)

Time flies when you’re having fun, but was 2022 fun? Yes, we returned to a “new” normal life after the pandemic, but we also saw the destruction that “Mad Vlad” (…)