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Consumers are spending less time on live broadcasts on their television sets, according to Parks Associates, but live viewing on internet-connected devices is on the rise.

Blumhouse Television will produce eight thematically connected feature films for Amazon Prime Video, to be directed by "diverse and underrepresented filmmakers." 

World Screen Newsflash’s Anna Carugati met with Over Water stars Tom Dewispelaere and Natali Broods, as well as writers Tom Lenaerts and Paul Baeten Gronda and executive producer Kato Maes, to discuss the themes in the series and how it all came together.

Cardi B, Chance the Rapper and T.I. are on board Rhythm + Flow, Netflix’s first music competition show, which searches for the next breakout hip-hop star.

Activate's newly released Tech & Media Outlook 2019 explores cord-cutting and SVOD subscriber projections for the next few years and estimates that global media and internet revenues will hit $2.2 trillion in 2022, up from $1.8 trillion this year.

For the 17th year in a row, World Screen has produced the International Emmy publication for the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. View the digital edition here.

AMC Networks International (AMCNI) has put in place new leadership within its senior management team for its key regions, including Ricardo Debén being named executive VP and managing director for AMCNI Latin America.

MIP Cancun has lined up the session Mexico and Spain: Creativity and Production Efficacy Explored, with Raúl Berdonés, the president at Grupo Secuoya, and Epigmenio Ibarra, the CEO at Argos Comunicación, moderated by TV Latina's Elizabeth Bowen-Tombari.

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has appointed Nina Lederman to the newly created position of executive VP of global scripted development and programming.

Stan Lee, chairman emeritus of Marvel who co-created such iconic characters as Spider-Man, passed away yesterday at the age of 95.