More Edinburgh TV Festival News – Page 29
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NewsUS Department of Justice approves Paramount-WBD merger
Antitrust division has cleared the $111bn acquisition, but state-level opposition and international regulatory reviews continue
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NewsKeo lands first BBC YouTube doc order
Layla Wright to front investigation into convicted murderess
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NewsBBC unveils wide-ranging docs slate
Prison escapes, social justice, history, terrorism, arts and religion covered in factual orders
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NewsLionsgate extends stake in gen AI firm Runway
Short-form series in works that will tap US studio’s IP and tech firm’s AI software
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NewsKatie Price praises duty of care for helping with ‘dark’ moments of all-revealing Sky doc
Star suggests raw scenes make the series stand out
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NewsStanley Tucci savours British flavours for Nat Geo
Disney travelogue hails from actor’s Salt Productions and OBB Media
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NewsJack Bootle: ‘Small engaged audience’ trumps ‘big one that comes and goes’
BBC specialist factual head credits YouTube for new way of thinking about viewers
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NewsLumoTV orders Rogan docs pair
Indie behind Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change producing titles on BSL activists and threats to visual language
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NewsDisney+ orders first Canadian originals
Comedy and true crime series greenlights come a week after country u-turned on plans to increase streamer spending requirements
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NewsDisney+ strikes latest European broadcaster pact
Deal with NPO in the Netherlands will see a local remake of Werewolves being live streamed alongside public broadcaster’s transmission
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NewsIn brief: C4 reveals digital series order and screenwriting cohort; CBS eyes Trevor Phillips
Short-form series sees Maisie Adam and Joel Dommett set tasks to complete with the help of summer essentials
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NewsBBC selects indies for youth-focused YouTube channel
The Snake creator Strong Watch Studios and Random or Related outfit Acclaimed Content developing ideas for £2m pot
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NewsNorma Percy: Keeping Peter Mandelson in Brexit doc a ‘no-brainer’
Documentary doyenne tells Broadcast’s Talking TV podcast that allegations were irrelevant to story A Very British Civil War is telling
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NewsYouTube joins Edinburgh TV Festival Spotlight sessions
VoD platform joins broadcaster-focused panels for the first time
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NewsBrands to fuel microdrama expansion
Shifting advertising spend could provide another boost to demand of nascent but fast-growing medium
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NewsC4 acquires second series of Jimmy Doherty’s Big Bear Rescue
Red Sky Productions access doc follows wildlife team as it rehomes moon bears from South Korea
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NewsStoryville head sets out need to ‘do something different’
Nevine Mabro suggests certain narratives are ‘easy to fall into’
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NewsGuardian Docs ties with Arte for £10k doc fund
Partnership seeks project examining democracy in Europe
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NewsDrops of God producer hires Jörg Winger
Deutschland 83 co-creator joins Dynamic Television as company sets thriller in development with ZDF
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NewsStoryville seeks short-form documentaries
Documentary strand hunting for ideas for 10-40-minute films