Tricon Kids & Family’s original animated comedy series Counterfeit Cat will land on Disney XD and Disney Channel in multiple territories including France, South East Asia, Japan, Australia/New Zealand, and Latin America. The series, which follows (…)
9 Story Media Group has secured new broadcast, digital and licensing deals in China for the animated series Wild Kratts. Chinese national broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) has acquired broadcast rights for Wild Kratts. (…)
Reed MIDEM, organizer of MIPTV/MIPCOM, has unveiled plans to launch MIP China Hangzhou. The event will run May 23-25, the first time a MIP market has been held in (…)
Last night’s 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, broke several records. Game of Thrones took home the highest number of Emmy Awards won by a fictional series (…)
A new German-Canadian Residency Exchange program was unveiled today Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). In 2017, one German and one Canadian filmmaker will have the opportunity to live, work and find (…)
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 (…)
