Olobob Top, an animated preschool series produced by Beakus, has been renewed for a 26x5-minute second installment that is due to debut on CBeebies, ABC and S4C in spring 2019.

Telefónica has won the battle for the bulk of the broadcast rights to La Liga football in Spain.

In the Dark from LNK in Lithuania has been selected as the winner of the third edition of Pitch & Play Live!, which took place yesterday evening at NATPE Budapest International.

AMC Networks International (AMCNI) has promoted Patrick Connolly to senior VP of programming for AMC/SundanceTV Global.

Nadav Palti, the CEO and president of Dori Media Group, talks to World Screen Newsflash about a recent restructure of the company’s sales operation, its new office in Madrid and its relationship with TV Azteca.

Hasbro is launching a new YouTube series of animated stop-motion shorts set in the Play-Doh world.

Netflix has ordered a new original series based on Midnight’s Children, Sir Salman Rushdie’s 1981 seminal work of fiction.

Smithsonian Channel has slated the new wildlife documentary King of the Desert Lions, which follows the plight of the endangered big cats, for a summer premiere.

The team from the BBC One drama A Very English Scandal, including actor Hugh Grant and writer Russell T Davies, are taking part in an exclusive masterclass at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

Kylie Padilla and Ruru Madrid, who starred together in the hit fantasy series Encantadia, are set to reunite in another TV project, GMA’s sci-fi series The Cure.