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Boat Rocker Media acquired the principal assets of Toronto’s Proper Television and Proper Rights. Proper will continue to run as an independent business within the Boat Rocker Media umbrella. The (…)

All3Media International signed a licensing deal with Hulu for the U.S. streaming VoD rights to GameFace. Produced by Objective Fiction, the six-part series will be available on Hulu this fall. The (…)

The Diplomatic Council is presenting the current Global Media Board, a committee that convenes to decide on the Global Media Innovator 2018, which will be warded during the 2018 DC Gala. (…)

Banijay Rights sold the bi-lingual drama Bang to Sweden’s SVT. The eight-part crime series premiered on S4C earlier in September. Created in both Welsh and English, the series tells the sibling story (…)

U.K.-based production and distribution company Silverlining brought on Rachel Job for the newly created role of director of Acquisitions. Prior to joining Silverlining, Job served 10 years at A+E Networks UK, (…)

The New York Television Festival announced the special events line-up for the 13th annual festival, which runs from October 23-28, 2017. In addition to the 52 official selections in the Independent (…)

NBCUniversal International Formats secured Wedlocked for local adaptations in Germany and Serbia. Each episode of Wedlocked focuses on two families who come together for their children’s wedding. The families plan everything that needs to (…)

Deutsche Telekom commissioned its first original series, Germanized, for EntertainTV. Coproduced with Bavaria Fernsehproduktion and Telfrance, the ten-part comedy series set in a French town where a Germany company and its (…)

Telemundo will be presenting a four-hour television special, Todos Unidos, on September 24, 2017. Hosted by Mario Kreutzberger a.k.a. Don Francisco, the TV event will bring together celebrities and artists to (…)

Walt Disney International appointed Rebecca Campbell, president of ABC Owned Television Station Group and ABC Daytime, to president of The Walt Disney Company Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Campbell’s new (…)