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LONDON: ITV has signed an investment deal with the digital entertainment company Believe Entertainment Group, which is behind such short-form content as The LeBrons for Xbox. ITV becomes a strategic partner for Believe, and will contribute its own U.S. production …

NEW YORK: The digital edition for World Screen's September/Pre-MIPCOM issue is now available, featuring a report that spotlights how the international business of drama is booming amid a new era of creative collaboration across borders. View the digital edition here. …

LONDON: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has officially completed its £450 million ($726 million) acquisition of Channel 5 from Northern & Shell, also announcing its first joint commissions between C5 and its U.K. pay-TV channels. The deal was announced in …

TEL AVIV: Dori Media Group has teamed up with Israeli director Givon Snir to launch a new multichannel network called MeMeMe. The network will be based in Tel Aviv, where Snir and Anat Szekely, currently Dori Media’s head of digital, …

PREMIUM: Julian Fellowes, the creator and writer of Downton Abbey, talks to World Screen about using history to tell stories and the challenges of shooting a period piece. WS: You have written all the episodes on your own. How have …

LONDON: The number of households using OTT is expected to reach 706.53 million in 2020, with the Asia Pacific accounting for 61 percent of the global additions in the period, according to Digital TV Research.  The number of homes watching …

NEW YORK: Scripps Networks International has created a new in-house international program sales and distribution department, which will be led by Hud Woodle. Woodle will serve as VP of international program licensing and distribution. He reports to Simone Nardi, the …

NEW YORK: In August, TF1's The Voice Kids was the show that generated the most buzz in social media, with some 353,000 tweets, according to new data from The WIT. The Voice Kids is a local adaptation of the talent …

NEW YORK: World Screen's Program Price Guides, compiled by veteran media reporter and former distributor Bob Jenkins, are the most comprehensive reports available on what broadcasters are paying for acquisitions across Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America …

LONDON/SYDNEY: ITV is calling for pay-TV platforms to fairly compensate U.K. public service broadcasters for the transmissions of their channels, following the release of a new report it jointly commissioned with Free TV Australia and German commercial broadcasters. The report, …