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Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we’ll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking to Turkish TV powerhouse Tims & B Productions. The company is coming off the back of launching new drama Another Love in Mipcom last month and Selin Arat, Director of International Operations at the company reveals what next steps are for the prolific producer and why Turkish TV content will continue to punch above its weight in the international arena.

When rival producers Timur Savcı and Burak Sağyaşar decided to join their two production outfits – Savcı’s Tims Productions and Sağyaşar’s Bi Yapım – in 2017, it marked a union of two of Turkey’s most prominent creators of television content. Savcı had been the producer behind Ottoman period drama Magnificent Century, a worldwide phenomenon that is...

With streaming services releasing a dizzying number of shows each year, not all can be successful, and Netflix has canceled multiple original shows in 2023. While Netflix was once considered the leader of original streaming content, the development of new streaming platforms has created more competition. With rising inflation, people are less willing to pay for multiple streaming subscriptions, making it imperative that platforms put out only the best content. Beginning on May 2, the 2023 Writers Guild strike has complicated matters even further, as it has halted TV production and shows no signs of slowing down.

In 2023, Netflix launched a new plan to cut down on password sharing, as they were losing revenue. While the move drew intense backlash, Netflix has seen an increase in subscribers since. Many Netflix users determined that the quality content library was worth paying for an extra account, but that doesn't change the fact that the streaming...

Producer Timur Savci a decade ago made “Magnificent Century” the Ottoman costume drama that spearheaded the country’s TV boom.

He is currently at the MipTV market in Cannes with his partner Burak Sağyaşar, with whom he co-heads prolific Turkish shingle Tims & B, launching their new show “Modern Woman” (pictured above) in which a young working woman in Turkey who is single and stuck in between Eastern and Western lifestyles. It’s the first time they’ve fully financed the first season of a series and taken it to market as a readymade. Global Agency is selling.

The Tims & B co-chiefs and the company’s director of international operations Selin Arat spoke exclusively to Variety about working with Netflix and Disney+, putting “Century” on the Metaverse, and why they’ve made “Modern Woman” themselves so they can hold on to their IP.

Tims is launching a new series “Modern Woman” at MipTV.

This year, for Christmas, Netflix is giving subscribers a wealth of new releases.

These include films you would have had a chance to see in the cinema in November – films like Glass Onion, which is Rian Johnson’s sequel to Knives Out.

There are also new Guillermo del Toro (Pinocchio), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Bardo) and Noah Baumbach (White Noise) films being added from the beginning of the month, right through to New Year’s Eve,

TV wise, there will be a new series of Emily in Paris to tear through while slumped on the sofa post-Christmas dinner, as well as a prequel spin-off to The Witcher and a spy series called Treason.

Fun for all the family, then. Find every movie and TV show coming to Netflix in December 2022 below.

And a rundown of everything being removed from the service from now until the end of the year here.

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This year, for Christmas, Netflix is giving subscribers a wealth of new releases.

These include films you would have had a chance to see in the cinema in November – films like Glass Onion, which is Rian Johnson’s sequel to Knives Out.

There are also new Guillermo del Toro (Pinocchio), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Bardo) and Noah Baumbach (White Noise) films being added from the beginning of the month, right through to New Year’s Eve,

TV wise, there will be a new series of Emily in Paris to tear through while slumped on the sofa post-Christmas dinner, as well as a prequel spin-off to The Witcher and a spy series called Treason.

Fun for all the family, then. Find every movie and TV show coming to Netflix in December 2022 below.

And a rundown of everything being removed from the service from now until the end of the year here.

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It’s almost the holiday season, which means that millions of travelers will soon find themselves in distant family members’ living rooms while Netflix blares on the TV. What Netflix shows and movies will be featured on those television sets? We now have a better idea as Netflix has released its list of new releases for December 2022.

It’s safe to say that movies are set to dominate this month. There is the usual holiday fare like Scrooge: A Christmas Carol on Dec. 2 but overall Netflix looks to be trying to end the year strong with some big ticket titles. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio arrives on Dec. 9. That will be followed by Rian Johnson’s next Benoit Blanc detective story, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, on Dec. 2. The end of the month closes out with White Noise, Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of the classic Don DeLillo novel, on Dec.

In December 2022, Netflix is bringing a new version of Charles Dickens' Christmas classic, a documentary about a filmmaker, a romantic drama movie based on a novel, Guillermo del Toro’s latest project, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest movie, more Parisian adventures from Emily, the sequel to Knives Out, the movie version of a musical, and a new adventure from the world of The Witcher. November saw the addition of the mystery movie Enola Holmes 2, the first part of the final season of Manifest, season 5 of The Crown, the Christmas movies Falling for Christmas, Christmas With You, and The Noel Diary, the fantasy movie Slumberland, and the supernatural TV series Wednesday.

On the licensed content front, December will see the arrival of a variety of content, most notably the buddy cop comedy 21 Jump Street, the coming-of-age drama My Girl, the epic historical war movie Troy, David Leitch’s Bullet Train,...