Kristin Brzoznowski

Snowfall, the first TV project from Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton, is coming to BBC Two, alongside a host of other newly announced programs, both factual and scripted. 

RTÉ has revealed its plans to develop the next-generation RTÉ Player, with the new service slated for launch before the end of the year.

Amazon has decided to shut down its Lovefilm By Post DVD rental service, citing “decreasing demand.”

Discovery Communications has sublicensed ARD and ZDF in Germany the free-to-air broadcast rights for live and highlights coverage of the Olympic Games through 2024. 

HBO Europe is strengthening its production activities in Central Europe and has tapped Ana Balentovic as development executive for the Adria region.

ProSiebenSat.1 Group has wrapped up the second quarter of 2017 with revenues of 962 million euros ($1.14 billion), an increase of 9 percent from the same period last year.

Ofcom’s annual Communications Market Report points to the U.K. as having become a binge-viewing nation, with eight in ten adults watching multiple episodes of their favorite shows in a single sitting.

all3media Deutschland has purchased _wige SOUTH&BROWSE, which specializes in factual entertainment and docutainment.

U.K. advertising expenditure grew 1.3 percent year-on-year in the first quarter to reach £5.31 billion ($6.9 billion), according to the Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report, marking the 15th consecutive quarter of growth but the slowest rate in four years.

Olympic Channel and Discovery Communications have struck up a new partnership that covers 50 markets in Europe.