NEW YORK, March 18: E1 Entertainment has been ramping up its one-hour drama business. In this video interview, John Moyraniss, the CEO of E1 Television, discusses the company's strategy.

MENLO PARK, March 18: Among individuals aged 13 to 54 with Internet access, 22 percent are watching full TV episodes online—via streaming and downloads—up from 8 percent three years ago, according to Knowledge Networks.

CANNES, March 18: The Producers' Forum at MIPTV—organized in association with World Screen—will feature a series of sessions on co-producing with key international territories, including Japan.

LONDON, March 18: Five has commissioned Don't Stop Believing, a live entertainment event featuring musical performance groups, produced by Shine TV and GroupM Entertainment.

UNIVERSAL CITY, March 18: Donald Trump's boardroom will be open for candidates who have been affected by the decline in the job market in a new version of The Apprentice for NBC.

LONDON, March 18: ITV Studios Global Entertainment has taken on the worldwide distribution rights to Sky 1's hit factual reality series Pineapple Dance Studios.

BEIJING, March 18: Shanghai Media Group has acquired the rights to produce its own version of the Emmy-winning reality series The Amazing Race, via a deal with Disney-ABC International Television.

NEW YORK, March 18: Following the success of its Wednesday night series Ghost Hunters and Destination Truth, Syfy is adding a new dedicated reality block to its schedule on Thursday nights.

LOS ANGELES, March 18: Winchester Capital Management, founded in 2007 by Jean-Luc De Fanti and Jeff Sagansky, has announced a deal to finance season three of Electric Entertainment's Leverage, which launches on TNT this year.

LONDON, March 18: Outright Distribution will have an exclusive first look over all Title Role Productions' newly commissioned product for 18 months, and will secure ten-year distribution rights for shows coming through under the deal.

LONDON, March 18: Channel 4 has ordered a new 8x1-hour series from Studio Lambert, tentatively titled The Village, in which a group of eight participants will have the opportunity to start a new life in a close-knit rural community.

TORONTO, March 18: The half-hour comedy Pure Pwnage, based on the hit web property, is to make its debut to the international market at MIPTV in the catalogue of Sphinx Productions.

LONDON, March 18: RDF Rights has secured a deal with Keshet Broadcasting to represent its new entertainment format Deal With It!, a half-hour hidden-camera game show, which will make its debut at MIPTV.

STOCKHOLM, March 18: NonStop Television has reached a distribution agreement with On Digital Media (ODM), a new platform, that takes the Showtime, Star! and Silver channels to South Africa.

BURBANK, March 18: Marc Hirschfeld has signed a contract with Starz Media to serve as a casting consultant for original programming on Starz' premium entertainment channels

NEW YORK, March 17: In this video interview, Discovery Communications’ president and CEO, David Zaslav, reflects on what has made the company’s brands so strong over the last 25 years and what's still ahead.

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, March 17: The Hollywood studios and several U.S. cable platforms have joined forces for a $30 million TV, print and online campaign called "The Video Store Just Moved In," illustrating the range of on-demand movies available to digital cable customers.

NEW YORK, March 17: Total advertising expenditures in the U.S. fell by 12.3 percent to $125.3 billion last year, reports Kantar Media, but the decline did slow towards the end of the year, with Q4 ad spending down just 6 percent on the year-ago period.

LONDON, March 17: The Royal Television Society (RTS) has announced the winners for the Programme Awards, which celebrate all genres of programming.

NEW YORK, March 17: Syfy has ordered the 90-minute pilot Three Inches, an action-adventure fantasy from writer Harley Peyton, whose previous credits include Twin Peaks.

PARIS/COPENHAGEN, March 17: Banijay Entertainment Group has created a new distribution division, Banijay International, incorporating Nordisk Film TV World, which it acquired last October.

HILVERSUM, March 17: Entering into its fifth joint venture in three months, Talpa Media has inked a deal with Shine Group for a new co-owned outfit aimed at the markets of Australia and New Zealand.

LOS ANGELES, March 17: Comcast International Media Group (CIMG) has signed a number of channel deals for E! International Network, with new launches in France, the Netherlands and Macedonia.

LONDON, March 17: UKTV has picked up the U.S. version of Who Do You Think You Are? from Outright Distribution for its family entertainment channel Watch.

NEW YORK, March 17: Scripps Networks Interactive has tapped Passion Distribution to represent programs from Food Network, HGTV and DIY Network in the international market, kicking off with 13 titles that will be launched at MIPTV.

LONDON, March 17: The high-definition version of Five is to start broadcasting to more than 2 million Sky+HD homes this July.

SINGAPORE, March 17: The general-entertainment pay-TV channel AXN is to launch in high definition in Southeast Asia this May.

NEW YORK, March 17: Hallmark Channel has acquired the exclusive license for the domestic TV rights to a range of lifestyle programming from the library of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia to air as part of its soon-to-launch seven-hour home and lifestyle programming block.

LONDON, March 17: On Demand Group has clinched a deal to bring a slate of long-form content from Disney—including episodes of Lost and Desperate Housewives—to 3 U.K.'s mobile SVOD service.

NEW YORK, March 17: The premium service EPIX is working with Media Rights Capital (MRC) and Larry Charles on a new half-hour single-camera comedy series, ICON.