Logo Reaches Thursday Night Ratings Success
Logo’s RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars is reaching new ratings heights. September 22’s episode was the highest-rated episode in All Stars history, up 88% from the current season average. (…)
MGM Acquires Rights to Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Heart Goes Last’
MGM Television has secured the television rights to Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last. The novel, published in fall 2015, tells the story of Stan and Charmaine, a young (…)
WB’s Blue Ribbon Developing Babymetal Digital Series
Japanese pop-metal sensation Babymetal has nabbed a deal for an original shortform series from Warner Bros.’ digital studio Blue Ribbon Content and Japan’s Amuse Inc’s subsidiary, Amuse USA. Key Kobayashi, Babymetal’s (…)
The Road to MIPCOM: A Q&A with Starz’s Gene George
As part of our Road to MIPCOM series, we have chatted with several top executives about their plans for the upcoming market. This week, we spoke to Starz’s evp, Worldwide (…)
MIPCOM Celebrates Japan with Showcase
As part of the Japan Country of Honor showcase, MIPCOM has released a two-day conference program illustrating the very best of the Japanese TV industry. A Japan Market Overview will (…)
GRB’s ‘Bad Night’ Up for Streamy
GRB Entertainment’s film Bad Night, now available worldwide, has been nominated for Best Feature at the 6th Annual Streamy Awards. The Feature category is new to the Streamy Awards this (…)
Bomanbridge Snags ‘Care Bear’ Deals
Singapore-based content distribution and production agency Bomanbridge Media has secured multiple territory deals for the Care Bears program with American Greetings Entertainment, the intellectual property and outbound licensing division of American Greetings (…)
9 Story Lands Sales for ‘Nature Cat’
9 Story Media Group has secured multiple international sales for the animated series Nature Cat, which is aimed at three-to-eight-year olds. SVT (Sweden), TG4 (Ireland), SIC (Portugal), Canal Panda (Spain) Nick Jr (Italy) via Funwood Media, E Junior (Middle East), and Hop (…)
Blue Ant Adds New Titles to Slate
Blue Ant International, a division of Blue Ant Media, has expanded its acquisition slate of factual entertainment, paranormal, lifestyle and native UHD wildlife and nature programming. Latest factual entertainment titles (…)
Mondo TV Launches Studio in Tenerife
European producer and distributor Mondo TV will launch a new production studio in Santa Cruz de Tenerife through its subsidiary Mondo TV Iberoamerica. At a press conference on September (…)