Sky Vision has increased its holdings in producer Avanti Media, now owning a majority 51-percent stake.

The eighth edition of Asian Side of the Doc, which celebrates the best of factual programming, is slated to kick off later this month in Bangkok.

Endemol Shine Boomdog has inked an overall deal with award-winning film and music video director Jessy Terrero.

Raze, which was co-founded by Emiliano Calemzuk, Sofia Vergara and Luis Balaguer, has three new original series heading into production, including an action drama for Netflix that stars Blanca Soto.

Colors TV, Viacom18’s flagship entertainment brand in India, has commissioned second and third installments of Keshet International's talent format Rising Star.

Rive Gauche Television has taken on the international distribution rights for the HLN series Something’s Killing Me.

Smithsonian Channel's critically acclaimed series The Lost Tapes returns next month with a brand-new chapter focusing on civil rights leader Malcolm X.

Lynn Barrie, a former ABC Entertainment Group exec, has been named senior VP of original programming and development at Freeform.

The overarching preoccupation of executives at this week’s NATPE confab in Miami was scale—what it is that companies have to do to stay relevant and revenue-rich in an age of unprecedented disruption, unpredictable regulatory reverses and rivalries that were unimaginable just a few short years ago.

A+E Networks’ Eduardo Ruiz, NBCUniversal’s Klaudia Bermudez-Key and HBO’s Francisco Smith weighed in on the challenges and opportunities in Latin America’s pay-TV sector in a NATPE panel moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati.