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FAME Week Africa, to be held in Cape Town on September 3-10, will showcase the top ten LGBTQ+ entertainers on the African continent: choreographer Somizi Mhlongo, musician Toya Delazy, singer/actor (…)

Superights has snatched global distribution rights for animated series Tara Duncan, targeting children aged 6-9.

The 52 x 13’ series is based on the eponymous 15-volume book saga by Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian, who (…)

Genius Brands will be changing its name to Kartoon Studios and will transfer its listing from the Nasdaq capital market to the NYSE American exchange.

Kartoon Studios is expected to commence trading (…)

Paramount Australia has announced the cast of NCIS: Sydney, which is currently filming against the backdrop of the Australian harbor city.

Exclusive in Australia to Paramount+ and Network 10, this first-ever international series (…)

GoQuest Media has struck a deal with Lithuanian production company Dansu Films for the worldwide distribution rights (excluding Lithuania and Estonia) of drama series Troll Farm.

Troll Farm, a dramedy about a (…)

A+E Networks has announced that Alone: Australia is now the most watched SBS-commissioned series in the network’s history, averaging over 1 million viewers per episode on linear TV and On Demand.

Produced (…)

The BBC has commissioned new three-part series Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour (w/t) for BBC2 and BBC iPlayer.

In the 3 x 60’ factual series TV personalities Rob Rinder and Rylan Clarke follow (…)

MIA International Audiovisual Market has slated a Green Film Lab workshop (the third of this year) on the tail end of the market’s ninth edition, running October 9-15, 2023, in Rome. The (…)

FilmRise has acquired North American rights in all media to all twelve episodes of the first season of Truthseekers from Big Media.

The historical docuseries looks at some of the most (…)

By Dom Serafini

The first time I met Silvio Berlusconi was at his Canale 5 MIPTV stand in Cannes in 1979. I was working for Saul Paul’s TV/Radio Age and Berlusconi (…)