Kristin Brzoznowski

CANNES: Keshet International (KI) has licensed its Israeli series The Baker and The Beauty and Milk & Honey to Walter Presents, Channel 4’s recently launched foreign-language on-demand service.

ISMANING: Romance TV is expanding its footprint in Eastern Europe with launches in Romania and Hungary.

DUBLIN: Dee Forbes, currently the president and managing director of Discovery Networks Northern Europe, has been tapped as the new director-general of Ireland's RTÉ.

LONDON: Vera Buzanello has been named executive VP and general manager of Discovery Networks Iberia, responsible for Spain and Portugal, after having previously led the distribution side of the business in these countries for a number of years.

BUDAPEST: AMC Networks International – Central Europe (AMCNI CE) has reached two new deals for AMC carriage in Slovakia, with DIGI Slovakia and Slovak Telekom both adding the channel to their lineup.

LONDON: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has scored the international distribution rights for the portfolio of content from 5Production, Channel 5’s in-house production arm.

LONDON: Zig Zag Productions has been tapped to produce a second season of the music-based quiz show Blink for Channel 4.

PARIS: The Series Mania Festival's Co-Production Forum has received more than 200 projects from 33 different countries as entries for this year’s event, which will take place April 19 to 21 in Paris.

PARIS: STUDIOCANAL has brought in Matthew Gledhill to serve as senior VP of international production.

STOCKHOLM: Eccho Rights has added two senior executives to its team, Dorit Schilling in Germany and Karin Strandberg Blom in Sweden.