Clive Whittingham

UK pay TV broadcaster Sky is teaming with Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse prodco for a three-part doc series on the legends of darts.

All3Media has appointed literary agency exec Cassie Metcalf-Slovo as head of literary acquisitions.

Michael Kelpie is standing down from his role as MD of ITV Studios-owned Potato.

ITV Studios has taken a majority stake in Eagle Eye Drama, which was launched in 2018 by Walter Iuzzolino, Jo McGrath and Jason Thorp, the team also behind international drama streaming service Walter Presents.

Dominic Smales and Simon Goodman are launching GloMotion Studios, described as an audience led entertainment creator studio.

LA-based Dynamic Television has acquired the worldwide distribution rights for Blue Ice Pictures’ new series, Revival.

BBC Studios has secured international distribution rights to Norwegian-based Montreux Film and Fjernsyn’s gameshow format Nation’s Dumbest and will launch the show at Mipcom later this month.

Banjijay is heading to Mipcom in Cannes later this month with a slate led by the re-imagining of detective drama Bergerac; original new competition format Three Are The Champions and travelogue Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain.

French commercial broadcaster TF1 and European production group Fremantle are partnering on a new psychological reality format called Master of the Game.

France 3 has commissioned Voix de Stars (Sounds The Same), the latest shiny floor music competition format from the Banijay stable.