Kristin Brzoznowski

BURBANK: Bob Iger has extended his contract as The Walt Disney Company's chairman and CEO to July 2, 2019.

LONDON: FOX Networks Group Content Distribution (FNGCD) is bringing nearly 2,000 new hours of content to MIPTV, including the new FX and Marvel supernatural drama series Legion.

LOS ANGELES: A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has reinstated Scott and Deirdre Gurney as heads of Gurney Productions, the company that they founded and ran until a recent legal spat with ITV America.

TORONTO/COPENHAGEN: The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and the Danish Film Institute (DFI) have established an incentive for the co-development of digital media projects between Canadian and Danish producers.

MUNICH: Set in the near future, Cleverman is back for a second season, which Red Arrow International will be launching for sales at MIPTV.

PALISADES PARK: Alfred Haber, Inc. has sold the recently aired 59th annual Grammy Awards into a record of 197 territories around the world.

TEL AVIV: Armoza Formats has revealed the six new shows it is bringing to MIPTV, with a slate that includes the docu-reality series Play Date.

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.