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Today at MIP CANCUN, Elizabeth Bowen-Tombari, editor of TV Latina, moderated the session Micro Drama, Mega Audience, featuring FlareFlow’s Shawn Wu, Inter Medya’s Can Okan and The Mediapro Studio US & Canada’s Juan “JC” Acosta, who discussed the rise of micro-dramas and their impact on global content.

Lionsgate Worldwide Television Distribution Group has teamed up with Debmar-Mercury for MovieSphere Gold, the first contemporary all-movie digital network.

The Canadian companies Sphere Media and Zone 3 have merged to combine their expertise in the production of French- and English-language content for local and international markets.

VIDAA is launching an upgraded direct-to-consumer wedotv AVOD app, as well as the wedotv: Legacy FAST channel and the new auto-sports FAST channel wedotv: AUTA.

Amplify Pictures has ordered a full season of The Earliest Show, written, directed and created by Ben Schwartz, who will star alongside Lauren Lapkus.

Group revenues at RTL Group were stable in the third quarter at €1.34 billion, despite ad revenues dropping 2.8 percent and Fremantle revenues slipping 4.5 percent.

Sky and streaming service NOW have unveiled a new lineup of comedy specials featuring some of the U.K.’s most popular comedians.

Canela Media has launched five new Canela.TV FAST channels covering sports, telenovelas, Mexican cinema and more on Amazon’s Fire TV.

India’s Sony LIV has partnered with YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels to offer viewers the ability to subscribe to Sony LIV in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany and Australia.

FOX Entertainment Global has tapped Sabrina Hall Aguirre, formerly manager of international sales at PBS Distribution, as its new director of content sales for Latin America.