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Bert Habets, group CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media, tells World Screen Newsflash about restructuring to weather short- and long-term shifts in the media economy, rationalizing international content spend and betting big on local entertainment that will resonate with audiences and advertisers alike.

Netflix has renewed the docureality series Love on the Spectrum for a third season, produced by Northern Pictures.

Electric Entertainment has named Firefly Brand Management as the exclusive U.S. licensing agent for its upcoming series The Librarians: The Next Chapter.

Apploff Entertainment has aligned with musician Stevie Van Zandt to launch the new format The Jam, which mixes music, culture and technology.

Stars Collective has optioned Shawn M. Warner’s Leigh Howard and the Ghosts of Simmons-Pierce Manor to explore potential TV and film adaptations.

Rochella Ann Salvador, officer-in-charge and senior sales manager of GMA Network’s Worldwide Division, highlights a slate of titles with global reach and a Filipino heart.

Sesame Workshop has introduced new bilingual resources in honor of Autism Acceptance Month as part of its Sesame Street and Autism: See Amazing in All Children initiative.

Toon Factory’s new series How to Squoosh is set to air on CANAL+kids in France.

Leading Bavaria Media International’s MIPTV slate, Port Poison follows a 25-year-old engineering student who puts his morals aside to sell drugs to raise money for his alcoholic mother’s treatment.

ORF-Enterprise’s Kafka is lined up to premiere concurrently with the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s passing.