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Gepke Nederlof, managing director of Be-Entertainment, discusses bringing formats from Belgium out to the global market and what the company has on offer.

BBC Studios has elevated Chris Kinsman and Rebecca Ransley to the newly created roles of senior VP for factual and senior VP for scripted, respectively, within the content sales markets for EMEA.

Mondo TV Group has signed a licensing agreement with China's Youku for the animated series Grisù.

TV Latina’s Festival FAST, to be held November 7 to 8, will include a panel on opportunities for distributors in the FAST space, featuring CDC United Network’s Jimmy van der Heyden and SOMOS Distribution’s Francisco Villanueva. Registration for this free event is available here.

Zara Hayes (The Killing Kind, Showtrial) has joined Eleventh Hour Films as an in-house writer and executive producer.

Jenna Boyd has been named senior VP of development at Disney Branded Television, overseeing the scripted series development team and creatively supervising the production of scripted series pilots for Disney+ and Disney Channel.

BBC Select, the BBC’s premium ad-free documentary streaming service, has launched a curated natural history collection featuring over 100 hours of programming.

Konami Cross Media NY has signed three new apparel and accessories licensees for the Yu-Gi-Oh! consumer products program.

CAKE recently took on the non-dialogue animated comedy Cracké Family Scramble from Squeeze Productions and is spotlighting the program in the TV Kids Screenings Festival.

Dan March, managing partner of Dynamic Television, highlighted how the role of the independent producer-distributor is evolving in the scripted business as the TV Drama Festival continued.