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Following NATPE Miami 2017 earlier in January, JP Bommel has been named the new president and CEO of NATPE. Prior to his appointment, Bommel served as managing director and COO (…)

Germany’s Studio 100 Media has entered a distribution deal with China’s WeKids Asia to offer some of its titles to the Chinese market. The Chinese animation provider has obtained the rights (…)

Singapore-based Bomanbridge Media has unveiled its program sales to South Korean companies KBS, JEI TV, and EBS. KBS acquired the documentary Atlantic: Fire in the Ocean about a chain of underwater volcanic mountains. (…)

Brazilian broadcaster SBT has commissioned the first season of Armoza Format’s reality competition series Curvy Supermodel. In addition, the series’ second season has been licensed by RTLII in Germany. Curvy Supermodel is a nationwide (…)

GRB Entertainment has closed docu-series sales to France’s RMC Decouverte, Israel’s Ananey Communications, and MNET Africa. RMC Decouverte acquired Auction Kings, a show about auctioneer Paul Brown and his Atlanta staff (…)

Last night at the Oscars, Moonlight (A24) won Best Picture, in a wild turn of events, after La La Land (Lionsgate) was incorrectly announced as the winner. Among the night’s winners included: Casey Affleck for (…)

By funding through Flow and Caribbean Tales Media Group, three TV series pilots will begin production. The three projects include: Battledream Chronicle, a sci-fi drama animated series created by Alain Bidard; Heat, (…)

INSIGHT TV has commissioned the racecar series King of the Hammers. Produced in collaboration with LSP, King of the Hammers is about rock crawling, a form of off-road driving. The series, filmed at (…)

Fox Inclusion has revealed the participants for Fox Writers Lab, the company’s writers’ platform, which aims to cultivate experienced writers and create a channel for prospective hires for its television, (…)