WebTVAsia has inked a deal with Viacom International Media Networks that brings select Chinese-language short-form content from the MTV library to its partner platforms in Mainland China.

CAKE has clinched a deal with Canal+ for Total Dramarama, the newest series in the Total Drama franchise.

BBC Studios has sold the first international format licenses for No Kitchen Required and Astronauts: Toughest Job in the Universe to the Middle East.

Following its screening at MIPCOM, Chasing the Moon, a documentary series from the PBS International catalog, has secured 13 broadcast partners around the globe.

Lionsgate has promoted Agapy Kapouranis to president of international television and digital distribution, succeeding company veteran Peter Iacono, who has decided to leave the studio to become CEO of TravelCadabra.

Love Nature, a joint venture with Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian Networks, is prepping the new series Gangs of Lemur Island with Bristol-based production company True to Nature.

HBO Europe has greenlit its first original Spanish series, Patria, an eight-episode adaptation of Fernando Aramburu’s best-selling novel.

National Geographic Documentary Films has lined up Inside North Korea’s Dynasty, a four-episode documentary series that examines the history of the world’s only communist dynasty.

Nickelodeon International has licensed season two of the animated show Kiva Can Do! from Lacey Entertainment for Nick Jr. in multiple territories.

Babou Ceesay (Damilola, Our Loved Boy, Best of Enemies) and Jill Halfpenny (Three Girls, In the Club) are to lead the cast of the new four-part drama Dark Mon£y for BBC One.