‘The Inbetweeners’ pulled from YouTube over rights issue, Channel 4 confirms

Peter White Television EditorAMC will air British drama Gangs of London in the U.S. after HBO’s Cinemax dropped out of the project, which has been renewed for a second season.The series, which was created by The Raid’s Gareth Evans, was originally commissioned by Sky and Cinemax in 2017, as revealed by Deadline.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorSTX has snapped up worldwide distribution rights to genre pic Run Rabbit Run, which will re-team Elisabeth Moss with The Handmaid’s Tale director Daina Reid.STXfilms will directly distribute in the U.S., UK and Ireland with STXinternational now aboard for international sales at the Cannes Virtual Market.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNickelodeon has a dizzying array of popular animated characters at its disposal. Now it has a few more: The Smurfs.The ViacomCBS outlet has struck a deal with the worldwide licensors of the popular blue figures, LAFIG Belgium and IMPS, under which it will launch a new animated series and manage consumer products licensing for the property across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Malaysia.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorAMC has snatched the U.S.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorPaul Heaney, the founder of UK television sales house TCB Media Rights, is leaving the company he founded just weeks after it exited the collapsed Kew Media Group and was acquired by Australian producer and distributor Beyond International.Heaney and executive director Dina Subhani have stepped down with immediate effect.

LONDON -- One of the most memorable episodes of one of the most popular British sitcoms of all-time has been withdrawn from a U.K. streaming service because of numerous racial slurs.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Banijay Rights is in the process of taking control of the global rights to The Inbetweeners — a transition that has caused the comedy’s YouTube channel to go dark.DRG has long held the international rights to the show, but this deal ended in recent weeks and the rights are being transferred to Banijay, which owns Inbetweeners producer Bwark Productions.

Netflix chiefs have pulled four of Australian comedian Chris Lilley’s shows due to their inclusion of blackface or racially insensitive characters. Earlier this week, BBC and Netflix executives pulled British TV comedy Little Britain from online streaming platforms following the Black Lives Matter protests that have spread across the world since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minnesota on 25 May.

Netflix chiefs have pulled four of Australian comedian Chris Lilley’s shows that feature him using blackface or playing other racially insensitive characters.

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