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Playground has secured the film and TV rights to Imogen Hermes Gowar’s best-selling debut novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.

Set up in 2007, Ameba is a streaming service that specializes in content for children between the ages of 3 and 10 as well as their families.

The German premiere of the second season of The Good Fight is set for June 12 at 9 p.m. on FOX.

Advertising revenues across the Asia Pacific are set to rise 6.2 percent this year, following a 6.1-percent increase last year, to reach about $184 billion, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA).

The digital edition of World Screen—featuring interviews with Discovery’s David Zaslav, FremantleMedia’s Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Endemol Shine Group’s Sophie Turner Laing and NBCUniversal’s Cesar Conde, plus Seth MacFarlane, Freddie Highmore and many more—is now available. You can also access the digital editions of TV Europe, TV Kids, TV Drama, TV Formats, TV Real, TV Asia, TV MEA, TV Latina and TV Listings.

CBC Kids has given the go-ahead to the mixed-media series Holy Baloney from marblemedia for broadcast later this year.

DISCOP and ONGEA! Africa are presenting a new sidebar program, DISCORE, which will launch as a panel discussion at the Kalasha International TV & Film Market.

FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) has named Rick Glankler, former head of the FremantleMedia Kids & Family division that was recently acquired by Boat Rocker Media, as president of commercial operations.

Series Mania's European Project and Talent Forum has revealed the 16 projects chosen for the Co-Pro Pitching Sessions.

BBC One has ordered a 6x60-minute second installment of the Saturday night entertainment show All Together Now from Endemol Shine UK's Remarkable Television.