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Ovation has picked up a slew of new titles from distributors at NATPE, including a deal with Sky Studios for the second season of Riviera and one with TVF International for Glamping Adventures.

Cheryl Idell has been named executive VP and chief research officer of WarnerMedia Entertainment and direct-to-consumer.

GRB Studios has acquired the finished and format rights to Family Pictures, a series originally made by Chimpanzee Productions for PBS.

London-based Raw, an All3Media company, has upped Oliver Calleja to the new role of senior VP of U.S. development.

Hulu has ordered a straight-to-series comedy from Steve Martin and Martin Short and has renewed its original series Wu-Tang: An American Saga and Dollface, the company revealed at its TCA presentation.

Another Christmas Coincidence, which aired in the U.S. on Hallmark Channel, is one of MarVista Entertainment’s new holiday titles.

AMC has renewed the Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul for a sixth and final season, to air in 2021, along with revealing a number of current projects in development.

NBCUniversal has outlined new details regarding its Peacock streaming service, which will launch nationwide on July 15, with an early offer for Comcast customers.

TNT has set a premiere date for Snowpiercer, the series based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel series and the film from Golden Globe Award winner Bong Joon Ho (Parasite).

On the Lionsgate slate at NATPE, the second season of the anthology drama series Manhunt: Deadly Games chronicles one of the largest manhunts on U.S. soil: the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph, played by Jack Huston.