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Netflix has ordered a second season of its arctic comedy North of North, a co-production with CBC.

Rupinder Downie, content solutions leader at Channel 4, joined the CTV Festival with Joe Churchill, digital commissioning editor at the pioneering public-service broadcaster, to discuss successful advertiser-funded content initiatives on linear and social video.

Henrik Pabst, the head of content at ProSiebenSat.1 Media, told CTV Festival viewers about how the German media group is evolving its strategies for reaching audiences and advertisers in a keynote Q&A with World Screen’s Mansha Daswani today.

Ross Appleton, VP and general manager for the U.K. at Tubi, spoke at the Connected TV Festival today about driving usage and advertiser gains for the AVOD platform as it nears its first anniversary in the competitive British landscape.

Lionsgate Television Group has upped Taylor du Pont to head of television postproduction.

Kelly Conniff has been appointed as the head of creative at TIME Studios.

OGM UNIVERSE is introducing clients to its new drama The Fall of the King, adapted from Gülseren Budayıcıoğlu’s best-selling novel and starring Halit Ergenç.

Day one of the Connected TV Festival wrapped with an insightful conversation with Brian Toombs, the head of Roku Brand Studio, about how the company is using its significant reach to scale its options for advertisers.

The digital edition of the Turkish TV Festival agenda is now available.

On the heels of her appointment to lead ZDF Studios’ B2C department, Linette Zaulich weighed in on AVOD licensing opportunities, YouTube engagement and FAST channel rollouts as the CTV Festival continued today.