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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SYDNEY: Turner's comedy brand Adult Swim is slated to launch as a weekly programming block on Nine's 9GO! in Australia this month.

Birk Rawlings, the head of DreamWorksTV, discusses the YouTube destination, which features original live-action and animated short-form content.

BEVERLY HILLS: WME-IMG is set to acquire the MMA organization UFC in a deal valued at $4 billion.

SHERMAN OAKS: GRB Entertainment has secured international deals for several titles from its factual catalog, including the docudrama Untold Stories of the E.R.