Jamila Hunter, ABC’s head of comedy, is exiting the network after seven years to join Kenya Barris’s Khalabo Ink Society as president.

In the third quarter of this year, there were 260 M&A deals in the U.S. media and telecoms space, according to PwC, a 9-percent gain on the year-ago period.

Jan Frouman, chairman and CEO of Red Arrow Studios and a member of ProSiebenSat.1 Media’s executive board, has decided to leave both posts when his current management contract concludes at the end of February 2019, with James Baker now appointed as president and COO of Red Arrow Studios.

The streaming platform Kanopy has secured a licensing agreement with HBO Documentary Films that includes 43 docs to add to its service in the U.S. and Canada.

The group CEO of Viacom18 talks about what’s driving his business at home and abroad.

Marci Proietto has been elevated to executive VP of animation at 20th Century Fox Television.

Laurence Fishburne (black-ish, The Matrix) is to star in the anthology drama series Rendlesham for Eleventh Hour Films (EHF) and Sony Pictures Television (SPT).

Heather Moosnick is set to join Hulu as senior VP of content partnerships and will drive the streaming platform's content acquisition strategy across its live and on-demand programming.

As part of a rebranding, Network Ten will now be known as Network 10 across all assets, and a direct-to-consumer streaming and subscription VOD service, 10 All Access, is set to launch in December.

Studio 100 Media has kicked off production on the feature film Maya the Bee 3: The Golden Orb, which is being made in collaboration with Studio B Animation and Flying Bark Productions.