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This week, Viacom Africa acquired Prime Entertainment Group’s Best of Fun from the Funny Clips collection for its MTV channel. The clip series, produced in 2015, brings the Internet’s (…)

Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter books, which have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, will be developed into a global entertainment property.  An agreement was signed yesterday between Mercer Mayer and Little Critter (…)

Temple Street Productions has formed a new parent company. Boat Rocker Media, headquartered in Toronto with New York and Los Angeles offices, will serve as the parent brand for (…)

Scripps Network Interactive has named Heng Yee Shan head of Brand Marketing and Communications, Asia-Pacific. In this newly created position, Shan will report to Derek Chang, managing director of Scripps (…)

Paris based creative producers Savoir-Fer and REAZ have joined forces with Tricon Kids & Family to co-produce CGI digital kids comedy shorts Me, Myself & My Selfie. The modern, non-verbal comedy shorts follow (…)

With Meryl Streep as the head, this year’s Berlinale International Jury has been released. The jury will decide who will receive the Golden Bear and Silver Bears of the (…)

ABC picked up the pilot for single-camera comedy Hail Mary, based on the Austrian series Braunschlag.  The ABC Studios and Sony Pictures Television co-production focuses on a young mayor of a small (…)

The creator of The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters’ Broadcasting Hall of Fame during the NAB television luncheon (…)

Vancouver-based production company Thunderbird has picked up Armoza Formats’ police drama Street Justice for development and local adaptation in the U.S. and Canadian markets. Street Justice has aired three (…)

Investigation Discovery U.S. has commissioned Arrow Media for a second series of See No Evil, which will premiere to American audiences February 23 at 10/9 central. The production company uses close-circuit television, (…)