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Lionsgate Television Group has upped Lee Hollin to head of current programming and hired three more executives to round out his team.

Lionsgate has promoted Scott Herbst to head of scripted development for its television group and Jocelyn Sabo to senior VP of television.

The Rook, Lionsgate’s first premium series for Starz, tells the story of Myfanwy Thomas, a woman who wakes up in London with no memory of who she is, how she got there or why there is a circle of dead bodies around her.

BBC Studios in Los Angles and Lionsgate have tapped media executive Dan McDermott to head up the companies’ television partnership.

Ann Curry anchors and executive produces M.D. Live, a factual series that Lionsgate is bringing to Miami that uses crowdsourcing to find solutions to various ailments.

Lionsgate has promoted Agapy Kapouranis to president of international television and digital distribution, succeeding company veteran Peter Iacono, who has decided to leave the studio to become CEO of TravelCadabra.

Lionsgate has secured an overall television deal with Oscar and Emmy winner Common and his Freedom Road Productions to develop and produce new TV series.

Lionsgate has inked an overall TV deal with writer-producer Jenny Bicks, whose credits include Sex and the City and The Big C, to develop and produce original series.

Lionsgate and Universal Music Group (UMG) have signed a multiyear first-look deal, under which the companies will develop original scripted and unscripted TV projects drawn from UMG's portfolio of labels, artists and music.

Lionsgate is showcasing the new Starz original dramas Vida and Sweetbitter, as well as the action competition series Carnage, at NATPE Budapest International.