Kristin Brzoznowski

LONDON: Season one of the U.S. version of Lip Sync Battle has sold into a host of countries, including Norway, Portugal and Israel.

NEW YORK: World Screen’s Anna Carugati interviewed Endemol Shine Group CEO Sophie Turner Laing for the international keynote at NATPE. Watch the video here.

PARK CITY: Sundance Channel Global has acquired five films from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, among them Mammal.

A new survey from Horowitz Research finds that streaming services have been catalysts for increased television viewing and may even drive viewership back to live TV.

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: CJ E&M Movie Channel, which features a library of Korean films, has become available on demand to premium subscribers of DramaFever’s OTT digital video network.

NEW YORK: In the U.S., television delivered strong ad results in the fourth quarter, with total bookings up 9 percent year on year for the period, according to new Standard Media Index (SMI) data.

NEW YORK: World Screen has elevated Joanna Padovano and Joel Marino within its editorial team, along with bolstering its sales and marketing activities with the promotion of Dana Mattison and the hire of Elizabeth Walsh.

LONDON: Sky has invested $10 million in DataXu, which provides programmatic marketing analytics, data management and media activation software.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has filed an objection regarding Relativity Media's Chapter 11 reorganization and has asked a U.S. Bankruptcy Court to allow for the termination of its contract with the company.

BERLIN: Series from Denmark, the U.K., Israel, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. round off the Berlinale Special program at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.