AMC Networks’ Acorn TV has appointed Kerensa Samanidis to the newly created role of general manager of international.

Reed MIDEM has outlined the first phase of its transformation of MIPTV 2020 with a redesign of the exhibition.

Flip or Flop star Tarek El Moussa has inked a deal with HGTV to star in a new original series for the network, Flipping 101 w/ Tarek El Moussa.

Among the raft of highlights revealed by National Geographic during its TCA presentation is Mission OceanX (working title), a new series from James Cameron and BBC Studios' Natural History Unit.

MIPCOM 2019, which will be held under the theme The Streaming Offensive, has confirmed as keynote speakers Amazon Studios' James Farrell, Twitter’s Kay M. Madati and Tubi's Farhad Massoudi and Adam Lewinson.

The television journalist Dorothy Byrne has been selected to deliver the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the 2019 Edinburgh Television Festival.

BBC One has commissioned the original four-part series Best Interests from BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials, The Virtues, National Treasure).

There were 159 M&A deals in the media and telecoms sector in the U.S. in Q2, up from 155 in the first quarter, with overall deal value rising from $6.7 billion to $36.6 billion, according to PwC.

FOX has ordered a ten-episode third season of Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back.

Singapore’s Mediacorp is set to premiere the second season of the local adaptation of the Nippon TV unscripted format Old Enough! on National Day (August 9).