Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have optioned the rights to 11 books from Anne Rice's best-selling series The Vampire Chronicles.

NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment's preschool network Sprout is slated to rebrand as Universal Kids, targeted to young viewers between the ages of 2 and 11, in September 2017.

Western Europe is set to surpass 100 million pay-TV subscribers, and more gains are on the horizon in the next five years, according to Digital TV Research.

Google and Facebook together accounted for 20 percent of global advertising expenditure across all media in 2016, according to the new edition of Zenith’s Top Thirty Global Media Owners, which ranks the companies at number one and two, respectively.

The Putin Interviews, a series of interviews between filmmaker Oliver Stone (Platoon, Snowden) and Russian President Vladimir Putin, is premiering on Showtime beginning June 12.

Cinedigm is gearing up to launch Dove KIDS, a new 24/7 children's network featuring movies, TV shows, animation and educational content for young viewers between the ages of 5 and 12.

Cyber Group Studios' animated preschool series Gigantosaurus is slated to begin rolling out on Disney Junior Worldwide, excluding India and Taiwan, in 2019.

Vivicast Media has secured an agreement with BBC Worldwide that expands the programming lineup for the Caribbean satellite network CalaClassics.

BBC Worldwide and Skype have created the first-ever Doctor Who bot, which allows players to be the Doctor's companion in a specially written six-part adventure.

Piers Wenger, the controller of BBC Drama, has revealed more than 45 hours of new commissions, including an adaptation of the classic novel Little Women with Masterpiece on PBS and a London-Tokyo crime series with Netflix.