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Amazon’s Prime Video and IMDb TV streaming services have clinched a deal for a slate of classic series from producer Norman Lear.

AfterShock Media’s Rive Gauche has appointed David Sigurani as executive VP of film and TV and Max Zupanovic as director of development for domestic film and TV.

Netflix and Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG) has signed a new multiyear, exclusive licensing deal in the U.S. for animated feature films.

Electric Entertainment has launched The Official Leverage: Redemption Aftershow: A Very Distinctive Podcast exclusively on the ElectricNOW app and channel.

Brand Licensing Europe (BLE), which is set to return in-person to ExCeL London in November, has revealed the companies that are already confirmed to participate in the event.

The nominations for the 73rd Emmy Awards have been revealed, with The Crown and The Mandalorian tied for the top spot for program nominations with 24.

Series Mania has unveiled the new annual Series Mania Étoile Award, which will be presented this year to Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Audra McDonald.

Incendo and The Steve Jaggi Company have commenced production on Love and Penguins, Incendo’s eighth film of the 2021 slate and first Canadian-Australian Treaty co-production. 

The global entertainment and media (E&M) business is rebounding from a Covid-19 pandemic slump, according to PwC, with revenues on track to rise by 6.5 percent this year and 6.7 percent next year.

Skydance and Concord have signed a deal with Jennifer Lopez and her Nuyorican Productions to develop a slate of original projects based on Concord’s catalog of musicals, including the works of Broadway icons Rodgers & Hammerstein.