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The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences appointed Andre Sampaio as a new ambassador to Portugal. Sampaio serves as marketing and media director at Sonae. Sampaio joins a group of (…)

Sony Pictures Television Networks announced the global premiere dates on which its new thriller, Absentia, will debut on SPTN’s AXN channels. The series premieres today in Spain, Portugal, and Romania. The (…)

Boat Rocker Media acquired the principal assets of Toronto’s Proper Television and Proper Rights. Proper will continue to run as an independent business within the Boat Rocker Media umbrella. The (…)

All3Media International signed a licensing deal with Hulu for the U.S. streaming VoD rights to GameFace. Produced by Objective Fiction, the six-part series will be available on Hulu this fall. The (…)

The Diplomatic Council is presenting the current Global Media Board, a committee that convenes to decide on the Global Media Innovator 2018, which will be warded during the 2018 DC Gala. (…)

Banijay Rights sold the bi-lingual drama Bang to Sweden’s SVT. The eight-part crime series premiered on S4C earlier in September. Created in both Welsh and English, the series tells the sibling story (…)

U.K.-based production and distribution company Silverlining brought on Rachel Job for the newly created role of director of Acquisitions. Prior to joining Silverlining, Job served 10 years at A+E Networks UK, (…)

The New York Television Festival announced the special events line-up for the 13th annual festival, which runs from October 23-28, 2017. In addition to the 52 official selections in the Independent (…)

NBCUniversal International Formats secured Wedlocked for local adaptations in Germany and Serbia. Each episode of Wedlocked focuses on two families who come together for their children’s wedding. The families plan everything that needs to (…)

Deutsche Telekom commissioned its first original series, Germanized, for EntertainTV. Coproduced with Bavaria Fernsehproduktion and Telfrance, the ten-part comedy series set in a French town where a Germany company and its (…)