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Children’s entertainment company The Fred Rogers Company has named Paul Siefken President and CEO, effective January 1, 2017. Currently vice president of Broadcast & Digital Media, Siefken succeeds longtime (…)

Brand management company Genius Brands International has licensed the content distribution, licensing and merchandising rights to SpacePOP in Southern Europe, including Spain, Portugal and Italy, for a launch in (…)

The Toronto Film Critics Association has awarded Best Picture to Moonlight, by American director Barry Jenkins, a coming-of-age story about a gay Black man coming to terms with his sexuality. The film (…)

Beauty World Search, which organizes competitive reality series The Fashion Hero, has signed an agency representation agreement with Jan Salling’s Missing Link Media. The agreement will see Salling consulting (…)

Televisa, Pol-ka Producciones and Federation Kids & Family have sold teen series Love, Divina to Italy’s Super! The deal sees the music-themed daily series kick off its international broadcast and licensing strategy. Love, Divina is (…)

Amsterdam’s Beta Film has taken a minority stake in independent formats sales business Lineup Industries. Distribution executives Ed Louwerse and Julian Curtis founded Lineup in 2014.  Lineup will continue to operate (…)

The eighth edition of Paris’ Series Mania has opened the call for submissions. The festival is seeking TV and web series, in addition to other project submissions until February 17, 2017. (…)

TABI Channel, the travel and lifestyle brand operated in Japan by Turner Asia Pacific, has won the Grand Award at the 4K Tokushima Movie Festival for its original production Biei, Hokkaido: (…)