LOS ANGELES: Following a 24-year tenure at Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution (TCFTD), Marion Edwards will exit the role of president of international television at the end of 2016.
Read More »FYI Channel Debuts in India
MUMBAI: The FYI TV18 channel has launched in India, marking the second factual-entertainment network brought to the country in a partnership between A+E Networks and TV18.
Read More »Sprout to Premiere New Live-Action Show Terrific Trucks
NEW YORK: Celebrity couple Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are set to guest star in episodes of Terrific Trucks, a new live-action series debuting this weekend on preschool channel Sprout.
Read More »Lifetime Preps Sea Change Pilot
LOS ANGELES: Lifetime, MarVista Entertainment and Pillar/Segan have begun production on the pilot Sea Change (working title), based on New York Times best-selling author Aimee Freidman’s YA novel of the same name.
Read More »Spike Commissions That Awkward Game Show
NEW YORK: Spike has given the go-ahead to its first in-studio game show, to be produced by the outfit behind Hell’s Kitchen and American Ninja Warrior.
Read More »Billy on the Street Heads to Hulu
SANTA MONICA: Turner's truTV has signed an SVOD agreement with Hulu that will see the variety sketch show Billy on the Street become available on the streaming service.
Read More »Turner’s Adult Swim Lands on 9GO! in Oz
SYDNEY: Turner's comedy brand Adult Swim is slated to launch as a weekly programming block on Nine's 9GO! in Australia this month.
Read More »The Digital Domination of DreamWorksTV
Birk Rawlings, the head of DreamWorksTV, discusses the YouTube destination, which features original live-action and animated short-form content.
Read More »WME-IMG to Buy UFC
BEVERLY HILLS: WME-IMG is set to acquire the MMA organization UFC in a deal valued at $4 billion.
Read More »Untold Stories of the E.R. Leads GRB’s Factual Sales
SHERMAN OAKS: GRB Entertainment has secured international deals for several titles from its factual catalog, including the docudrama Untold Stories of the E.R.
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