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Roger Tong has been tapped as the new executive director and CEO of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings (AsiaSat) following the resignation of Andrew Jordan.

The first annual Lille Transatlantic Dialogues, set for May 3 as part of Series Mania's European Project and Talent Forum, has lined up as speakers Netflix's Reed Hastings, Endemol Shine's Sophie Turner Laing and TF1 Group's Gilles Pélisson, among others.

Endemol Shine Group has revealed that Big Brother Italy will be the first of its formats to use a new cloud-based production workflow system built on Microsoft Azure since the two companies tied up in 2017.

Starz has acquired a number of titles that originally debuted on the now-shuttered comedy subscription streaming service Seeso, including Take My Wife seasons one and two.

The Cartel is bringing in Drew Brown, former president of Brownstone Entertainment and Fascination Street, to head up its television division.

In partnership with Singapore's Perfect World Pictures, Asia TV Forum is launching a new pitching platform at this year's event for Chinese-language content.

Passion Distribution has appointed Sean Wheatley, formerly the senior acquisitions manager at FremantleMedia International, as head of acquisitions.

Michael Rosen, a children's novelist, poet, broadcaster, columnist and more, is slated to give the opening keynote at this year's Children's Media Conference (CMC), which is being held in Sheffield from July 3 to 5.

CANAL+ Group has secured carriage for the CANAL+ International and CNEWS channels in the U.S. through DIRECTV.

Vishnu Athreya has been promoted to senior VP of programming for Turner's Cartoon Network, working out of Atlanta under Rob Sorcher, the channel's chief content officer.