Kristin Brzoznowski

Filming for season two of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag has begun, with Olivia Colman, Sian Clifford, Bill Paterson, Brett Gelman, Jenny Rainsford and Hugh Skinner all returning.

Tomorrow Studios has secured an overall deal with creator and showrunner Chad Hodge and his company Storyland.

Apple has secured the rights for Anonymous Content to produce a project based on Nathaniel Rich’s New York Times Magazine narrative Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change and his upcoming book based on Losing Earth.

China has overtaken the U.K. in the television programming industry, becoming the second-largest market in the world after the U.S., according to IHS Markit.

Kenya Barris (Black-ish, Grown-ish, Girls Trip) has entered into a multiyear overall deal to produce new series exclusively at Netflix.

Strategy Analytics is forecasting that global consumer and advertising spend on TV and video will increase from $490 billion in 2017 to $559 billion in 2022, driven by OTT.

Netflix and Millarworld are collaborating on Prodigy, which will be the second comic-book franchise since Mark Millar linked up with the company.

AT&T has acquired The Chernin Group’s controlling interest in Otter Media, a joint venture between the two companies.

WndrCo, a holding company co-founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, has secured $1 billion in an initial funding round for the mobile-first media platform NewTV from investors such as 21st Century Fox, Disney, Entertainment One, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal and Viacom.

Discovery, Inc. has appointed Peter Faricy, who joins the company from Amazon, to the newly created role of CEO of global direct-to-consumer.