The Peabody Awards board of jurors has selected Norman Lear to receive an Individual Award and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) an Institutional Award for their contributions to storytelling in television.

MIPDoc, along with MIPFormats, drew some 1,800 participants the weekend before MIPTV, and in the doc sector, high-end projects reigned supreme.

DHX Media has signed nine new distribution deals for season one of the animated comedy-adventure series Fangbone!

Amazon is currently developing an animated children's show, tentatively titled South Street Sounds, as well as a live-action kids' series with Grammy-winning hip-hop band The Roots and their Passyunk Productions.

David Morrissey (The Missing, The Walking Dead) is attached to play Inspector Tyador Borlú in the BBC Two adaptation of China Miéville's novel The City & the City.

E! Entertainment has greenlit a second season of its latest original scripted series The Arrangement, written by Jonathan Abrahams (Mad Men).

ITV has ordered a second season of the comedy panel show Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule.

Tubi TV, a free internet TV streaming network, has added to its library all 366 episodes of the anime hit Bleach through a deal with VIZ Media.

Freeform has scheduled its weekend-long Funday programming event featuring classic animated Disney films such as Pocahontas and live-action favorites like Matilda for the weekend of April 22 to 23.

Executives from ZDF Enterprises, NHNZ, PBS, CCTV9, ARTE France and ZDF weighed in on co-productions in a MIPDoc keynote superpanel moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati ahead of the premiere of the blue-chip series Big Pacific.