Freeze Frame
At the launch party of Speed’s INTERSECTIONS in Old Greenwich, CT, (l to r) Gary Lico, CEO, CABLEready; Bob Ecker, VP, programming, Speed, and executive producer; and Lou Occhicone, SVP, operations, CABLEready.
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CABLEready Expands into Corporate Video
July 23, 2010 CABLEready Productions in Norwalk, an international television program distribution and development company, is expanding its services to offer corporate video and post-production, in addition to its work as a dubbing and duplication facility. CABLEready is completing its first corporate video work for CAPS, the Shelton-based data recovery services company, creating a virtual tour for CAPS’ new website, and is in production on two new TV series: “Intersections” — which has its world premiere on Speed this month — and “The Minimalist,” featuring Mark Bittman, New York Times [...]
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Just Weather, Thanks, Dish Tells Channel
The woes of the Weather Channel can be summed up in one movie title: “Misery.” A decision to buy the Kathy Bates thriller — tangentially weather-related because it takes place during a snowstorm — has become a talking point as the Weather Channel renegotiates its contracts with cable and satellite companies. “Misery” is one of several movies shown by the Weather Channel this year, part of an effort to expand beyond barometric pressure readings and tropical weather updates. The Friday night feature is called “Flick and a Forecast.” Other films [...]
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CABLEready Inks Raft Of Deals For The “Tony Awards”
May 4, 2010 Television distribution and development company CABLEready reported a strong MIP-TV, with notable international deals for the “Tony Awards,” “Inside the Actor’s Studio,” and “Hollywood One On One,” among other programs. Available internationally for the first time, the “Tony Awards” was picked up by MICO for NHK (Japan), Pramer for Film & Arts Channel (Latin America), Sky Television for The Arts Channels (New Zealand) and Foxtel for BIO Channel (Australia). Meanwhile, broadcasters from Latin America, Israel and Turkey acquired “Inside the Actor’s Studio,” and companies from Turkey renewed [...]
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CABLEready announces post-MIPTV sales
May 7, 2010 CABLEready’s MIPTV let to a number of deals in Germany, Israel, Scandinavia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey for its non-fiction programming. They include the rights for the Tony Awards picked up by MICO for NHK, Pramer for Film & Arts Channel in Latin America, Sky Television for The Arts Channel in New Zealand, and Australia’s Foxtel for BIO Channel. Chef Anthony Bourdain’s show A Cook’s Tour has been picked up by Viasat in Sweden & Denwark and Chello Zone for Zone Club channel. Long-running series Inside [...]
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CABLEready Sells Tony Awards Internationally
NORWALK: CABLEready has secured a number of new sales and renewals for shows such as A Cook’s Tour, Inside the Actors Studio and the Tony Awards, which has been picked up by broadcasters in Japan, Latin America, New Zealand and Australia. The Tony Awards, a three-hour live event recognizing achievements in live theater, went to MICO for NHK in Japan and Pramer for Film & Arts Channel in Latin America. Also signing on for the awards show were Sky Television for The Arts Channel in New Zealand and Foxtel for [...]
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Al Jazeera and La Sexta picks up CABLEready’s programming
April 14, 2010 CABLEready has announced a new licensing agreement with Al Jazeera for documentary series and programs that will air on the network’s documentary channel. Titles include Fire & Ice, a one-hour doc on how Finland helped change the course of what would become World War II; Multiples, Multiples, a four-part one-hour series that looks at families of multiples; Stunt Stars, a 10-part one-hour series about stunt men and women, and Billion Dollar Disasters, a five-part one-hour series that examines instances of man vs. weather. Additionally, CABLEready has announced [...]
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MIPTV 2010
April 13, 2010 CABLEready made new licensing deals involving several docu-series and programs with Al Jazeera set to air on the network’s documentary channel. Titles include: Fire & Ice (1 ep, 60m HD); Multiples, Multiples (4 eps, 60m); Stunt Stars (10 eps, 60m HD); and Billion Dollar Disasters (5 eps, 60m). http://www.cynopsis.com/editions/cynopsis/041310/
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CABLEready Productions set to unveil ‘The Minimalist’ at MIPTV
April 6, 2010 Cooking show The Minimalist will get the MIPTV treatment, CABLEready Productions has announced. The development and production unit under CABLEready has produced 13 HD episodes of the half hour series hosted by New York Times food writer and TV personality Mark Bittman. Bittman teaches viewers how to prepare simple dishes from beginning to end in each themed episode. Bittman’s NY Times column is also called “The Minimalist,” which has spawned books and weekly videos.
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Factual (Listing)
Factual: Intersections Episodes 13 x 30’ HD Distributor CABLEready Produced by CABLEready Prods, Blue Chips Films, Bosch Media Synopsis High-tech machines of precision engineering, pushed to their limits by elite individuals.
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Passport to Adventure
While the travel industry continues to feel the effects of people trimming their budgets, the business for travel programming has been booming for distributors. The vast majority of the general public has never even heard of places such as Snæfellsjökull, Iceland; Yap, Micronesia; Popokvil Falls, Cambodia; or Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, yet one need only turn on the TV to be transported there instantly. Travel shows have been educating and entertaining viewers for decades, taking them around the globe to discover far-flung places or to rediscover some of the beauty and splendor [...]
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CABLEready places docs in Spain, Middle East
April 12, 2010 MIPTV: Broadcasters in Spain and the Middle East have picked up factual shows from US distributor CableReady in deals announced today in Cannes. Al-Jazeera has gone for one-hour high definition doc Fire & Ice, about Soviet Russia’s unsuccessful invasion of Finland during the Second World War; Multiples, Multiples (4×60′), which follows families with multiple children; Stunt Stars (10×60′, HD), which looks at the lives of stuntmen and women; and Billion Dollar Disasters (5×60′), about the human cost of extreme weather conditions. Spanish commercial net La Sexta has [...]
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