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Catalina Content has partnered with actress, activist and producer Mira Sorvino; her husband Christopher Backus; and her sister, Amanda Sorvino, an animal rescuer and 501c3 founder, for the new series Transformation Ranch.

Justin Wilkes, the president of Imagine Documentaries, is expanding his remit at the company to include chief creative officer of Imagine Entertainment.

HiddenLight Productions, the new production company founded by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sam Branson and Chelsea Clinton, has acquired the series adaptation rights to Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s The Daughters of Kobani.

Beach House Pictures (BHP), a Blue Ant Media company, has acquired a majority stake in the Tokyo-based production company Vesuvius Pictures.

Peter Mohan and Vanessa Shapiro have joined forces with author Josef Bastian to bring his young adult fantasy book series Folktellers: Excerpts from an Unknown Guidebook to television.

Ad spend in the U.K. will recover faster than other key international markets this year, according to the new Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report.

FOX in the U.S. has acquired the legal drama Diggstown, starring Vinessa Antoine (General Hospital, Being Erica), from Entertainment One (eOne).

SOMOS Productions and the Argentine production company Alianzas Producciones have partnered to co-produce the new youth series UMA Fantasma.

Distribution360 has a wide range of kids’ programming that covers preschool, school-age, tweens and teens, and now the company is moving into the rapidly growing family scripted space.

Genius Brands International’s Kartoon Channel! has new programming premieres coming up, including Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten, Shaq’s Garage and KC! Pop Quiz.