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BRISTOL: The documentary One Million Snake Bites has been commissioned by BBC Two in the U.K. and Animal Planet in the U.S. from Icon Films. The doc follows reptile expert and conservationist Romulus Whitaker as he journeys across India, home to …

NEW YORK: Richard Propper, the founder and president of Solid Entertainment, discusses his business strategy in this video interview, along with talking about WESTDOC, the conference he co-founded for the nonfiction arena.   Through its extensive and diverse catalogue, Solid …

LONDON/AUCKLAND: BBC Worldwide has planned to relaunch the Documentary Channel in New Zealand as BBC Knowledge next year, joining BBC World News and UKTV on the Sky platform. The factual channel has already found success in more than a dozen …

SINGAPORE: The Asia TV Forum opened here in Singapore today with an overall 15-percent increase in attendance, reports Reed Exhibitions, including an 18-percent rise in buyer participation, for a total of 2,600 attendees. Under the theme "Above and Beyond," ATF also reports …

SINGAPORE: Singaporean broadcaster MediaCorp is moving its offices from Caldecott Hill to the country’s digital media hub, Mediapolis. The move to Mediapolis—which is located at the one-north commercial district—is expected to be complete by mid-2015. The broadcaster will be Mediapolis’s anchor tenant, …

CULVER CITY: Sony Pictures Entertainment has extended Amy Pascal’s employment agreement, keeping her as co-chairman of the studio through 2015. Together with Michael Lynton, SPE’s chairman and CEO, Pascal oversees all of the studio’s business lines, including motion pictures (Columbia Pictures, …

BEVERLY HILLS/BURBANK: The signing of a new deal sees hundreds of episodes of programming from ABC, Disney Channel and ABC Family available for streaming on Netflix. The content will be available no earlier than 15 days after the initial telecast. …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: The critically acclaimed AMC and Fox International Channels series The Walking Dead has been licensed by Entertainment One (eOne) into a number of international territories, including the U.K., with Channel 5. In addition, DBS Satellite has acquired the pay-TV …

SINGAPORE: At the Asia TV Forum today, the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) announced that it is reteaming with the U.K.’s South West Screen for the second Multi-Platform Content Across Continents initiative. The two organizations will select a maximum of five projects …

SINGAPORE: Content from E!, Style, G4 and Golf Channel has been sold across a number of distribution platforms in the Asia Pacific, including linear broadcast, on demand, mobile and DVD, by Comcast International Media Group (CIMG). “We’re pleased to make some …