CULVER CITY: Charlie Sheen has signed on to star in and executive produce Crackle’s original movie Mad Families.

NEW YORK: Discovery Communications has named Michael Bishara as senior VP and general manager for OTT and digital syndication.

LONDON: The alien-led animated series Q Pootle 5 and creator Nick Butterworth are being featured in this year's World Space Week UK campaign, meant to encourage kids to have an interest in space.

QUÉBEC: Squeeze has inked a deal with Turner that will see the slapstick comedy Cracké premiere on Boomerang in the U.K., Germany, Italy and Portugal.

LONDON: Channel 4 has licensed the U.K. broadcast rights for This Is Us, part of NBC's fall lineup.

NEW YORK: Dolores Gavin is rejoining HISTORY in the newly created post of senior executive of development and production.

The creative force behind such unscripted mega hits as Big Brother, Deal Or No Deal and The Voice talks about how he now has more time to dedicate to brainstorming sessions, creating pilots and selling formats.

PARIS: Laurens Drillich, the president of Endemol Shine Latino; Joshua Mintz, deputy to the president of TV Azteca; and Tomas Yankelevich, the content and international business director at Telefe, have joined the lineup of the third MIP Cancun Latin American TV Market and Summit.

LONDON: DRG has four new format titles to launch at MIPCOM, led by the entertainment show Animal Attraction, which provides a fresh take on competitive dating.

LOS ANGELES: Sonar Entertainment has teamed up with Germany's Bavaria Fernsehproduktion and Sky Deutschland to co-produce and distribute the eight-episode series Das Boot.