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EXCLUSIVE: Former Keshet International SVP Limor Gott Ronen has reunited with Alon Shrutzman at 5XMedia. Gott Ronen has joined the management company and production house as partner/producer, working alongside 5X partner Ryan Lindenberg, the former Berlanti Productions exec who joined in June, to add…

EXCLUSIVE: Media industry veteran Karolina Waclawiak has been appointed to serve as Head of Documentary at BuzzFeed Studios. She comes to the role after serving as Editor in Chief and Executive Editor of Culture at BuzzFeed News for more than seven years and will now oversee the development and…

EXCLUSIVE: TV industry veteran Katharina Feistauer has joined film service Mubi. She has taken on a VP of Global Programming role at the film distributor, producer and streamer, having exited Paramount Global’s PlutoTV recently. Feistauer will report to Jason Ropell, Mubi’s Chief Content…

Sinclair Broadcast Group has ousted longtime Tennis Channel chairman and chief executive officer Ken Solomon, citing time spent in non-work activities as reasoning for his departure. Specifically, the parent company took issue with the executive’s advisory and board member role for Dr. Phil McGraw’s Merit…

Donna Langley, Chairman, NBCUniversal Studio Group & Chief Content Officer, sees original movies as a key ingredient in Universal’s film slate, but applying “topspin” to familiar titles can also pay box office dividends. The longtime film executive, who was promoted last year to a larger role with TV…

Warner Bros. Discovery announced a new global structure for the company's worldwide studio tours, retail destinations, touring exhibitions, and all location-based experiences, bringing together the existing licensed entertainment and owned and operated teams into a single worldwide division called Warner…

EXCLUSIVE: With the fall festival season well underway, Anonymous Content is finding its groove after a period of change. The company worked on a slew of projects that launched at the Venice Film Festival, including the first four episodes of Alfonso Curarón's limited series Disclaimer with Cate…

EXCLUSIVE: Deep Fusion Films, the UK doc maker behind upcoming doc Hunt: We Need to Talk About James, has hired AI and visual effects guru Christian Darkin. He is joining the Cardiff-based producer as Head of Creative AI, leading on the development and creation of artificial intelligence software and…

EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle’s German sales chief, Maximilian Bolenius, is leaving the Got Talent maker after 14 years. Bolenius, Fremantle’s Senior Vice President for German-speaking Europe and Israel, has let clients know he is exiting in an email today, we understand. Fremantle confirmed the departure to…

A few months into its push to integrate streaming into its pay-TV and broadband packages, Charter Communications remains convinced the strategy is a winning one. Asked at the Bank of America Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference if streaming integrations have kept Spectrum customers…

EXCLUSIVE: Snipple Animation has hired sales exec Mike Hegarty, as it plans to expand its studio production offer in the UK and North America. The company, which has a studio facility in the Philippines and a UK office, wants to build out what it can provide partners on 2D animated series, from early…

The man who oversaw the relaunch of ITV’s streaming service will lead Scotland’s STV as CEO. Rufus Radcliffe has been appointed to succeed Simon Pitts, who was named Chief Executive at British media firm Global earlier this year. Pitts exits on October 31 and Radcliffe will become STV Group boss a…