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Radio host, podcaster and entrepreneur Charlamagne Tha God and iHeartMedia announced the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival, including featured speakers at the event aimed at aspiring podcasters in the Black community. The event is set for Saturday, April 26, from 12-8 p.m. ET at Pullman Yards in Atlanta. Charlamagne Tha God will join the […]

From his father, a Holocaust survivor, cartoonist Art Spiegelman learned how to best utilize the limited space in a suitcase, knowledge that he then applied to his hand-drawn panels, where information has to be conveyed in a concise manner. An eminence in the realm of comics, Spiegelman is best known for “Maus,” the two-volume graphic […]

FilmRise, a New York-based film and TV studio and streaming network, has announced the launch of a groundbreaking initiative to update the visual quality of its content by utilizing a mix of AI software and human editorial know-how. Employing this new blend, the company has converted the hugely popular true crime series “Forensic Files” into […]

Oslo-based heavyweight news-led Schibsted Media has agreed to acquire from Nordic and Baltic telco Telia its TV and Media business led by flagship TV companies TV4 in Sweden and MTV in Finland, the partners announced Tuesdsay. The transaction, worth SEK 6.55 billion ($615.3 million), is anticipated to close in the third quarter of 2025 at the latest, […]

Fox Ent. Global, Fox Ent.’s worldwide content sales division, has secured key international pre-sales for Foxtel’s Australian docu-soap “Billion Dollar Playground,” with major broadcasters acquiring the series for their local audiences. Under these deals, the series, produced by Ronde Media, will be available to viewers in the U.K. (BBC), Canada (Corus Ent.), New Zealand (Bravo) […]

Content shoppers, kings of the game in today’s TV market are being rolled out the red carpet at this week’s fifth London TV Screenings and first MIP London, touted by organizers RX France as an add-on to the indie distributors’ curated viewing showcase in the U.K. capital. As more than 900 buyers of scripted, non-scripted […]

Korean entertainment company Kakao Entertainment is expanding its global footprint through a new partnership with Japanese content studio Babel Label. The alliance aims to co-produce new dramatic content and adapt Kakao’s IP library for international audiences. The first collaboration under this partnership will be helmed by Babel Label’s director Fujii Michihito, marking his first project […]

Some fairytales end with a royal wedding. Season 2 of “Maxima” – about reigning Queen Maxima of the Netherlands – will start with one.   “These moments are still in our collective memory. We’ve all seen them on TV,” admitted producer Rachel van Bommel. “In the first season, we used archive footage. We’ll do it again, […]

ITV Studios weighs into the 2025 London TV Screenings with its biggest slate in the last couple of years, certainly on the format side, and one of the weightiest lineups of any company presenting in London this week.  Its Feb. 26 showcase at the Odeon Leicester Square, open exclusively to buyers, will launch 12 brand […]

On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart accidentally sliced his hand open while smashing a coffee mug on his desk. The gesture was made in anger towards the billions of dollars of federally funded pharmaceutical subsidies ignored by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. As an example of the U.S. government’s history […]