CANNES: Dramas are at the top of RTVE’s slate for MIPTV, with the time-traveling series The Department of Time a particular market highlight.

LOS ANGELES: Splash Entertainment co-CEO Nicolas Atlan is departing the company, which has promoted Mike Young to chairman, Steve Rosen to co-CEO and David Di Lorenzo to head of Kabillion.

World Screen, in partnership with Reed MIDEM, is launching the Factual Trendsetter Awards at MIPDoc to honor four individuals who have made significant contributions to the television business.

LOS ANGELES: Electus has revealed a number of promotions at Electus International, while also unveiling several of the company's highlights for this year's MIPTV.

A range of distributors tell Mansha Daswani about the new opportunities in the booming scripted-formats business.

SINGAPORE: BBC First has secured its first Southeast Asian carriage deal, with an April 4 launch set for the service on StarHub in Singapore.

CANNES: Killer Women, a Pol-ka Producciones title distributed by MediaBiz, has been selling as a format worldwide for a decade.

LOS ANGELES: DanceOn, an entertainment-focused digital-media programming brand co-founded by Madonna, and go90 have slated the premiere of the competition series Dance-Off Juniors for April 20 on the mobile-first entertainment platform.

LOS ANGELES: Neil Cross (Luther) is adapting Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels, the acclaimed books that begin with The Talented Mr. Ripley, as a series.

The actor talks about the 1980s-set show Hap and Leonard, billed as a “darkly comic swamp noir” with two unlikely best friends, a get-rich-quick scheme and plenty of eccentric characters.