NEW YORK, March 17: In this video interview, Discovery Communications’ president and CEO, David Zaslav, reflects on what has made the company’s brands so strong over the last 25 years and what's still ahead.

HILVERSUM, March 17: Entering into its fifth joint venture in three months, Talpa Media has inked a deal with Shine Group for a new co-owned outfit aimed at the markets of Australia and New Zealand.

SINGAPORE, March 17: The general-entertainment pay-TV channel AXN is to launch in high definition in Southeast Asia this May.

MUMBAI, March 16: Fox STAR Studios is teaming up with Rohan Sippy Entertainment for the project Dum Maaro Dum, produced by Ramesh Sippy and directed by Rohan Sippy.

VICTORIA, March 15: The Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF) has sold the second season of the live-action children's series Lockie Leonard to Disney XD, which will launch the show in June.

LONDON, March 15: The Foundation, part of the RDF Media group, has been commissioned to produce a fourth and fifth season of the children's game show Escape from Scorpion Island for CBBC in the U.K. and ABC TV in Australia.

CULVER CITY, March 15: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has reworked its Animax channel to focus more broadly on youth culture, along with extending its programming to alternate platforms.

LOS ANGELES, March 15: Moving Pictures Film & TV is to showcase its latest theatrical acquisition, Deadfall Trail, at the upcoming Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart).

COLLINGWOOD, March 15: The Australia-based factual outfit Looking Glass International has landed new sales for the hour-long Megawheel, produced by Film Formations of Singapore.

SINGAPORE, March 12: The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) has announced new regulations that require pay-TV platforms to make their exclusive content available on rival systems.

LOS ANGELES, March 12: E! International Network delivered its most-watched red carpet season ever, with coverage of the Golden Globes, Grammys, BAFTAs, SAG Awards and Academy Awards.

MIAMI, March 12: Latin Media Company (LMC), headed by Jose Escalante, has partnered with Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) to produce its first Malaysian telenovela-style drama for the worldwide market.

LONDON, March 11: The U.S. version of Wall to Wall's original format Who Do You Think You Are?, which premiered on NBC on March 5, has been sold by Outright Distribution into eight territories.

MUMBAI, March 11: The Walt Disney Company in India has unveiled plans for its first locally developed studio project aimed specifically at Southern Indian audiences, an as-yet-unnamed epic fantasy adventure.

SILVER SPRING, March 10: The newly created role of international head of content for Discovery Communications is to be filled by Luis Silberwasser, who currently serves as senior VP of the content group for Discovery Networks Latin America/U.S. Hispanic and general manager of U.S. Hispanic Networks.

NEW YORK, March 9: The prime-time soap opera Dirt Game is making its premiere outside of Australia with a launch on WE tv in Asia on March 12.

TEL AVIV, March 8: Dori Media Group has sold the teen vampire series Split into 35 countries since its launch nine months ago, with the Philippines as the latest territory, and the first in Asia, to pick up the daily drama.

NEW DELHI, March 8: ESPN STAR Sports has signed a deal with Media Star Global to produce and air the Indian football reality show Super Soccer Star.

PARIS, March 8: Mooscoop has wrapped a deal with Chutti TV, Sun TV's kids' channel in India, for 725 half-hours of programming.

SYDNEY, March 5: Beyond Distribution has licensed the sixth season of Mythbusters to Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP), which has additionally agreed to take on all episodes of the series being produced.

NEW YORK, March 4: Shine Group's chairman and CEO, Elisabeth Murdoch, was interviewed by World Screen's group editorial director, Anna Carugati, at NATPE this year.

NEW YORK, March 4: Jeff Gomez and Nathan Mayfield will be hosting a session at the MIPTV Producers' Forum—a two-day initiative organized in association with World Screen—about developing stories and concepts across multiple platforms.

NEW DELHI, March 4: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific has scored a carriage deal for Discovery HD with the DTH platform Sun Direct, bringing the total number of channels it operates in India to six.

JAKARTA, March 4: Indonesian media conglomerate PT Media Nusantara Citra (MNC), which operates the leading terrestrials RCTI and TPI, has agreed to a multiyear program licensing deal with Disney-ABC International Television (DAIT) Asia Pacific covering series and original movies for kids and family audiences.

SYDNEY, March 4: Beyond Distribution will be offering up more than 200 hour of new content in their catalogue for MIPTV, spanning genres such as children's, factual, documentary, science and crime.

NEW YORK, March 3: The Producers' Forum is a new two-day initiative at MIPTV, organized in association with World Screen. Kicking off a series on the panelists at Producers' Forum, David Lyle, the president of Fox Reality Channel, discusses the Entertainment Master Class on selling and protecting formats.

HONG KONG, March 3: Senior executives from a range of channel operators and platforms are lined up to speak at the Asia Pacific Pay-TV Operators Summit (APOS) 2010, taking place in May in Bali, including Astro's Rohana Rozhan, Austar's John Porter and Fox International Channels' David Haslingden.

SYDNEY, March 3: Turner International Australia has hired Melissa Fitzgerald to serve as its sales director for Australia and New Zealand, effective April 6.

LONDON, March 2: The premiere of Pilipinas Got Talent, the Filipino adaptation of FremantleMedia's hit competition format, debuted on ABS-CBN with a 38.7-percent audience share.

PARIS/NEW YORK, March 1: There are 13 nominees across three categories for this year's International Digital Emmy Awards, which will be presented at a special ceremony on April 12 at MIPTV.