LONDON: UKTV and 20th Century Fox Television have signed a deal for the new medical crime drama Rosewood, to air on the Alibi channel in the U.K.
Read More »MGM Television Names VP of Business & Legal Affairs for Scripted Team
LOS ANGELES: Former Endemol Shine North America exec Michael Minden has joined MGM Television as executive VP of business and legal affairs for scripted television.
Read More »PwC Outlook on Entertainment & Media
Key findings in PwC’s latest five-year outlook on entertainment and media revenues, which points to “unprecedented challenges” for companies in this changing landscape, include internet advertising overtaking broadcast in the U.S. for the first time next year and China becoming the world’s box-office leader.
Read More »Amazon Original Kids’ Series Just Add Magic Renewed
SEATTLE: Amazon has renewed its original live-action kids' series Just Add Magic for a second season.
Read More »Mondo TV Names Lawless as U.S. Rep for Sissi, The Drakers
LOS ANGELES/ROME: Lawless Entertainment has been appointed as the broadcast and licensing and merchandising representative in the U.S. for Mondo TV’s Sissi, the Young Empress and The Drakers.
Read More »DR’s Maria Rørbye Rønn to Receive International Emmy Directorate Award
NEW YORK: Maria Rørbye Rønn, the CEO and director general of Danish Broadcasting Corporation, will receive the 2016 International Emmy Directorate Award.
Read More »Endemol Shine North America & True Entertainment Pact with Left Hook
LOS ANGELES: Endemol Shine North America and its subsidiary production company True Entertainment have signed Left Hook Media to overall production deals.
Read More »marblemedia Appoints Former Bell Media Exec to New Scripted Role
TORONTO: marblemedia has tapped Carrie Paupst Shaughnessy for the newly created role of VP of scripted.
Read More »Hemisphere Group’s U.S. Hispanic Networks Highlight New Programming
MIAMI: Hemisphere Media Group’s U.S. Hispanic channels WAPA America and Cinelatino have unveiled their 2016-17 programming slate, which includes four exclusive, original multiscreen movies co-produced with Argos Comunicaciones.
Read More »BBC Announces VR Push
LONDON: BBC has unveiled plans for its move into the virtual reality space, posting several in-the-works projects to the experimental-ideas platform BBC Taster.
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