Banijay Group has hired drama executive Takis Candilis as head of Scripted of Banijay Group. In this newly created role, Candilis will be directly in charge of Banijay’s scripted production company in France and will oversee(…)

Dancing Ledge Productions (DLP), which launched three months ago with backing from FremantleMedia and a development deal with Martin Freeman, has kicked off the U.K.’s first TV production company(…)

Turner Asia Pacific has finalized a deal with Trans Media Corpora to air a dedicated branded block on national free-to-air television station, Trans TV. The branded block will feature(…)

Force Four Entertainment and Corus Entertainment have started principal photography on Chuck & Danny’s Road Trip, a cinematic culinary series for Food Network Canada starring chefs Chuck Hughes (Chuck’s Day Off) and Danny Smiles (Top Chef Canada). The six-part(…)

Canadian production and distribution studio Breakthrough Entertainment has appointed Caroline Tyre senior director, International Sales and Acquisitions. Tyre will report to Craig McGillivray, Vice-President, Distribution, and will manage sales of the studio’s(…)

U.K.-based distributor DCD Rights has renewed its output deal to distribute factual content from The Open University.  The multi-year agreement gives DCD Rights worldwide rights to almost 250 hours(…)

MIPCOM has unveiled the three speakers to lead the Media Mastermind Keynote. Sean Cohan, president, International and Digital Media, A+E Networks; Susanne Daniels, global head of Original Content, YouTube; and creator(…)

The Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia has appointed Marcy Carsey, Herman Gray, Kathy Im, Kim Masters, Mark McKinnon, and John Seigenthaler to its Board of Jurors. In a related(…)

CBS All Access, the CBS Television Network’s subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, has revealed new premiere dates for it’s original series Star Trek: Discovery and the all-new(…)

In preparation for MIPCOM, we’re running a series of brief interviews with leading executives. We chatted with Lionsgate’s president, International Television and Digital Distribution, Peter Iacono about the Santa(…)