Lionsgate and Silver Pictures Television have set a script deal titled New People at Freeform (formerly ABC Family). Feature film writer/director Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex) will write (…)
Independent U.K. based distributor DCD Rights has made deals for its culinary content host of new territories, as A Cook Abroad, Sarah Graham’s Food Safari and Sicily with Aldo & Enzo are picked up (…)
Ecuadorian journalist and filmmaker Jeanette Hinostroza will be a featured speaker at Documentary Campus’ MIPDoc panel “True Crime: What’s the Buzz.” The panel focuses on the popularity of true-life crime programming (as (…)
Fred Media’s Tony Robinson’s Time Walks will be broadcast on free-to-air television in Australia for the first time. The series will launch April 8 at 8pm on ABC, which has (…)
The Australian web-based sci-fi series Airlock, starring Mark Coles Smith (Last Cab to Darwin) and Dan Mor (Arrowhead), will make its TV debut on Australia’s SyFy Channel. Enzo Tedeschi’s series about a (…)
Los Angeles and London-based formats company Small World IFT has named Tara Gaule vice president, Format Sales and Development, Europe. The company has also promoted sales executive Henny Adolfsdottir. (…)
Fast-growing African-American TV network Bounce TV has launched of a free mobile app. The Bounce TV app offers full seasons of Bounce TV’s original series, including hit shows Saints & (…)
Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo Nazario will address the MIPTV audience with a keynote speech. Ronaldo, also a sports commentator on Globo, will showcase the Brazilian sports broadcasting capabilities as (…)
Toronto’s 9 Story Media Group has licensed three animated children’s shows to U.K broadcasters. Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoonito U.K. signed for the first season of Fred Rogers-produced preschool series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, which (…)
Indie film distributor Gravitas Ventures has picked up the VOD and home video rights to Soren Sorensen’s My Father’s Vietnam. The film, which focuses on the filmmaker’s father, Peter (…)
