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Tuesday round-up: Latest news, deals & hires

All the latest news from the global content industry on Tuesday, 21 April

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Laura Poitras talks US mergers and ‘dire’ docs landscape

Cover-Up director praises sector efforts against Paramount-WBD merger and discusses troubled documentary industry

Keshet 12's WHO WANTS TO START Assi Azar on set

Israel’s Keshet unveils ‘emotionally-driven’ roundtable format

Who Wants to Start? features five celebrities in an unplanned conversation

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Obama’s Higher Ground to leave Netflix deal

Production company will go independent later this year after eight years with streamer

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Show of the Week: Veronika

A richly layered Nordic noir procedural that has already been recommissioned for two further seasons by SkyShowtime

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Broadcast magazine - April 2026

How it took a village to raise The Neighbourhood; BBC funding models in the spotlight; Indie Survey 2026