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AMC Networks’ Acorn TV with Acorn Media Enterprises (AME) and the Irish broadcaster RTÉ have commissioned a second season of Finding Joy, a comedy from Treasure Entertainment.

Wheelhouse Group has taken a majority stake in Campfire, the production company behind the Netflix true-crime documentary series adaptation of John Grisham’s The Innocent Man.

The Los Angeles-based Boat Rocker Media company Platform One Media has signed a first-look deal with  the Academy Award-nominated producer Jennifer Fox (The Report, Michael Clayton, Nightcrawler) through her  production company.

Frndly TV is set to launch UPtv on its live and on-demand streaming service in the coming weeks.

In advance of its flagship conference and marketplace, NATPE has elected five new members to its board of directors, including Louise Pedersen, CEO of all3media international.

Viacom reported stronger U.S. ad revenues and gains in its international business in Q4 and fiscal 2019, as well as a return to profitability at Paramount.

Showtime Networks and A24 Films have entered into an exclusive output agreement under which qualifying A24 films theatrically released through November 1, 2022, will air across Showtime, The Movie Channel and Flix, as well as on Showtime multiplex channels and streaming services.

FilmRise has acquired the exclusive distribution rights in North America to the thriller Browse from BoulderLight Pictures, a Los Angeles-based production and sales company.

Disney+ says it recorded more than 10 million sign-ups on its first day of being available in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands.

There will be about 147 million SVOD subscribers in North America by the end of this year, according to GlobalData, which projects that number will rise by a compound annual growth rate of 9 percent through 2023.