BBC Earth and Shanghai Media Group Collaborate
BBC Earth Films and SMG Pictures will team up to co-produce feature film Earth: One Amazing Day (working title). The movie is the first feature film to (…)
CRTC Approves Three Telelatino Channels
Canada’s CRTC approved Telelatino Network applications for three newly available regional Spanish language TV channels, operated by U.S.-based Hemisphere Media Group. The channels Telvisión Dominicana, Centroamerica TV (…)
iQIYI and NBCUni Sign Content Deal
Beijing-based streaming video platform iQIYI has entered into a new multi-year agreement with NBCUniversal International Distribution. The deal grants iQIYI, a subsidiary of search engine Baidu, expanded (…)
Telemundo Scores Big at PromaxBDA Awards
Telemundo Internacional, the content sales and distribution division of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, swept this year’s PromaxBDA Awards Latin America 2015 Sales Promotion – Collateral Material Category, winning (…)
Blue Ant’s Makeful Caters to the Crafty
Blue Ant Media‘s new lifestyle specialty channel, Makeful, will bring a lineup dedicated to crafting and the creation of handmade goods. The schedule will launch Monday, October 26, and (…)
Food Network Australia to Kick Off in November
Australia’s SBS will launch a new culinary television channel on November 17. The new channel, Food Network, will be available to all Australians across the country for free. (…)
First-Look Deal for Lionsgate, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz
Producer-writer-directors Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz have teamed up with Lionsgate in a multi-year first-look TV deal to create and produce scripted programming, announced Lionsgate Television Group Chairman (…)
Winners Announced for NHK’s Japan Prize
Winners of NHK’s Japan Prize 2015, which honors international achievements in educational media, were announced today. The Grand Prix Japan Prize went to Our Colonial Hangover, a film (…)
“Kingdom” Available on Digital HD After Broadcast
Endemol Shine North America and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have joined forces to bring the second series of DirecTV series Kingdom to Digital HD. Kingdom, a mixed-martial arts (…)
Starz Secures Over 100 Countries for “Ash vs Evil Dead” Premiere
Licensing agreements with broadcasters and digital platforms are in place for the Halloween premiere of Starz‘s Ash vs Evil Dead. The Starz original series is based on (…)