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The New York Television Festival (NYTVF) has released schedule highlights for the 12th annual New York Television Festival, which takes place October 24-29. The event is held primarily at (…)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has renewed Greg Robertson for multiyear extension to continue running the Asia Pacific office as managing director and svp, International Television Distribution. Since joining MGM in 2013, Robertson (…)

Poland’s Nowa Tv (TV Spektrum) has recently acquired broadcast rights to Lagardère Studios Distribution’s series Joséphine Ange. The series, produced by DEMD productions, has aired on TF1 since 1997 (…)

TLN Television, Canada’s multilingual media company, kicked off the Cinema Paradiso Film Festival September 6-18. According (…)

Actor and executive producer Kiefer Sutherland will deliver the Media Mastermind Keynote on October 17 at MIPCOM 2016. Sutherland, known for his role in Fox drama series 24 as special agent (…)

Showtime has picked (…)

Localized versions of two of Cartoon Network’s series, We Bare Bears and The Powerpuff Girls, will air on the Philippines’ free-to-air TV channel TV5. Starting on October 15, every Saturday at 8am on (…)

Zodiak Rights, the international distribution arm of Banijay Group, has secured global sales for factual series The Supervet. The series shows life at a veterinary hospital and follows vet Noel (…)

The 2016 International Emmy for News was presented last night to Sky News Migration Crisis (United Kingdom). The Emmy for current affairs was presented to Dispatches–Escape from Isis. (United Kingdom). The International Academy of Television (…)

Independent distributor all3media International has licensed its first scripted drama format commission in the CEE region, as Kiev-based FILM.UA picks up adaptation rights for drama series Step Dave. FILM.UA now (…)