UNIVERSAL CITY: The comedy The Good Place has been given an order for a 13-episode second season by NBC.

SHERMAN OAKS: ITV Studios America has hired Dwayne Shattuck as the company's executive VP of production, effective immediately.

LUXEMBOURG: RTL Group has decided not to exercise its option to acquire the remaining 49-percent shareholding in BroadbandTV, but rather will explore "all strategic alternatives" for the internet video company.

LONDON: Discovery and Sky have managed to agree on terms of a new carriage pact, preventing a potential channel blackout.

SÃO PAULO: The Globo telenovela Hidden Truths has been picked up in Vietnam, where it will broadcast on the free-to-air channel HTV9 starting February 9.

LONDON: Eleventh Hour Films, the producer behind New Blood and Foyle's War, has brought in Mike Ellen to serve as head of development.

AMSTERDAM: Zoomin.TV, part of MTG, has made an investment of more than €2 million ($2 million) to support its Generation Z strategy in Germany, appointing former Clipkit CEO Cengiz Kurt to lead Zoomin.TV Deutschland as part of this initiative.

LONDON: FremantleMedia is bringing its entertainment and factual labels Thames, Boundless and Talkback under one genre umbrella, allowing them to more easily combine their expertise and work together.

BERLIN: Ken Duken stars in the Berlin-set crime series Tempel, on offer from ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE).

LONDON: The latest international revenue figures show current sales for British TV programming at more than £1.3 billion ($1.6 billion), up 10 percent year on year.