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Bell Media's 2025/26 slate will include a comedy series from Elliot Page's production house, new shows from Tom Green and Jared Keeso and a batch of U.S. acquisitions, as the Canadian broadcaster puts plans in place to supercharge streamer Crave with more network fare.

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Banijay Entertainment 's co-head of scripted has given his assessment of the current scripted market, suggesting that the budgeting challenges of the post-peak TV could give rise to better television. In an on-stage interview with Deadline at Seriencamp, he added that the upside to streamers lowering their spend is that their budgets are now more "stable" and simpler to plan around.

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Kelly Souders, the co-showrunner of Superman drama Smallville and co-creator of The Hot Zone, has had her say on the complicated relationship between producers and creatives. In a panel hosted by Deadline in Germany at Seriencamp yesterday, Souders railed against producers whose primary goal is imposing their will on a production without considering how to connect with their creative counterpart. "As a producer, you're constantly giving notes and you need to figure out your goal.

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Generate Key TakeawaysPrime Video Germany has unveiled a major 2025/26 slate at an event at the Balloni Halls in Cologne today.

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Canada's CBC is the latest network to give a greenlight to unique interview format The Assembly, as the pubcaster rolled out its 2025/26 slate. The Canadian version of the show, which began life on France 2 in 2022, will run to six parts and comes from Small Army Entertainment. In each episode, one of Canada's most popular celebrities and public figures will face a group of 30 atypical interviewers, all on the autism spectrum.