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U.K. Broadcaster Channel 4 Backs Big Deal Films, Producers of Dreaming Whilst Black (EXCLUSIVE) Manori Ravindran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has invested in Dhanny Joshi (pictured, right) and Thomas Stogdon’s (left) Big Deal Films as part of its Indie Growth Fund portfolio. Initially formed as a talent management company, Big Deal Films has grown its ranks and set up shop in recent years as a fully fledged production outfit specializing in factual, factual en...

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BBC Launches First Fully-Owned U.S. Streamer With BBC Select (EXCLUSIVE) Manori Ravindran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail With this week’s launch of streaming service BBC Select, one of the world’s most recognizable media brands is joining North America’s streaming ranks on its own terms for the very first time. The new platform joins an international channels portfolio that already includes BBC Earth, BBC Brit and BBC First. There’s also Stateside streamer BritBox, BBC Studios’ jo...

Vice Distribution Announces Spring Slate With More Than 250 Hours of New Content - Global Bulletin Jamie Lang, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In today’s Global Bulletin, Vice Distribution announces its spring slate; Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson doc gets theatrical launch dates ahead of its Amazon Prime Video premiere; Channel 4 commissions COVID lockdown-inspired docu-series “Sex Odyssey” with Alice Levine; South African streamer Showmax commissions a local version of “Tem...

Disney Lifts Lid on Star: Exclusivity and Parental Control Keys to New Tile Manori Ravindran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail There’s a new Star in the Disney galaxy. The Mouse House on Wednesday lifted the lid on its highly anticipated Star offering — the sixth tile within its international Disney Plus service — coming almost a year after the SVOD launched in Europe. Ahead of the virtual confab, Disney Plus, which has been robbed of any significant physical press event since launching ...

How Will Fresh U.K.-China Political Tensions Impact Entertainment? Tim Dams, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Access for U.K. producers and distributors to the lucrative Chinese TV and film market could be under further threat amid worsening political relations between China and the U.K. Tensions between the two countries have centred on their media brands in recent weeks. The relationship, which has been fraught for some time, reached a breaking point when China’s international English-lang...

NBCUniversal Formats Sets Middle East Version of Celebrity Game Face - Global Bulletin Naman Ramachandran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In today’s Global Bulletin, “Celebrity Game Face” gets Middle East version; Sophia Loren to get Legend Award; UKTV announces diversity and inclusion writing programs; Fiona Campbell appointed as chair of the Royal Television Society Northern Ireland center; BBC expands documentary slate with Greta Thunberg film; “Assassin’s Creed” game to get p...

| 16 February 2021 In the latest expansion of the BBC Studios and ITV joint venture ad-free subscription video-on-demand service around the globe, South Africa will be the fifth global territory for BritBox. The SVOD service will launch in the African continent’s key market in the second half of 2021 and follows successful launches in the US and Canada, the UK and, most recently, Australia. BritBox first launched in North America in March 2017, and announced it had surpassed 1.5 ...

Madeleine McCann Case Back in the Spotlight in Discovery Plus Original - Global Bulletin Naman Ramachandran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Three-part Christian B and his link to one of the world’s most well-known unsolved cases — Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. The three-year-old disappeared from her parents’ holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007. The German police are convinced that Madeleine’s abductor is sitting in a German jail, where he is serving a sentence for raping a ...

Payne will report to Suzy Lamb, MD for entertainment and music 10 Feb, 2021 - 01:36 PM IST     |     By indiantelevision.com Team     NEW DELHI: BBC Studios Production has hired James Payne to lead the music content creative and commercial strategy for the studio’s entertainment and music business. Payne will report to entertainment and music MD Suzy Lamb and look after the delivery of new IP to grow the brand’s creative, and commercial prospects while also expanding its product...