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A high-end, 26 half-hour episode 3D-series featuring three inseparable BFF trainee witches, “Witch Detectives” is Mediawan Kids & Family latest pan-European new IP, produced by Mediawan subsidiary Method Animation for BBC, Rai, TF1 and Super RTL. International sales are managed b

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from the Season 2 finale of “Diarra From Detroit” now streaming on Paramount+. With the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger hanging in the balance and a presidential administration that is persistently hostile to diversity, Black

“RuPaul’s Drag Race UK” is moving from the BBC and headed to World of Wonder‘s streaming platform WOW Presents Plus. The news comes after The Sun reported that the show would be leaving the BBC as part of its cuts. However, Variety can confirm that in Fall 2027, the franchise wil

ABC News is adding a few new faces to its weekend morning mix. Rachel Scott, the Disney news division’s senior political correspondent, will start to co-anchor Saturday telecasts of “Good Morning America” on September 12, while Rhiannon Ally, who has worked on overnight programs,

Are you ready for some football? Yes, the 2026 NFL season will kick off on the night of Sept. 9 with a Super Bowl LX rematch, as the defending champion Seattle Seahawks square off against the New England Patriots. Over the past two decades, the NFL has emerged as far and away the

Mo’Nique has signed with Innovative Artists Entertainment for representation in all areas, Variety has learned. She continues to be repped by attorney Ricky Anderson and manager Sidney Hicks. Mo’Nique first broke out as a stand up comic, including being one of the stars of the st

Most TV viewers know MS NOW as a cable network. What if it were a social one, too? When the Versant Media-backed outlet launches a new subscription-based app this week, it does so with the vow to help new members communicate not only with MS NOW anchors and correspondents, but wi

APC Studios’ boutique distributor About Premium Content (APC) has signed a number of key international broadcast deals ahead of this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre on French-language scripted and unscripted series “Blue Gold,” “Seasons” and “An Artful Imbrolio.” The eig

Woody Norman (“C’mon C’mon”), Malachi Kirby (“Small Axe”), Tuppence Middleton (“Downton Abbey”), Conrad Khan (“Sunny Dancer”) and Kola Bokinni (“Ted Lasso”) are set to star in the British urban horror thriller “Skag & Bone.” The film, which is described as “Top Boy” meets “Talk t

Telecommunications giant Telekom Srbija is looking to position itself as not only the leading production hub in Serbia but a regional juggernaut for the countries of the former Yugoslavia, exporting local content while attracting international productions to the Balkan nation. “O

Vertical has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “Sanctuary,” an English-language, post-apocalyptic thriller starring “The Handmaid’s Tale’s” Nina Kiri. According to the synopsis, “Sanctuary” is set on a post-apocalyptic Earth, where the discovery of a cryogenically suspended wo

Georgi M. Unkovski’s “DJ Ahmet” leads the contest in the cinema categories for the Adriatic Film and TV Awards, which honor the top films and series from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia. “DJ Ahmet” premiered at the Sundanc

Created by Vivian Lin, Netflix’s latest YA series “Crew Girl” brings audiences into the competitive world of rowing. The show follows 16-year-old Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau), a single sculler whose entire life is derailed after her father, David (Byron Lawson), a wealthy hotelier

International media executive and producer Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and AI filmmaker Mark Wachholz have launched Dreamkite Studios, a Munich- and Berlin-based AI-native film studio, developing premium films, high-end TV series and IP-based short-form content. Dreamkite will combine

Nippon TV has ordered a second season of Talpa Studios’ game show “The Floor” in Japan, building on the format’s first full adaptation in Asia. The new season will premiere Oct. 21 across its national network. The season will run as a weekly series with an all-celebrity cast of 3

Yehuda Levi (“A Body that Works”) stars in a new international action-thriller “The Escape” for Keshet International. Set deep in the Colombian jungle, the eight-episode series, titled “Ha’Bricha” in Hebrew, centers around the scion of a religious cult leader who manages to flee

Amazon MGM Studios and Colour Yellow have unveiled the teaser for “Nayyi Navelli,” a fantasy family entertainer starring Yami Gautam Dhar, ahead of its October theatrical release in India. The teaser opens on what looks like an ordinary household before the brother-in-law levels

France may in general have suffered last year a sales’ decline and export slow-down but “Submarine Jim”‘s characters don’t seem to be bothered as they weather this storm with a smile on their face. Xilam’s latest production, in which a naive young dolphin (Jim) takes charge of an