Foundation Media Partners (Bad Guys, Thelma the Unicorn) has signed a first-look deal with Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing for film and TV adaptations of book properties.

Paramount+ has commissioned Playing Gracie Darling, a brand-new murder mystery from Curio Pictures.

The leading SVOD streamers in the U.S. have eclipsed live TV as the “first place to turn to watch.”

Polly Pocket: Adventures in Rio, a new 66-minute special from Mattel Television Studios and WildBrain, has debuted on Prime Video in the U.S. and the U.K.

Netflix has signed the award-winning producer, writer and actor Richard Gadd, behind the hit Baby Reindeer, to create more scripted television.

Superprod Animation and Red Monk Studio have begun production on their upcoming animated series Underdog, based on the U.S. property created in the 1950s.

The planned merger of Super RTL and Nickelodeon has been withdrawn, after the German Federal Cartel Office informed RTL and Paramount that it intended to block the deal.

Prime Video in India is getting its own local version of the hit format The Traitors, in partnership with All3Media International and BBC Studios India Productions.

Jimmy George, VP of sales and acquisitions at GoQuest Media, talks about the partnership with Telekom Srbija and the two new titles that it brings to the catalog: Absolute 100 and South Wind: On the Edge.

The latest episode from the World Screen podcast is now available: FAST Kids.