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Peter Funt explores, in a Wall Street Journal article, Hollywood’s obsession with the F-word, which is used with casual frequency in many TV series.

Funt is a journalist, actor and producer. He’s also (…)

Filipino streaming platform iWantTFC, currently available in 200 countries, has partnered with Vooks, an international streaming app with over 1.7 million total users globally.

With over 40 publishing partners of best-selling (…)

MGM Alternative has optioned Media Ranch’s format Watch! for the U.S. Part variety show and part memory game, Watch! features two rival teams competing against one another to answer questions based on live onstage (…)

TelevisaUnivision received a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Spanish-Language TV Journalism, for Vico Ortiz — Primer Impacto (Univision), and a Special Recognition for En Sus Palabras, available on ViX.

In Primer (…)

Ruth Berry, managing director, Global Distribution and Global Entertainment, ITV Studios will give a keynote address at MIPTV (running April 17-19) on April 18 in Cannes.

Appointed to the newly created (…)

FOX has given a straight-to-series order to the medical procedural drama Doc, from executive producers Barbie Kligman (Magnum P.I., Secrets and Lies, Private Practice), Hank Steinberg (For Life, Without a Trace) and (…)

Italy’s Rai Kids has unveiled The Chronicles of Nanaria, a 15-episode live action comedy series featuring 11-year-old Arianna, who realizes she has dyslexia. She begins to educate herself about the (…)

Bomanbridge Media and prodco Seventh Art Productions have signed a global distribution deal for the exclusive representation of the Brighton-based producer’s arts programming catalog.

Seventh Art’s latest film, documentary feature Vermeer (…)

The Canadian federal government has approved the C$26 billion merger of telecom companies Rogers and Shaw, with such conditions that, according to Ottawa, consumers will benefit from the deal.

François-Philippe Champagne, (…)

MIPTV will honor acclaimed natural history producers Silverback (Silverback Films and Studio Silverback) with the fourth annual MIP SDG Award at the upcoming MIPTV market (running April 17-19 in Cannes), (…)