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Wattpad Brand Originals is a new branded entertainment offering created to develop branded TV series, films, podcasts and digital media projects from hit Wattpad stories.

Speaking at AT&T’s Analyst and Investor Day, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar highlighted HBO Max’s gains, its international growth potential, the success of the day-and-date release strategy for new feature films and the importance of the studio’s franchises.

AT&T has revised its subscriber targets for HBO Max, with an AVOD launch in the U.S. set for June and expansion across Latin America and Europe this year.

World Screen Newsflash hears from showrunners with significantly different backgrounds and creative sensibilities about shows they created for FX: Joe Weissberg and Joel Fields with The Americans and Carlton Cuse with The Strain.

Games Workshop Group is placing a renewed focus on its content strategy, tapping former Turner Broadcasting and Hasbro Studios executive Finn Arnesen as its first head of entertainment development.

Cathy Payne, the CEO of Banijay Rights, and Matt Creasey, the EVP of sales, co-productions and acquisitions outside EMEA, talk to World Screen Newsflash about working with producers and clients whose needs continue to change.

The March Digital Editions of World Screen, TV Kids and TV Listings are now available, providing a host of interactive features such as embedded videos, links to our WorldScreenings.com video portal and more in an elegant, user-friendly design targeted to on-the-go reading.

Amagi has unveiled Amagi Planner, a content planning and scheduling automation software that eliminates most of the manual efforts in linear TV scheduling.

Disney+ has now topped the 100-million paid subscriber mark, Bob Chapek revealed at a virtual annual shareholders meeting.

Crunchyroll has wrapped the first quarter of the year with a full slate of licensing deals for a variety of anime series, including for Jujutsu Kaisen, Bananya and The God of High School.