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PREMIUM: Steven Silver, co-founder and CEO of Kew Media Group, talks to World Screen Newsflash about the importance of scale and the prospects for future acquisitions. 

Nancy Dubuc, who has stepped down from her role as A+E Networks' president and CEO, has been tapped as the new CEO of VICE Media, as founder Shane Smith transitions to executive chairman. 

Netflix has given a ten-episode order to Norm Macdonald Has a Show, produced by the comedian's Anchor Spud Productions, along with Pygmy Wolf Productions in association with Lionsgate Television.

Of all the new programs that launched globally in February, Star TV's Börü generated the most buzz on Twitter and Facebook, according to The WIT.

PREMIUM: Michael MacMillan, co-founder and CEO of Blue Ant Media, talks to World Screen Newsflash about the vision in building the company, which has investments in production outfits across the globe specializing in premium factual content and channel brands distributed on various platforms.

PREMIUM: Jan Frouman, chairman and CEO of Red Arrow Studios, discusses with World Screen Newsflash the integration of the Red Arrow Entertainment Group and Studio71.

NATPE Budapest has been renamed NATPE Budapest International in a move that reflects the market and conference’s extended global focus beyond the CEE and EMEA regions.

Marking a first for GRB Entertainment, the company has entered into a partnership with DEFY Media to develop and distribute an original programming slate domestically and internationally.

Amazon Studios has given the go-ahead to its first half-hour animated series, Undone, which comes from Michael Eisner's Tornante Company and co-creators Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy (BoJack Horseman).

LIMA has named Sesame Workshop veteran Maura Regan as president, effective July 1, after Charles Riotto retires from the post.