Sara Alessi

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Worldwide Television Distribution has appointed Tomas Davison as its senior VP of international television distribution for Latin America and U.S. Hispanic.

Turkey’s Inter Medya and Mexico’s TV Azteca are returning as MIP Cancun’s Global and Platinum partners, respectively.

FOX Sports Latin America is launching in Mexico and Central America FOX Sports Premium, a sports entertainment offer that will join FOX Sports’ channel portfolio as of January 2019.

Endemol Shine Brazil is launching a new specialized department for scripted and documentary projects that will invest in local talent and ideas by developing new projects for the Brazilian market.

TV Azteca International has secured an agreement that will bring Nothing Personal and several other titles to Gamavisión in Ecuador.

Amazon Prime Video has secured Mexican actor, writer, director and producer Eugenio Derbez to host the variety show LOL: Last One Laughing.

A+E Networks has sold a raft of its TV movies, including Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy, starring Hayden Panettiere, to Hispanic broadcasters in the U.S.

Imagen Televisión is set to broadcast WWE’s flagship programs Raw and SmackDown on free-to-air TV in Mexico.

Ricardo Rubini has been promoted to the post of senior VP of sales for Latin America and the Caribbean at Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.

Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) – Americas has secured distribution deals for its original formats with SVOD, pay-TV and free-to-air broadcasters through its expanded production and distribution division Viacom International Studios (VIS).