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Amazon is planning to phase out its free, ad-supported streaming service Freevee, with its original series remaining on Prime Video.

BBC Studios has entered into a partnership deal with Jolly Octopus Media, a new production company founded by Emmy and BAFTA winners Ollie Brack and James Longman.

Apple TV+ has lined up the new docuseries The Secret Lives of Animals, narrated by Hugh Bonneville (Paddington, Downton Abbey).

Producer Nickie Sault has launched Class 5, a film and television production company based in Sheffield.

Channel 4 has come on board the new crime thriller In Flight, produced by Buccaneer Media (Marcella, Crime, The Burning Girls).

Marion Edwards, Jodie Morris and Chris Rose have partnered to launch Creative Sprouts, a consultancy collective offering creative workshops to support kids' content creators.

Renowned rock climbers Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell speak to World Screen Newsflash about the arduous undertaking of traversing all five peaks of the Devils Thumb massif and the crew that captured it all along the way for The Devil’s Climb.

TV Latina’s Festival FAST wrapped up its first day with a presentation by Juan Villegas, a television, online video and advertising analyst at Omdia, providing an overview of the FAST segment within the U.S. Hispanic market and discussing future growth opportunities.

Mar Martínez Raposo, director of Atresmedia Internacional, participated in TV Latina’s Festival FAST, where she showcased the company’s offerings, including Zona Investigación, Cine y Series and Única, along with the content each channel provides.

TV Latina’s Festival FAST continued today with a discussion featuring Patricia Jasin, country manager for Colombia and senior VP of international distribution at Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America/U.S. Hispanic, speaking on the emergence and expansion of FAST channels in both Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market, highlighting the new challenges they present for the distribution business.