The Weinstein Company launches int’l TV distrib unit
7 April 2008
New York/ Cannes - The Weinstein Company has created a new international television division which will look to distribute its diverse slate of highly acclaimed and commercially successful television shows to the international market.
The new infrastructure will continue the multi-tiered company’s transformation into a full-fledged independent international sales and distribution entity across a broad range of mediums. To jumpstart the division’s launch, TWC makes its inaugural appearance at MIP, with plans to globally distribute the top-rated The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, based on Alexander McCall Smith’s global best selling series of the same name.
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