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PALISADES PARK: Alfred Haber Television, Inc. (AHTI) has lined up a raft of new broadcasters for the Hallmark Channel original movie Let it Snow, including Sky in the U.K. and TF1 in France. Also on board to air the TV …

ISTANBUL: Home to a content export business worth more than $200 million annually, Turkey will take center stage at MIPCOM this October, with a slate of highlights that includes a screening of the follow-up to the megahit Magnificent Century. The …

LONDON: Vodafone has confirmed that it is in the early stages of discussions with Liberty Global regarding a possible exchange of selected assets between the two companies. "There is no certainty that any transaction will be agreed, nor is there …

LOS ANGELES: PROMINENT Brand + Talent, a new global brand management consortium based in Los Angeles and with offices opening in New York, Minneapolis, London, Milan and Hong Kong, has officially launched. PROMINENT Brand + Talent will be led by …

NEW YORK: According to PwC's annual Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2015-2019, the so-called "divide" between digital and traditional media has become irrelevant in the minds and spending habits of consumers, as global E&M spending is set to reach $771 …

NEW YORK: Showtime has officially unveiled its stand-alone internet streaming service, which will debut in early July, with Apple as its first partner. Subscribers will have unlimited on demand access to every season of award-winning Showtime original series, and hundreds …

TORONTO: The two-hour original movie Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables from Breakthrough Entertainment is slated to debut on Corus Entertainment’s YTV in early 2016. Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, based on the classic Anne series of …

LOS GATOS: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings took to Facebook to shoot down speculation that the streaming service may begin running third-party advertising during its programs. Last week, a small set of users began to see pre- and post-roll ads on …

NEW YORK: SPI International has revealed that four channels from the FilmBox brand are slated to launch on Sprint in Bulgaria, while eight are headed to OVY Network in Botswana. Sprint subscribers in Bulgaria will soon have access to FilmBox …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2015 issue of World Screen. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU), created by Dick Wolf, is part of one of the most successful franchises in the history of television. Now in its …