Netflix has picked up PBS Kids’ long-running children’s series Sesame Street after Warner Bros Discovery-owned HBO Max decided not to renew its streaming deal for the show last year.

Paul Robinson is leaving his role as president of kids’ content company Kartoon Studios’ Kartoon Channel in mid-June.

Danny Wilk, president of US unscripted specialist Big Media, says traditional television is missing a few tricks in its fight to stop audiences and advertisers fleeing to social platforms.

Paramount Global Content Distribution has secured international distribution rights to M.I.A., the upcoming drama series from MRC, and is launching the title to global buyers in LA this week.

Almost one in four people in senior roles across UK broadcasters and production companies were privately educated, according to the latest report from the TV Foundation.

Disney’s National Geographic has secured a multi-territory rights agreement for Australian documentary series Built to Survive, coproduced by Butter Media and Breslin Media.

European production group Fremantle and London-based factual specialist 72 Films are teaming up on feature doc Emma: One Last Dance, chronicling the career of football manager Emma Hayes.

Belgian regional funding agency Screen Flanders is investing €2m in seven audiovisual productions, including a forthcoming project from European broadcasting collective New8.

SBS in Australia, Corus Entertainment in Canada and Canal+ in Poland have picked up unscripted culinary series Dinner with Gavin Rossdale.

UK public broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a court-based reality format from Wall to Wall Media.

Sony Pictures Television has greenlit a spin-off from its crime procedural S.W.A.T., which wrapped an eight-episode run on CBS last week.

LA-based production group V10 Entertainment, owner of companies including America’s Funniest Home Videos maker Vin Di Bona Productions, has appointed former Paramount executive Samantha Cooper.