Deutschland 83 Production and Distribution – Media Industry

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 A company founded in August 2013 for fiction film and television

productions of the UFA based in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
 The company was created through the merger of the UFA subsidiaries
teamWorx, Phoenix Film and UFA Fernsehproduktion in the context of
a restructuring of UFA and the strategic goal to bundle all companies
under one brand in the future.
 With UFA Fiction, all production activities of the UFA in the branch of
series, TV movies, events and feature films are bundled in one
company. Managing directors of UFA Fiction are Benjamin Benedict,
Joachim Kosack, Markus Brunnemann, Sebastian Werninger and Joerg
Winger.
 Films produced: Deutschland 83 (2015), Deutschland 89 (2020),
Deutschland 86 (2018).

 A video-on-demand service of the UK's Channel 4, part of its All 4

online platform. Launched on 3 January 2016, it specialises in foreign-
language drama and comedy with English subtitles. It is named after
Walter Iuzzolino, who selects its content.
 The service was later offered as an ad-free subscription service in the
United States in March 2017, In the UK, the service is a partnership
between Channel 4 and Global Series Network. It is free to view and
supported by advertisements and in Australia via a Foxtel service in
November 2017.
 The service aims to avoid so-called art-house programming in favour of
more mainstream productions that compete with Netflix and Amazon
Prime for audiences already familiar with such Nordic dramas such as
The Bridge. Iuzzolino set three criteria for selection: the show must be
popular in its native country, as were Homeland and House of Cards in
the United States; it must be "award-winning or already critically
acclaimed"; and it must have "the finest writing, directing and acting
that each country has to offer...something worth our time as viewers"

 Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American

pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on
February 1, 1996.
 Originally, Sundance was devoted to airing documentaries,
independent feature films, short films, world cinema, and coverage on
the latest developments from each year's Sundance Film Festival. The
channel has since incorporated both original and acquired
programming and became fully ad-supported in 2013, with
programming being edited for content soon thereafter.
 Sundance Now is not free with Amazon Prime or Roku. You can
subscribe to the service through Amazon Prime Video and on Roku via
the Roku Channel Store.

 RTL Group (for "Radio Television Luxembourg") is a Luxembourg-based

international media conglomerate, with another corporate centre in
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Cologne, Germany. The company operates 68 television channels and
31 radio stations in Germany, France and other European countries. It
also offers national streaming platforms, content productions and a
range of digital services. Important segments of RTL Group are RTL
Deutschland, Groupe M6, Fremantle and RTL Nederland.

 Fremantle is a British multinational television production and

distribution company based in London.
 Fremantle owns non-scripted formats, including the British talent
competitions Idols (created by Simon Fuller), Got Talent and The X
Factor (both created by Simon Cowell), shows which have been sold
around the world. Since 1994, Fremantle has distributed American
game shows in the US and internationally.

 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel

owned and operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television
Corporation. It is publicly owned, unlike the BBC, it receives no public
funding and is instead funded entirely by its own commercial activities.
It began its transmission in 1982 and was established to provide a
fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only
other channels were the licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a
single commercial broadcasting network ITV.