The International Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association (LIMA) held its annual International Licensing Awards last night, held during the 2017 Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. Winners were named across 20 categories. Warner(…)

Turner EMEA greenlit the second season of the Boomerang original children’s series The Happos Family. Season two, which will consist of 25 seven-minute episodes, will premiere on Boomerang channels beginning in(…)

MIP Cancun, the Latin American TV market held this year from November 15-17, is introducing a new co-production matchmaking event. The Co-Production Matchmaking Market will be a three-day program(…)

Blue Ant Media acquired RACAT Group, which includes the purchase of its production houses NHNZ, Beach House Pictures, and Northern Pictures. Also as part of the purchase includes the children’s(…)

U.K.’s Channel 5 commissioned Barcroft Productions to produce three separate projects for the Extraordinary People films. Barcroft will produce these three hour-long films: World’s Heaviest Child, The Solar Boys, and The Butterfly Boys. World’s Heaviest Child follows(…)

Love Nature, the joint venture between Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian Networks, launched its SVOD service on Amazon Channels in the U.K. Love Nature offers a variety of wildlife(…)

Globecast partnered with Intelsat to distribute the international news platform TRT World to the Americas and Asia. As part of the terms for the multi-year deal, Globecast will transmit TRT World(…)

Entertainment One (eOne) signed a licensing partnership with ShowMax, a subscription-based video on demand service, for the Polish streaming rights for six series. The series include the five seasons of Hell(…)

AMC Networks International – U.K. and Multichoice closed a deal to launch SundanceTV in South Africa on DStv. The channel will offer TV premieres, like the original series The Son, as(…)

Tele München Group introduced its own VOD subscription channel service FILMTASTIC for Amazon Prime Video subscribers. FILMTASTIC offers a catalog that includes blockbuster hits and cult classics, such as Point Break, 12(…)