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Participant Media To Launch TV Network Summer 2013

Participant Media, the leading provider of entertainment that inspires and accelerates change and known for such award-winning films as An Inconvenient Truth, Food, Inc., The Help, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and the upcoming Promised Land, will further expand its growing industry footprint with the Summer 2013 launch of a cable network targeting the millennial generation.

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W Network Launches Original Web Content Simultaneously on YouTube, Facebook and WNetwork.com with Property Brothers BroCam

W Network’s Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott are giving fans an all-access, unedited, behind-the-scenes look at their lives between filming with BroCam, a collection of one to two minute webisodes. The first video will launch on W Network’s YouTube channel, WNetwork.com and on the W Network Facebook page on Tuesday, October 23 at 9 p.m. ET.

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Warning: House Hazards May Cause Extreme Entertainment

Recreating blazing kitchen grease fires, erupting vacuum cleaners and bursting helium tanks is all in a day’s work on the brand-new series House Hazards, premiering Tuesday October 16th at 10 pm ET/PT on HGTV Canada.

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BBC AMERICA Scores Best Month and Quarter Ever

BBC AMERICA is celebrating its best month and quarter ever - fueled by the continued success of Supernatural Saturday series Doctor Who and the channel’s first original scripted series Copper.

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Peter Smith Appointed to CEO, Cineflix Studios

Cineflix Media continues to strengthen its scripted operations with the appointment of Peter Smith to the position of CEO, Cineflix Studios. Based in London, Smith’s focus is to continue to build the scripted business in the UK, US, and Canada and produce highly regarded, long-running series.

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Cineflix Rights Signs Package of Deals with Central and Eastern European Broadcasters

Cineflix Rights has signed deals amounting to more than 400 hours of programming with broadcasters in Central and Eastern Europe in the lead up to, and around Natpe Budapest. The sales reflect Cineflix Rights’ position as one of the region’s leading international suppliers of blue-chip factual titles and high-rating, long-running food and property series from both Cineflix Productions and third party producers.

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Jodi Flynn Joins Cineflix as EVP, Programming

Leading international indie producer and distributor Cineflix Media continues to expand its US presence with the appointment of Jodi Flynn to the position of Executive Vice President, Programming. Based in Cineflix’s LA office, Flynn joins Cineflix in July and will generate content for new and returning reality series for major cable networks, alongside Lisa Levenson and Charles Tremayne in the U.S. and ... more

Cineflix Productions Wins Two BBC Series Commissions

Cineflix Productions (UK) has won a major commission for Pet School, a series forming the centrepiece of a campaign in the run up to the festive season on the theme of looking after pets.  Cineflix has also been commissioned by BBC Daytime to produce Claimers – an observational series exposing fraudsters making false insurance claims.

Pet School (10x30’), CBBC, is a fun, informative format which ... more

Cineflix Launches Industry Leading Instant Cash App

Cineflix and Shaw Media have teamed up with UK-based Intrasonics for the innovative new Instant Cash Trivia App as a companion to its popular TV series. The new app marks the first time North America viewers can play along with a TV series game show in real time from their mobile devices.

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Cineflix's Mega Hit Property Brothers Goes Stateside for Season 3

Cineflix’s hit series Property Brothers is gearing up for another packed season of dream home transformations. The third season of Property Brothers (26x60) has begun shooting the first seven episodes in Austin, TX. The remaining 19 episodes will be shot in Toronto beginning in August.

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Cineflix to Produce Two-Part Highlight of Channel 4 Mental Health Season

Cineflix Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce two high-profile programs challenging mental health stigma and discrimination. The programs form the centre-piece of the broadcaster’s mental health season entitled  4 Goes Mad.

The 2 x 60’ stripped event programs (currently untitled) will feature a cast of eight dynamic employees – some of whom have a mental health ... more

Participant Media Acquires Equity Position in Cineflix Media

Participant Media, the leading provider of entertainment that inspires and accelerates change, has made an equity investment in Cineflix Media, Inc. a, diversified global media corporation and leader in television production and distribution, it was announced today by Jim Berk, CEO of Participant Media and Glen Salzman and Katherine Buck, Founders and Co-CEOs of Cineflix Media, Inc.

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Paul Heaney to Leave Cineflix Rights

Leading international producer and distributor Cineflix Media announced today that Paul Heaney, President and Managing Director of Cineflix Rights, has decided to leave the company. Paul Heaney said: “I’ve had a fantastic ten years at Cineflix growing the distribution operation from scratch to the success we are today. It has been an incredibly tough decision but I feel that it’s the right time to pursue new opportunities and I’m looking forward to the challenges ahead.

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Cineflix Rights Signs Distribution Deals Ahead of MIPTV

Cineflix Rights, one of the UK’s leading distributors, heads off to MIPTV 2012 with a raft of deals signed with global broadcasters for new series and returning brands from Cineflix Productions and third party producers.


The distributor has signed deals with NGCI for World War II: The Last Heroes (6x60’), an epic mini-series from Impossible Pictures which chronicles the final years of the Allied campaign ... more

Cineflix Rights Signs Third Party Slate in Advance of MIPTV

Cineflix Rights, one of the UK’s leading distributors, has signed a series of new acquisition deals with production companies including Touch Productions, Icon Films, Bargepole Productions, Imagination Television, Windfall Films and The Downlow Concept ahead of MIPTV 2012.

New producer deals include Touch Productions’ The Human Body in 3D (2x60’), which uses a rich blend of specially shot real-life ... more

Cineflix Studios Announces Production Start on Copper, Showcase’s Original Crime Drama

Gripping New Crime Drama, Executive Produced By Award-Winning Team: Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Glen Salzman, Will Rokos and Christina Wayne

Cineflix Studios today announced start of production on Copper.  The (10 x 60) series, created by Tom Fontana and Will Rokos is shooting in studio and on location in Toronto, Ontario through May 2012. Among the executive producers are Fontana, Rokos, Barry ... more

BBC America and Cineflix Studios Announce Production Start On Copper, the Channel’s First Original Scripted Series

Gripping New Crime Drama, Premiering Summer 2012, Executive Produced By Award-Winning Team:

Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Glen Salzman, Will Rokos and Christina Wayne

BBC AMERICA and Cineflix Studios today announced start of production on Copper, BBC AMERICA’s original crime drama which will air Summer 2012. The (10 x 60) series, created by Tom Fontana and Will Rokos is shooting in studio and on location ... more

Cineflix Studios Announces Production Start on Copper, Showcase’s Original Crime Drama

Gripping New Crime Drama, Executive Produced By Award-Winning Team: Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Glen Salzman, Will Rokos and Christina Wayne

Cineflix Studios today announced start of production on Copper.  The (10 x 60) series, created by Tom Fontana and Will Rokos is shooting in studio and on location in Toronto, Ontario through May 2012. Among the executive producers are Fontana, Rokos, Barry ... more

Cineflix Rights Seals North and Latin American Deals

Cineflix Rights has signed a series of deals with North and Latin American broadcasters including Smithsonian, HGTV, Fox Latin America, Discovery Latin America, Nat Geo Mundo and Globosat Brazil.

The distributor has sold seasons eight, nine and 11 (23 x 60’) of hit series Mayday: Air Disaster, which investigates legendary aviation disasters to find out what went wrong and ... more

BBC America, Cineflix Studios, and Shaw Media Announce Lead Cast and Production Team for Original Series Copper

Tom Weston-Jones, Anastasia Griffith, Kyle Schmid and Franka Potente To Front 2012 Crime Series

BBC America, Cineflix Studios, and Shaw Media today announced lead cast for their original scripted series, Copper.  Tom Weston-Jones (MI-5, aka Spooks) is set to star as rugged Irish-American cop Kevin Corcoran.  Alongside Weston-Jones is Canadian Kyle Schmid (Blood Ties, The Sisterhood of the ... more

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