Articles

Rich Magallanes, the senior VP of development and production at Saban Brands, talks to World Screen Newsflash about what’s on the development slate and in the production pipeline, and where he’s scouting new IP from.

CBS Studios International has licensed the first-window U.K. broadcast rights for SEAL Team and Instinct to Sky.

Studio 100 Media has taken over Little Airplane Productions (Wonder Pets, Small Potatoes, Super Wings), a New York-based Emmy-winning animation studio founded by Josh Selig in 1999.

CBS has given a straight-to-series order for Blood & Treasure, a serialized action-adventure drama for broadcast in summer 2019, while CBS All Access has lined up the original psychological thriller Tell Me a Story.

Channel One in Russia launched Russian Ninja, a local version of the Ninja Warrior format.

At this year's Asia TV Forum, the winners were unveiled for the inaugural ATF Animation Pitch, as well as the second ATF Formats Pitch.

The Diffusion Group (TDG) is predicting that the penetration of live multichannel pay-TV services will decline from 85 percent of U.S. households in 2017 to 79 percent in 2030, as virtual MVPDs disrupt the marketplace.

Hemisphere Media Group has named Javier Maynulet to succeed Jose Ramos as president and general manager of WAPA-TV upon his planned retirement in the first half of 2018.

Armoza Formats has inked a deal with Palomar for an Italian adaptation of the docu-reality show Back to Life.

Brad Lyons is planning to exit his role as Seven Network’s director of production, after having been with the company for 20 years.