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Following its latest study, GfK suggests that commercial-free streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon may need to consider accepting advertising as an alternative to raising their subscription fees in order to achieve revenue and profit growth.

LONDON: Alex Jones and Belinda Campbell have been appointed joint managing directors of Red Planet Pictures, the production company behind such dramas as Death in Paradise, The Passing Bells and Dickensian.

PARIS: Shonda Rhimes, whose TV credits include such hits as Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, is being honored as the MIPCOM 2016 Personality of the Year.

Thanks to the popularity of Apple TV devices, Apple has moved into the number three spot based on revenue in the overall global set-top box market, according to IHS. The company moved up to number three in 2015 from ninth place in 2014.

SEATTLE: Amazon is bringing back its hit series Transparent for a fourth season, to premiere exclusively on Prime Video in 2017.

LOS ANGELES: Komixx Media Group has optioned the worldwide rights to the young-adult thriller novel Under, from author Kelly Anne Blount.

STAMFORD: NBC Olympics’ coverage of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad from Rio de Janeiro will include 4K Ultra HD footage made available to cable, satellite, telco providers and other partners.

NEW YORK: Riverdale generated the greatest amount of Twitter buzz among The CW’s crop of new shows, according to The WIT, while Frequency was the network’s most talked-about trailer.

PREMIUM: Almost 2,000 acquisitions executives from abroad screened upwards of 100 TV shows during the week-long L.A. Screenings. They came, they scoured, and, by and large, they went back home to finalize and find the financing for their shopping lists after viewing the 42 high-profile series contenders for broadcast networks in the States. Most of their time was spent in darkened theaters at the six Hollywood major studios, though many made side trips to HBO, Lionsgate, MGM, eOne, and Legendary to view disparate projects handled by these content providers. Giddiness is not in the DNA of foreign program buyers, though most came away not unpleased with what they saw, and, in the case of those with ongoing supply arrangements, what they have to take. Still, the pressures under which these folks operate has never been greater.

MONACO: The Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated actress Marg Helgenberger will receive the Crystal Nymph Award at the 56th edition of the Monte Carlo Television Festival.