UK financing and distribution company BossaNova Media has announced a partnership with energy industry association Energy UK to develop a strand of digital-first content.

Former Disney executive Tiffany Faigus and Netflix alum Ariane Wu have joined Amazon’s unscripted department as Jenn Levy makes her first key appointments since arriving at the beginning of the year.

Having built Dutch start-up Eyeworks into a group spanning 16 countries, Reinout Oerlemans then moved to Los Angeles and had to learn a completely different production culture. Here he reveals what ...

UKTV executive Hilary Rosen has been named chair of UK screen industry organisation Bafta, succeeding Sara Putt, who is stepping down after a three-year term. Rosen, who is director of commissioning ...

NEWS BRIEF: STV Studios Factual, the Glasgow-based prodco behind Antiques Road Trip, The Beauty Queen & the Catfish, Murder Island and The Yorkshire Auction House, has rebranded as North Star. The ...

LA-based Dynamic Television (Drops of Gold) has partnered with Sky New Zealand and funding body NZ On Air to launch a scripted development initiative to support up to three New Zealand drama series.

Cooking Buddies, the first TV show from celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s 13-year -old son Buddy, has found its international distributor after a deal with London-based Cake. Presented by Buddy, Cooking ...

NEWS BRIEF: UK commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired Australian drama The Twelve: Cape Rock Killer (8×60′), starring Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders actor Sam Neill and the third instalment in the ...

Former Lionsgate senior executive Erik Feig has been appointed to lead Arena SNK Studios, a newly launched production outfit backed with Saudi Arabian money to the tune of US$1bn. The US-based company ...

WILDSCREEN: The BBC must get better at doing returnable, repeatable natural history programming with a faster turnaround, according to its head of commissioning for specialist factual, Jack Bootle.… ...

Toronto-based distribution company Syndicado has picked up the digital sales rights in English-speaking territories to more ...

A raft of new international buyers, including Crave in Canada, AB1 in France, Tivibu in Turkey, Disney in Bulgaria and the ...