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PALISADES PARK: The 58th annual Grammy Awards, which airs live tonight on CBS in the U.S., is set to broadcast in more than 195 international territories, thanks to a raft of sales from Alfred Haber, Inc. (AHI).

BERLIN: The Ink Factory, the most recent project from which is the TV adaptation of John le Carré’s The Night Manager, has hired Becky Sloviter to join its Los Angeles office as senior VP of development and production.

LONDON: FremantleMedia International (FMI) has secured a development and distribution deal with the scripted indie SLAM.

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER: Lionsgate has inked an overall TV deal with writer/producer/comic K.P. Anderson, who will create new original series and formats through his Pygmy Wolf Productions banner.

A new report from IHS finds that integrating Netflix into traditional pay-TV services has had a net positive impact on these operators’ performance. Netflix has partnerships in place with 25 pay-TV providers, according to IHS, with many more likely to follow after its expansion into 130 new territories last month.

NEW YORK: Starz CEO Chris Albrecht talks to World Screen Newsflash about what viewers can expect from the new series The Girlfriend Experience and about how the channel's original-programming strategy has evolved.

LONDON: Lucas Church and David Flynn, both of whom previously held senior roles at Endemol Shine UK, have launched youngest Media, an independent studio delivering television, video and digital products.

NEW YORK: In January, of all the new programs to launch globally, FOX's Grease: Live stirred up the most buzz in social media, according to The WIT.

NEW YORK: Time Warner's Q4 revenues decreased 6 percent to $7.1 billion due to a decline at Warner Bros., partially offset by increases at HBO and Turner.

SYDNEY: ABC TV has announced the departure of two members of its executive team: Carole Sklan, head of fiction, and Deirdre Brennan, head of children’s.