The 4th Zurich Summit will feature a keynote panel discussion, titled “The Producers’ Words of Wisdom,” with distinguished producers John Lesher, Christine Vachon, and Greg Shapiro, moderated by Christos Michaels. The(…)

Netflix will debut a new original series titled The Eddy, which comes from IMG. Academy Award-winning director Damien Chazelle is attached as executive producer and he will direct two of the(…)

American Public Television (APT) is launching a new reality TV series, Make48, this September. Make48 documents 17 teams who compete against one another to develop a commercial product within a 48-hour period. After(…)

Mondo TV sold two animated series to Discovery Channel for its Middle East children’s broadcaster, DKids. Invention Story follows a resourceful fox who builds new inventions and competes against Carrot Town’s jealous(…)

French Cinema Now, the French language film festival organized by the Seattle International Film Festival, will feature eight films from TV5Monde, celebrating a six-year partnership with the French entertainment network.(…)

Michael Thorn was appointed as president of Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX). At the end of the month FOX’s current president of Entertainment, David Madden, will step down.(…)

Tomorrow Jane Fonda and Robert Redford will receive Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, which began yesterday and runs until September 9, 2017.  Afterward, the(…)

London-based TCB Media Rights signed a deal with Sydney-based Essential Media and Entertainment for 55 hours of new and existing factual entertainment content. TCB acquired the food documentary series Gourmet Farmer and the(…)

Banijay Rights signed a number of deals with broadcasters in the U.S., Europe, CEE, and South Africa, for the one-hour special Diana’s Death: The Search for the Truth. Produced by Tony(…)

Cisneros Media Distribution will launch its Venevision network on DirecTV beginning September 15, 2017. The network features a variety of content made out of Cisneros Media studios, including the live(…)