SHERMAN OAKS: GRB Entertainment has sold two of its factual titles, including Secret Guide to Fabulous, into Canada, in addition to licensing a cooking-competition format into Sweden.

TOKYO: Atsushi Hatayama has become the new president of international business development at Nippon Television Network Corporation (Nippon TV).

AMSTERDAM/LONDON: CBS Studios International (CBSSI) has placed the CBS summer event series American Gothic and BrainDead with Amazon Prime Video UK.

LOS ANGELES: After more than three decades with Fox Networks Group (FNG), longtime CFO Del Mayberry is planning to retire, with Ravi Ahuja named as his successor.

ISTANBUL: Global Agency's dating game show The Married Game is getting a local treatment on SBS Belgium.

LOS ANGELES: Chinese entertainment company UYoung Culture & Media Co. has launched a U.S. subsidiary, UYoung Entertainment International (UEI), which is based in Los Angeles.

SANTA MONICA: Hulu has acquired the exclusive subscription streaming rights for the event series Roots from A+E Networks, which also licensed the U.S. SVOD rights for War and Peace and Barbarians Rising to the service.

PARIS: francetv distribution is growing its offering with the addition of five Murder in... films to its catalog.

Kristin Brzoznowski speaks to a range of distributors about the current format trends across Central and Eastern Europe.

The executive VP and COO says he and his team are always looking to serve the market with the best product possible.