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Why producers should be watching Africa in 2025
The TV Collective’s Simone Pennant on why Africa offers a strategic, creative and cultural opportunity for international producers
How to avoid ‘middle of the freeway’ drama
The Institute’s Jack Bender and Benjamin Cavell on creating mainstream-adjacent scripted series and the beauty of minimal notes
Amazon reshuffles MGM Alternative oversight
The Voice and Real Housewives unit to move into Vernon Sanders’ Amazon MGM Studios division
Investment firm IPR.VC hires Logical Pictures exec
Céline Dornier joins to oversee content at Finnish outfit, which has also appointed a group CFO
Thursday round-up: Latest news, deals & hires
All the latest news from the global content industry on Thursday, 4 September
One Tribe lands Ash Dykes travelogue for global buyers
Regional indie teams up with explorer for China’s CICC and CMG and The Netherlands’ Insight TV
Brad Pitt’s Plan B launches in Europe with Baby Reindeer exec
Clerkenwell’s Ed Macdonald to run London-based hub for Mediawan-owned company
Blue Lights and The Rig creatives among International Horizons cohort
BFI and N&R screen agencies-funded programme to explore acquisitions market and financing in second iteration
Broadcast magazine - August 2025
Sharon Horgan and Merman; Talent on bad behaviour; Kate Phillips’ genre agenda
