Kristin Brzoznowski

Digital TV Research is forecasting that the world's top 10 pay-TV operators will see revenue losses of about $20 billion by 2023, bringing their total down to $87 billion.

Tim Jones, who has served as VP of Travel NGP at Nat Geo Partners, has been tapped to succeed Jacqui Feeney as the new general manager of FOX Networks Group Australia, effective in July.

At its "FURTHER Front" upfront presentation in New York, National Geographic unveiled new scripted highlights, including The Hot Zone with Ridley Scott, as well as upcoming factual fare such as Hostile Planet from Guillermo Navarro, while Nat Geo WILD and Nat Geo Mundo also revealed fresh programming slates. 

Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution (TCFTVD) has sold FX programming internationally as a premium portfolio, with licensees such as France’s Canal+ Group and Australia’s Foxtel scoring first-run rights to all new series in the FX portfolio.

The first annual Lille Transatlantic Dialogues, set for May 3 as part of Series Mania's European Project and Talent Forum, has lined up as speakers Netflix's Reed Hastings, Endemol Shine's Sophie Turner Laing and TF1 Group's Gilles Pélisson, among others.

According to Digital TV Research, global pay-TV revenues peaked in 2016 at $205 billion and are forecast to fall by 11 percent to $183 billion in 2023.

The combination of MIPTV, the inaugural CANNESERIES festival, MIPDoc, MIPFormats, the MIPDrama Summit, the first In Development and an expanded Junior@MIPTV program of events drew 10,000 delegates from 102 countries, according to Reed MIDEM.

Louise Fox, producer and showrunner of the Australian paranormal series Glitch, has joined the Matchbox Pictures and NBCUniversal team in a role that will see her working exclusively for both outfits across a range of scripted projects.

Jennifer Salke, who recently took over as head of Amazon Studios, is shaking up the television division, appointing COO Albert Cheng as co-head of TV.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has revealed that writer, director and producer Greg Berlanti will receive the 2018 International Emmy Founders Award.