Kristin Brzoznowski

Samsung Electronics is bringing back some of its best-performing Christmas channels on Samsung TV Plus.

The ninth edition of MIA—International Audiovisual Market has come to a close, having welcomed over 2,600 participants from 66 countries.

Samsung Electronics is rolling out a slate of new Samsung TV Plus channels in Europe via partnerships with ZDF Studios and Viasat World, among others.

Today at the MIA market, Chiara Sbarigia, president of the Italian Audiovisual Producers Association (APA), presented the latest report on Italian audiovisual production, which finds the total value of investments in original Italian productions at €1.8 billion.

Lightning International is to distribute the new chat show The Dinosaur Hour, which marks the writer and comedian John Cleese's return to screens.

Howard Braunstein, Alexandre Coscas, Michael R. Goldstein and Ben C. Silverman have teamed up to launch Leading Distribution Partners (LDP), which will license original and third-party content.

Takeshi Shibasaki, NHK's head of co-production, and Afumi Watanabe, senior manager in the content development department at NHK Enterprises, talk about factual co-productions and a strong drama offering.

MISTCO has renewed its exclusive sales-agent deal with TRT for another three years.

Ryan Sharkey, who most recently served as senior VP of content acquisitions for NBCUniversal, has been named senior VP of programming and content strategy at The CW Network.

Gachi Ciurluini, VP of content strategy at Canela Media, has joined TV Latina’s Festival FAST, to be held on November 7 and 8. You can register for the free event here.