While YouTube still dominates online viewing in India, premium VOD usage—across SVOD and freemium services—is on the rise, logging a 12 percent share of watch time, with 6.1 trillion minutes streamed from January 2022 to March 2023, according to Media Partners Asia.

Banijay Rights has signed a deal for an all-new adaptation of the adventure reality format Survivor in Argentina.

Hulu has renewed The Kardashians for 20 additional episodes.

Onyx Collective and Channel 4 have given a straight-to-series pickup for the drama Queenie, based on the best-selling novel by Candice Carty-Williams.

Sky Kids has slated two new series, Look, See, Wow! and Pip and Posy Let’s Learn, to debut this year.

Sesame Workshop has upped Valerie Mitchell Johnston to executive VP of legal and business affairs and general counsel, and the board has voted to name her board secretary, both effective July 1.

The TV Kids Summer Festival, which you can register for here free of charge, will feature a panel discussion on the latest developments in French animation with Superprod’s Clément Calvet, Mediawan’s Julien Borde, Dandelooo’s Emmanuèle Pétry-Sirvin and HARI’s Sophie “Kido” Prigent.

FOX Entertainment Global has a slate of new and catalog content from across the FOX linear and streaming portfolio.

The Swarm, an adaptation of Frank Schätzing’s bestseller on offer from ZDF Studios, follows scientists as they race to discover what is causing strange behavior in marine life.

The director talks about the challenges of capturing footage of wild animals, the responsibility of informing the public about climate change and the hope that with much work, there is still time to make improvements.