Kristin Brzoznowski

LONDON: Filming has started on the new six-part thriller Rellik, which stars Richard Dormer (Game of Thrones, Fortitude) and Jodi Balfour (The Crown, Bomb Girls, Quarry).

LONDON: The U.K.'s Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has requested that Ofcom look into the proposed combination of Sky and 21st Century Fox.

DALLAS: The European Commission has given its approval for AT&T’s pending acquisition of Time Warner.

LONDON: IMG is continuing its expansion in the scripted TV space with the appointment of Laura Andrews as VP of scripted programming for IMG Media.

PARIS: MIPTV will award the 2017 Médailles d’Honneur to ZDF Enterprises' Alexander Coridass, CTC Media's Viacheslav Murugov, Amazon Studios' Roy Price and Huace Group's Zhao Yifang.

GREENWICH: The $1 billion deal between Dalian Wanda Group and Dick Clark Productions owner Eldridge Industries has fallen through.

LOS ANGELES: Mikael Hed, a former CEO of Rovio Entertainment, has formed a new start-up, Kaiken Entertainment, which purchased Rovio's TV animation studio in Vancouver.

LONDON/BERLIN: FremantleMedia has invested more capital in the multiplatform network (MPN) Divimove.

NEW YORK: Liberty Global is among the new investors that contributed to iflix's latest funding round, with $90 million secured to accelerate the SVOD service's expansion into the Middle East, Africa and new markets in Asia.

PARIS: Damon Lindelof, co-creator and showrunner of the hit series Lost and The Leftovers, has been chosen as jury president for this year’s Series Mania international competition.