LONDON: Brand Licensing Europe (BLE) has revealed the four finalists of its annual License This! competition. Now in its sixth year, the challenge offers those with brand-new creative concepts the chance to break into the global licensing industry. The finalists ...

LONDON: ITV has confirmed that its long-running drama Lewis will come to a close with a two-part film, What Lies Tangled, this month. Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox are retiring after playing detective duo Robbie Lewis and James Hathaway in Lewis for the past ten years. The drama was commissioned ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Global TV site Viki is due to release its first original series, Dramaworld, in early 2016. The ten-episode dramedy will feature an international cast and will be written in English and Korean. Filming is set to begin later this month in Seoul. The project is a co-production with ...

SINGAPORE: NeweN Distribution has a new title from the creator of Witnesses called Beyond the Walls, which is a thriller about a young woman trapped in a haunted house. NeweN also has a second season of the hit preschool program Polo. “We believe that Polo, a beautiful non-dialogue animation series ...

LOS ANGELES: NBCUniversal Hispanic Group’s Fluency Productions has teamed up with Samsung and Toyota to produce the English-language sci-fi thriller Reversion, due out in select theaters next month. The movie will also air on Syfy, with a version dubbed in Spanish set for broadcast on U.S. Hispanic networks Telemundo and ...

LONDON: Cartoon Network has released its latest Adventure Time mobile game, BMO Snaps, which is now available on iTunes for iOS devices. BMO Snaps allows users to play as BMO and help Princess Bubblegum build a holographic encyclopedia about the history of Ooo and its inhabitants. The game features a ...

LOS ANGELES: The National Football League (NFL) has partnered with Snapchat to deliver content through the popular social platform. The partnership, which centers on Snapchat’s Live Story product, made its debut during the first week of the NFL’s 2015 season. The weekly NFL Live Story will mix fan-submitted Snaps and ...

LOS ANGELES/CANNES: Splash Entertainment is heading to MIPCOM with the animated action-adventure family film Tellur Aliens, for which the company has secured the exclusive distribution rights from Frame One Animation. The film follows the adventures of three school friends as they embark on a mission to overcome obstacles and save ...

LOS ANGELES: The series Scream Queens and Empire (season two) are set for simultaneous international releases in all of FOX International Channels' (FIC) licensed markets within 24 hours of their U.S. debuts on FOX. Outside of the U.S., the comedy/horror anthology ...

PARIS: The French OTT platform Molotov, which was created by Jean-David Blanc and Pierre Lescure, has secured deals with more than 80 channels ahead of its launch. The platform was announced in June by Blanc, the founder of French cinema entertainment service AlloCiné, and Lescure, founder of CANAL+. Ahead of ...