More from Steve Brennan
Studio cuts create new deal dynamic
It's just a question of how heated the bidding by foreign TV program buyers will get for the U.S. shows they really want -- and how they will react to the down-shifted economics of the U.S. TV…
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Buyers positive on U.S. TV offerings
Key program buyers are, in a word, full of "Glee" about the shows on offer at the L.A. Screenings. Uplift and escape are in and medical shows are out -- at least according to public comments from a…
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Aliens, transplants trendy
Seductively insidious visitors from another planet and seductively intense vampires wowed the 400 foreign program buyers who trekked to the Warner Bros. lot Monday morning for a first look at the…
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WB, CBS roll out wares
Seductively insidious visitors from another planet and seductively intense vampires wowed the 400 foreign program buyers who trekked to the Warner Bros. lot Monday morning for a first-look at that…
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Special Report: L.A. Screenings
Pricing will be the tricky part as foreign buyers flock to the L.A. Screenings.
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Commentary: Heavyweight Irish lawyer picks fight with pending U.S. libel legislation
It might be that a soft-spoken and unassuming lawyer from Northern Ireland's current course of action could save celebrities their money and dignity one day, writes STEVE BRENNAN.
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SPT and RelativityREAL join forces
Sony Pictures Television and RelativityREAL have inked an international distribution deal for programming produced by Relativity.
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Comcast closes raft of E! series deals
Comcast International Media Group is raising its flag at MIPTV this year with an impressive slate of deals already inked for such E! titles as “Girls of the Playboy Mansion,” “Denise Richards: It’s…
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Nicky Wood promoted at WBITD
Nicky Wood has been upped to senior vp sales for Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and Sub Saharan Africa at Warner Bros. International Television Distribution.
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Shine execs singing for their MIP supper
Desperate times in the international TV business sometimes call for desperate action, and that's what has three Shine Group executives singing, dancing and playing make-believe TV hosts around Europe…
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Shine Group execs singing for ‘Fame’
Desperate times in the international TV business sometimes call for desperate action -- and that's what's had three Shine Group executives singing, dancing and playing make-believe TV hosts around…
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Holding Pattern
MIPTV report: While the Euros cut back, Hollywood takes the wait-and-see approach.
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