LONDON: Following on its delivery of Prime Video in Japan, Amazon is now making its Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick available in the country. Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick provide easy and fast access for Japanese customers to stream movies, TV shows, live TV, sports and ...

LONDON: STV Productions has hired Peter Collins, who previously worked for Oxford Scientific Films, as the company's executive producer for factual. Collins' new position takes effect on January 4, 2016. He will work out of London under Dan Korn, STV Productions' recently named creative director. Prior to this appointment, Collins ...

MUNICH: Red Arrow Entertainment Group has launched a new digital media company in Los Angeles, Ripple Entertainment. Ripple will launch and operate vertically focused networks, producing original content with Red Arrow production companies, external strategic partners and independent creators. Ripple Entertainment will also act as Red Arrow's hub for digital ...

BURBANK: ABC Family, ABC Studios and ABC Signature have signed a two-year overall development deal with Wonderland Sound & Vision, a production company founded by director-producer McG. Under the agreement, McG will direct and develop scripted drama and comedy series and produce digital content for a variety of platforms. He currently ...

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has sold more than 180 hours of content into India and the Far East, including package deals in China and Thailand. China’s Red Apollo Group has signed on for new-media rights to 14 documentaries and series, including The Hunt for Hitler’s Missing Millions, Planes That Changed ...

HONG KONG: Turner and PCCW have entered into a partnership that sees a slew of Korean entertainment, premium drama series as well as variety and music programming from MBC become available across a number of platforms. Starting January 12, now TV subscribers can access a selection of shows on Turner’s ...

TORONTO: 9 Story Media Group has signed a number of new broadcast agreements for the hit animated preschool series Peg + Cat, which originally premiered on PBS Kids in fall 2013. Canada's Treehouse snapped up the show's second season. Super RTL in Germany, along with Canal+ Family and Piwi+ in France ...

BEIJING: The Chinese online video service iQIYI is planning to purchase or produce more than 40 new shows in 2016, committing around 50 percent of its budget for the full year to this effort. The service currently has more than 500 million users and 5 million paid subscribers. It boasts ...

CANNES: Telemundo Internacional has signed an agreement to become the exclusive distributor of HBO Latin America Originals in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Oceania as of January 2016. Under the agreement, Telemundo Internacional will represent the catalogue of fiction and documentary series for HBO Latin America in the ...

SINGAPORE: Turner has commissioned Beach House Pictures to produce A World Icon: Singapore Botanic Gardens, an original documentary that is due to debut on the recently launched World Heritage Channel in Asia. A World Icon: Singapore Botanic Gardens spotlights the planet's first and only tropical botanic gardens to be inscribed ...