Kristin Brzoznowski

Anna Marsh has been appointed CEO of STUDIOCANAL, replacing Didier Lupfer, who is exiting the company to pursue independent production projects.

Alice Webb—who has spent 15 years at the BBC, most recently as director of the children’s and education department—has joined Universal Music UK's Eagle Rock Entertainment as CEO.

Canal+ Group and beIN SPORTS have begun exclusive talks with a view to entering an exclusive distribution and sublicensing deal in France.

RTL’s head of fiction, Philipp Steffens, is exiting the role, as the group combines the scripted teams for its linear TV channels and its streaming platform TVNOW.

Lasse Scharpen has been appointed as the new CEO of Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion, a subsidiary of ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE), taking the reins as of April 2020 with a mandate to establish the Berlin site as Studio Zentral.

BBC Studios and Yandex have agreed to a major output deal for content in Russia and the CIS, under which KinoPoisk HD will become the VOD home for Doctor Who.

The UK Creative Content EIS Fund has made its first investment, backing Wonderhood Studios, founded by former Channel 4 CEO David Abraham.

Sky is establishing a new studio at Elstree, with over 2,000 new jobs and £3 billion production investment in the U.K. creative sector expected in the first five years alone.

GroupM is forecasting that U.K. advertising will grow 7.8 percent in 2019, to £22 billion ($28.5 billion), with an optimistic outlook leading the firm to revise its 2020 forecast upward.

The Dublin-based group FRK Investments has launched a new fund under Netshow Capital that aims to back the production of high-budget TV series with international appeal.