All News articles – Page 1861
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NewsAll3Media: the story behind the sale
Permira’s £550m sale of All3Media to Discovery and Liberty Global marks the end of a three-year effort to offload the super-indie.
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NewsDiscovery eyes All3Media pipeline
Discovery’s ground-breaking deal to buy All3Media will give it a massive pipeline of content to exploit via second runs on its channels around the world.
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NewsAll3Media deal puts quotas in spotlight
Discovery and Liberty Global’s £550m takeover of All3Media looks set to change the way the super-indie does business with UK broadcasters.
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NewsTV failing women directors
Directors UK (DUK) is challenging broadcasters and producers to ensure that 30% of all shows are directed by women by 2017, after a major study found significant inequality in key genres, from crime drama to panel shows.
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NewsDiscovery & Liberty Global agree deal to buy All3Media
Discovery and Liberty Global have agreed a £550m-plus deal to acquire super-indie All3Media.
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NewsC4 marries strangers in new format
Channel 4 has commissioned Married at First Sight, a controversial Danish format that sees strangers get married after meeting for the first time.
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NewsC4 finances stable as share suffers
Channel 4 made a loss of £15m in 2013 - a year in which it missed key audience share targets, but made more than half its programmes outside of London for the first time.
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NewsBBC to use Stagebox device to boost election coverage
The BBC will boost its coverage of local and European parliament elections this month with the use of video-over-IP device Stagebox.
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NewsArgonon aids indies in Asia
A number of UK indies have landed business in Asia after partnering with a new funding firm backed by Argonon.
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NewsVice News boss: fresh approach is paying off
Vice News European chief Kevin Sutcliffe has claimed that the emerging channel is more “fleet of foot” than traditional news broadcasters.
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NewsRed Bull to launch TV channel on Sky
Red Bull is to launch a linear TV channel in the UK after securing carriage with BSkyB.
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NewsC5 deal opens door for Pact
Viacom’s acquisition of Channel 5 represents an opportunity for new terms of trade to be struck between Pact and the UK broadcaster.
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NewsViacom’s vision for Channel 5
Viacom is keen to bolster links between its US and UK assets once it completes its £450m acquisition of Channel 5, ramping up coproduction opportunities between the British broadcaster and the likes of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
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NewsC5 orders OAP doc and series on Roman Empire
Gavin & Stacey star Larry Lamb is to front a Channel 5 series charting the history of the Roman Empire.
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News7 Wonder lands Sky series as first order
7 Wonder, the indie co-founded by former Maverick boss Alex Fraser, has won its first commission: a Micky Flanagan-fronted travelogue in France for Sky 1.
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NewsDCMS kicks off hunt for Patten’s successor
The BBC Trust may have to wait up to six months for chair Lord Patten to be replaced – and John Whittingdale has warned that there won’t be a “massive queue” of candidates clamouring to fill the role.
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NewsAnalysis: ITV’s Leftfield deal
ITV’s £212m acquisition of Pawn Stars producer Leftfield Entertainment Group will catapult it to the top reaches of the independent production sector in the US.
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NewsNat Geo orders World War II docs for global slate
National Geographic Channels International has commissioned two big-budget World War II documentaries as part of its latest slate of global programming.
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NewsIreland's TV3 to adapt Gogglebox
Irish broadcaster TV3 has commissioned a local version of Gogglebox as part of its latest slate of programming.