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Tim Davie, CEO of BBC Studios, was interviewed by World Screen Newsflash’s Anna Carugati on the stage of the Grand Auditorium at MIPCOM, discussing the importance of the merger with BBC Worldwide and how it has enabled the company to ramp up its focus on “British bold creativity.”

BET Networks has acquired Carl Weber’s The Family Business, based on The New York Times best-selling author’s family crime drama novel.

Josh Sapan, president and CEO of AMC Networks, weighed in on the company’s approach to storytelling at MIPCOM, where he and Fear the Walking Dead star Colman Domingo were interviewed on the stage of the Grand Auditorium by World Screen Newsflash’s Anna Carugati.

BBC America has greenlit the new original series The Watch, based on Sir Terry Pratchett’s popular Discworld novels.

The international version of The Great Wall, a documentary from the China International Television Corporation (CITVC) catalog, has been sold to ORF in Austria and France 5.

Freeform is in development on Joyland, a series based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and NZ On Air are continuing their collaboration, which is now in its fifth year, to encourage the co-production of digital media content between Canadian and New Zealand creators.

Peter Jackson’s World War I archive feature film They Shall Not Grow Old will make its broadcast premiere exclusively on BBC Two in the U.K. on November 11.

Viacom's Nick Jr. Too has snapped up the broadcast rights for Nevision's popular show Floogals, which is distributed by Zodiak Kids.

As part of a rebranding, Network Ten will now be known as Network 10 across all assets, and a direct-to-consumer streaming and subscription VOD service, 10 All Access, is set to launch in December.