NEWS BRIEF: Apple TV+ has acquired the second season of French-Japanese drama series Drops of God from Legendary Entertainment. Produced by Les Productions Dynamic, 22H22 and Adline Entertainment, Drop
The embattled UK TV industry has been hit by more bad news after commercial public broadcaster ITV revealed plans to cut 200 jobs. ITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall told staff in an email yesterd
NEWS BRIEF: London- and New York-based DLT Entertainment has launched a 1980s-themed comedy FAST channel on the Plex platform with debuts on Free Movies Plus and Anoki coming in the second quarter of 2024.
French pubcaster France Télévisions and German kids’ net Super RTL have pre-bought Xilam Animation’s adventure comedy series Submarine Jim. France-based Xilam will now begin production on the 52
A+E Media Group has appointed Kylie Munnich as VP of content sales, overseeing the UK and Ireland. Reporting to MD of A+E International Patrick Vien, Munnich will be responsible for sales of A+E Networ
5X Media, the LA-, South Africa- and Madrid-based studio has linked with actor and social media influencer Rami Zeinn and Monkey Man star, actor-writer-director Makarand Deshpande. Zeinn has amassed mo
Global production and distribution group Fremantle has hired an LA-based senior VP of global ad sales and strategy to oversee the growth of advertising revenues at its burgeoning FAST, AVoD and social content business.
NEWS BRIEF: Warner Bros Discovery US cablenet HGTV has renewed Ugliest House in America for a six-episode sixth season and commissioned a four-episode spin-off series called Scariest House in America.
Hallmark Media in the US has restructured its programming division as it seeks to increase its investment in genres such as romcom, mystery movies and series. Samantha DiPippo, senior VP of programming
UK TV workers are abandoning the industry in droves due to a mental health crisis caused by poverty, harassment, bullying and being forced to work long hours, a parliamentary select committee has heard.
Mediaset España is set to adapt cooking talent format Next Level Chef, a distributed by Fox Entertainment Global, in Spain for the first time. The local version will be produced by Shine Iberia, part
Following her appointment as MD at Banijay’s Endemol Shine Poland last year, Małgorzata Perkowska-Czaja is pursuing a multi-pronged strategy involving pitching Banijay formats into the local market, providing a hub for other CEE regions and examining t