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Outgoing BBC Director-General Tony Hall is to deliver an exclusive address to open this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival (ETF), brought to you by YouTube and Freeview.

PlayMonster, following the recent appointment of Tim Kilpin as president, has tapped Jeff Freeman to become the company’s new VP of global operations.

Banijay Rights has appointed Matt Creasey as executive VP of sales, co-productions and acquisitions for rest of the world, outside of EMEA.

Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices, a live-action preschool series that brings children’s stories from prolific Black creators to the screen, is set to bow on Netflix next month.

Endemol Shine has agreed to license additional series to FOX Entertainment’s ad-supported streaming service Tubi in the U.S.

WME partner and literary agent Melissa Myers has been named president and partner of a new venture between Kinetic Content founder and CEO Chris Coelen and Red Arrow Studios.

Global Agency has taken on the international distribution rights for the Turkish crime series Aleph.

Bruce L. Paisner, the president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, talks about how in the pandemic world we all inhabit today, there is an almost Hollywood-like sense of uncertainty.

pocket.watch and Sunlight Entertainment, owned by the family of YouTube phenom Ryan Kaji, have launched the new ad-supported channel Ryan and Friends, available now streaming live on The Roku Channel.

FilmRise has launched its new Destination TV Channel on the FilmRise Apps, as well as The Rifleman and Western TV Channels on Pluto TV.