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PARIS: Cris Abrego, co-chairman of Endemol Shine Americas and co-CEO of Endemol Shine North America, has been lined up to deliver a keynote at MIPCancun, on Friday, November 18.

SYDNEY: Michael Brooks has been named managing director of Warner Bros. International Television Production in Australia.

GENEVA: British actor and comedian John Cleese will be honored with the Rose d’Or Award for lifetime achievement at the 55th annual ceremony, to be held in Berlin on September 13.

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne) has hired Carolyn Newman for the newly created role of VP of scripted programming at eOne Television.

New data from Juniper Research predicts that 4K internet TV and video content will be viewed by 1 in 10 U.S. residents by 2021, up from 1 in 500 this year.

NEW YORK: Actor Alan Cumming, whose work spans across theater, film and television, is lined up to host the International Emmy Awards Gala, which will take place November 21 in New York.

LONDON: ESPN Player has launched ESPN Select, a new channel that will provide a range of sports content live and on-demand to subscribers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

LOS ANGELES: STX Entertainment has received investments from PCCW and Tencent Holdings, which both now hold equity stakes in the company.

Kelly Day, AwesomenessTV's chief digital officer, shares some of the company’s strategies for global growth.

NEW YORK: Of all the new programs to launch globally in July, GMA Network's Encantadia stirred up the most buzz in social media, according to The WIT.