Herb Lazarus: When Doing Business While Having Fun Was a Priority
Herbert “Herb” Lazarus has become the reason and example for why many TV executives no longer (voluntarily) retire. At 80 years old, with 60 years in the business, Lazarus is (…)
Finalists Announced for Whistler Film Festival’s Power Pitch
Six Canadian producers have been selected to participate in Whistler Film Festival + Summit‘s Power Pitch, which offers an opportunity for Canadian producers to sharpen their pitching skills (…)
Japan Content Showcase Wraps Up
The Japan Content Showcase, which took place October 20-22 at Tokyo’s Grand Pacific Le Daiba, featured nearly 350 exhibitors from 24 countries and regions and almost 1,500 (…)
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 (…)