The Canadian Media Producers Association and the Association québécoise de la production médiatique have joined the European Audiovisual Production Association as its first international observer members.

Skydance has revealed another raft of executive appointments and departures as JB Perrette, who oversees streaming and television outside the US, establishes the international leadership team following the US$110bn merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD).

TIFFCOM: The wave of live-action anime adaptations Steven Maeda expected to follow Netflix's One Piece has yet to materialise, with Hollywood's production downturn and the high cost of adapting popular Japanese IP making it difficult to get projects off the ground.

TIFFCOM: Tokyo Broadcasting System’s Katsuaki Setoguchi has called for Japanese broadcasters, streamers and producers to unite to create “J-content,” in the same way South Korea has cultivated a defined brand of world-renowned drama.

Netflix in Canada has entered into an exclusive creative partnership with Joseph Kay, the writer-producer behind hit medical drama Transplant.

TIFFCOM: Prime Video is planning to double its investment in original Japanese content over the next couple of years, according to Buddy Marini, head of Amazon MGM Studios Japan.

Lionsgate Television Group has promoted Scott Herbst to president, in addition to signing contract extensions with several key executives.

Disney+ is growing its originals team in Canada by hiring former CBC exec Mélanie Lê Phan, C21 has learned.

As the industry heads to Tiffcom in Tokyo this week, Goshu Segawa, who leads Japanese broadcaster TBS's US unscripted drive, discusses how the country's rapid-fire format creation process is translating to the American market.

NBCUniversal-owned network Bravo has commissioned its first scripted microdrama series, in addition to ordering an Atlanta-based spin-off of its reality series Next Gen NYC.