Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has named Alexander Bastin as senior VP and CEO of NENT Studios, from September 1.

BBC One has lined up the lockdown comedy Staged, a 6x15-minute series starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen.

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has decided to cancel its annual Writers’ Guild Awards amid the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown.

Baby Cow Productions has tapped Rupert Majendie as head of comedy development.

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is planning to launch its Viaplay streaming service in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the first quarter of 2021.

Armin Luttenberger, ORF-Enterprise’s head of content sales international, talks about adapting its lineup from the traditional seasonal one into “a more agile approach.”

ITV, BBC, Sky, Channel 4, Channel 5, STV, ITN, the Association for Commercial Broadcasters and On-Demand Services (COBA) and Pact have come together to introduce new guidelines for producing television safely in the weeks and months ahead.

Goldfinch has debuted its new U.K. streaming platform BirdBox.Film, which launches with channels for documentaries, drama and festival favorites.

Among the new shows included in an agreement between the digital platform more.tv and ViacomCBS is the Southern gothic drama Paradise Lost, starring Josh Hartnett (Penny Dreadful) and Bridget Regan (Agent Carter).

SF Studios has inked a new agreement with Warner Bros. to manage its physical (DVD and Blu-ray) home-entertainment releases in the Nordic region.