Nickelodeon handed renewals to a brace of series today, including second seasons of Are You Afraid of the Dark? and The Casagrandes. The network also ordered 10 more episodes of the first season of the revived All That. Coming back for more in 2020-21 are veteran kids series PAW Patrol, Bubble Guppies, Blaze and the…

Nickelodeon has unveiled its 2020-2021 programming slate, its second under ViacomCBS Kids & Family president Brian Robbins, ahead of ViacomCBS’ earnings call later this week. Newly greenlighted series include The Astronauts, the network’s first co-production with Imagine Kids+Family, due for summer 2020 bow; a…

International TV event Series Mania has unveiled its 2020 lineup, which boasts world premieres for dramas including The Luminaries, Little Birds and Adult Material. The event is staged in Lille, northern France, between March 20-28, and is becoming an increasingly prominent part of the international TV calendar…

Satellite TV provider Dish Network said Wednesday net pay-TV subscribers dropped by 194,000 in the fourth quarter to about 12 million, including 9.4 million for DISH TV subs and 2.59 million for Sling TV. But the Denver-based company reported a net decrease of 334,000 in the year-ago quarter, so the loss has narrowed…

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese is set to re-team with Paul Schrader on the First Reformed director's next movie The Card Counter. Fresh off his latest Oscar nominations for The Irishman, Scorsese will executive-produce the revenge thriller pic, marking his fifth collaboration with Schrader after Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, T…

Jakob Mejlhede Andersen has stepped down as CEO of Nordic Entertainment Group's UK division. Mejlhede Andersen was appointed to the role in October 2019, having joined from his role as EVP and Chief Content Officer for NENT Group's Viaplay streaming service. The company is now searching for a new chief executive…

Following another streamer-dominated Sundance where deal-making soared beyond $120M, the onus at the European Film Market in Berlin is expected to shift back to a more traditional scene of single territory theatrical acquisitions, largely by European buyers. Scroll down for our list of hot market debuts. The EFM…

UPDATE: After today’s story that Creative England’s popular iFeatures scheme was looking at an uncertain future, Lady Macbeth producer Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly and director William Oldroyd got in touch to ask if they could send over a comment to voice their support for the program, which I’ve added to the end of this…

EXCLUSIVE: The Boy and The Devil Inside filmmaker William Brent Bell is set to direct contemporary folk-horror Lord Of Misrule, which Bankside is launching world sales on at the EFM. Set in a small town in the English countryside, the film will follow a desperate search for the young daughter of the town’s new…

Jill Halfpenny, Jonas Armstrong and Rupert Penry-Jones are to star in an identity thriller for British broadcaster Channel 5 from Noel Clarke and Jason Maza’s Unstoppable Film & Television. The Drowning is the latest drama order for the ViacomCBS network, which has been aggressively ramping up its scripted slate with…