U.S. arts network Ovation has acquired rights for two series from BBC Studios, including the drama Maigret.

Leslie Lee has been named VP of kids’ content for Cartoon Network, Boomerang and POGO networks in the Asia Pacific, effective immediately.

In the new Discovery and Science Channel series tentatively titled Uncharted, urban explorer Justin Fornal will use detailed historical maps and high-tech imaging to investigate elusive mysteries.

Chris Paul, the Houston Rockets NBA All-Star point guard and entrepreneur, and his company Oh Dipp!!! Productions have signed an exclusive overall development and production partnership with Big Fish Entertainment.

At MIPTV in Cannes, ORF-Enterprise secured a number of deals, including several for blue-chip documentaries from ORF's UNIVERSUM nature and history division such as Wild Shetland and Russia’s Wild Sea.

BBC Studios has appointed Kate Oates, currently senior executive producer, as head of continuing drama.

Attaboy TV, a London- and Yorkshire-based indie, is to make an episode for the BBC’s Panorama current affairs strand about last December’s drone attack at the U.K.'s Gatwick Airport.

Sesame Workshop is set to be one of the primary providers of Spanish-language content for HITN’s new SVOD service for preschool children, Edye.

Incendo’s feature film The Lead, starring Perrey Reeves (Entourage, Famous in Love), among others, begins filming today, April 15, in Montreal.

Rainbow has entered into a partnership with Lisle Licensing for its animated preschool series 44 Cats across the U.K.