Clive Whittingham

MIPCOM: Diddy: In Plain Sight, the one-hour film which debuted on Channel 4 in the UK to coincide with the start of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial in May 2025, has been picked up by a host of international broadcasters.

MIPCOM: French public broadcaster France Télévisions is teaming with local animation outfit Superprod on a series based on hit comic book FRNCK.

MIPCOM: South African pay TV operator M-Net, local producer Scene23, ITV Studios and Berkeley Media Group are set to produce The Invisible, a TV series adaptation from Deon Meyer’s novel Blood Safari.

Fremantle is taking Pandora’s Box, a new Dutch strategic reality competition that transforms a timeless myth into high-stakes gameplay, to Mipcom.

Warner Bros International Television Production has secured international distribution rights to French broadcaster TF1’s format The Final Circle.

France’s TF1, Germany’s ProSieben and Joyn and Finland’s MTV3 are the latest to adapt BBC Studios gameshow format Nation’s Dumbest.

UK pubcaster the BBC has named BBC Studios exec Nick Lee as its head of acquisitions, with incumbent Sue Deeks transitioning to an alternate role.

Finnish actor Salla Kozma is teaming with formats veteran Anssi Rimpelä to launch a new prodco which tears up the traditional model and uses YouTube, TikTok and Instagram as a proving ground for new format concepts.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has commissioned Believe Me, a four-part true crime drama from screenwriter Jeff Pope.

Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision has appointed John Farrell as its head of partnerships.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has commissioned a new culinary reality format following a group of young chefs competing to win a role at Jean-Christophe Novelli’s new restaurant in Barcelona.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has commissioned a UK version of Australian format Millionaire Hot Seat.

DOC/FEST: ‘Snobbery’ from traditional broadcasters towards crowdfunded doc projects risks exacerbating their loss of audiences and advertisers to YouTube, Doc/Fest delegates were told on Thursday.

The Walt Disney Company has hired Angela Jain, currently director of unscripted at ITV Studios, as head of content for its Disney+ streaming service in EMEA.

ITV Studios has appointed Tim Carter, the CEO of its production brands MultiStory Media and Twofour, as MD of unscripted in the UK.

US-based streamer Paramount+ has greenlit season two of spy thriller The Agency: Central Intelligence with production now underway in London. 

Tinopolis-backed UK factual prodco Pioneer Productions has appointed former Warner Bros Discovery executive Howard Swartz as CEO.

UK public broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned Schooled, a new six-part comedy written and created by Delia-René Donaldson.

John Whiston, MD of continuing drama and head of ITV in the North, is leaving the UK commercial broadcaster and retiring after 27 years.

US broadcast network NBC has revealed a fall schedule dominated by NBA basketball and a new Jimmy Fallon vehicle, while also officially greenlighting a new comedy series starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Ratcliffe.