TeaTime Pictures, the US-based production banner led by actor and producer Dakota Johnson and former Netflix executive Ro Donnelly, has signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television.

Disney+ and ABC News in the US have commissioned a shortform daily news show, marking the first time the news outlet has created a daily programme exclusively for the streaming service.

Justin Alvarado Brown has been promoted to co-CEO at Ridley Scott's production company, Scott Free Productions.

CEO and chair John Brunton on Insight Productions’ impending move under the Blue Ant umbrella – a deal that nearly happened more than once in the past – and his optimism for the future after CBC’s brush with potential defunding.  

US studio Legendary Entertainment, whose credits include blockbusters Godzilla, Dune and A Minecraft Movie, is reportedly eyeing a deal to acquire Lionsgate Studios.

Canada’s Corus Entertainment is set to close five of its linear kids’ channels including Nickelodeon and ABC Spark later this summer as it continues its cost-cutting drive.

Disney-owned US broadcaster ABC has ordered a reboot of the medical comedy Scrubs, with several of the main cast including Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke set to return.  

Fremantle’s Original Productions and animation outfit Mindshow are teaming up with Web3 company Stuff.io to release their forthcoming documentary How The World Went Ape$h!t, which charts the rise and fall of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the entertainment arm of story platform Wattpad, has unveiled a new organisational structure in North America and rebranded as Webtoon Productions.  

Warner Bros Discovery-owned streamer HBO Max, whose official rebrand came into effect on Wednesday, has ordered a sci-fi-influenced spin-off from hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory.