NATPE Announces Tartikoff Legacy Award Honorees
Steve Harvey, Doug Herzog, Quincy Jones, Sophie Turner Laing and Norman Lear will receive NATPE’s 13th annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award. The ceremony will take place during the market, on (…)
Hit Ratings for Record TV’s “Moses and the Ten Commandments”
Last week, Brazil-based Record TV’s Moses and the Ten Commandments repeated its best average with 24 points in Rio de Janeiro. The biblical telenovela maintained its lead at top (…)
Francetv Distribution Brings “Peanuts” to American Audiences
Francetv distribution, the commercial arm of France Télévisions, has finalized a deal for its Peanuts shorts with Turner Broadcasting’s Boomerang in the U.S. The shorts will air on Boomerang (…)
New Deals for GRB
GRB Entertainment has announced deals of multiple scripted, docu-series and documentary titles in several regions. Brazil’s Globosat secured the documentary Remembering Whitney, produced for Lifetime USA. The Caribbean’s International (…)
Herb Lazarus: When Doing Business While Having Fun Was a Priority
Herbert “Herb” Lazarus has become the reason and example for why many TV executives no longer (voluntarily) retire. At 80 years old, with 60 years in the business, Lazarus is (…)
Finalists Announced for Whistler Film Festival’s Power Pitch
Six Canadian producers have been selected to participate in Whistler Film Festival + Summit‘s Power Pitch, which offers an opportunity for Canadian producers to sharpen their pitching skills (…)
Japan Content Showcase Wraps Up
The Japan Content Showcase, which took place October 20-22 at Tokyo’s Grand Pacific Le Daiba, featured nearly 350 exhibitors from 24 countries and regions and almost 1,500 (…)
BBC Earth and Shanghai Media Group Collaborate
BBC Earth Films and SMG Pictures will team up to co-produce feature film Earth: One Amazing Day (working title). The movie is the first feature film to (…)
CRTC Approves Three Telelatino Channels
Canada’s CRTC approved Telelatino Network applications for three newly available regional Spanish language TV channels, operated by U.S.-based Hemisphere Media Group. The channels Telvisión Dominicana, Centroamerica TV (…)