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GRB Studios and Media Ranch are aligning for a distribution joint venture that will house more than 5,000 hours of factual, unscripted and scripted programming, as well as a slate of formats in all genres.

At the Australian Children’s Content Summit, Screen Producers Australia (SPA) CEO Matthew Deaner expressed concerns about the lack of Australian children’s content on the country’s commercial free-to-air channels and urged the government to conduct an immediate review of the Australian Content and Children’s Television Standards (ACCTS).

The second season of the Australian drama The Newsreader is set to air on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer this fall.

Kate Beal, chair of the recently launched Association of True Crime Producers (ATCP), discusses the group’s mission to establish and enforce best practice guidelines for the true-crime genre.

The latest episode from the World Screen podcast is now available: Samsung TV Plus’s Decision-Makers.

Mark Thompson, former director-general of the BBC and president and CEO of The New York Times Company, has been appointed chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide.

Sarah Hammond, chief creative officer at Two Brothers Pictures, is set for a creative keynote at the TV Drama Festival, taking place October 3 to 5. You can register here for free.

APTN has slated the third season premiere of Friday Night Thunder, following racing families at Ohsweken Speedway, the only dirt track on Indigenous land in Canada, for September 8.

Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Anubha Momin have teamed up to form Above the Palace, a new Toronto-based production company.

All3Media International has closed a raft of deals for the Paramount+ U.K. original drama The Ex-Wife in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.