Mansha Daswani

Belgian production company De Mensen is partnering with pubcasters VRT in Belgium and NPO in the Netherlands to co-produce at least five titles over the next three years.

After a difficult first half of the year, ProSiebenSat.1 Media says revenues stabilized in the third quarter, slipping by 3 percent to €888 million ($952 million).

While linear advertising revenues were down at ITV plc, the company said its results for the first nine months were fairly stable at £2.97 billion ($3.6 billion) thanks to gains at ITV Studios and in digital.

The Competition Markets Authority (CMA) in the U.K. is investigating suspected breaches of competition law by several broadcasters and production houses in freelance contracts.

Group external revenues for ITV plc in the first half of the year slipped by 2 percent to £1.64 billion, with gains at ITV Studios helping to offset a decline in advertising revenues.

Kevin Bakhurst, the new director-general of RTÉ, has replaced the Irish pubcaster's executive board with a temporary team.

Gilles Pélisson has been tapped as the new president of Unifrance, succeeding Serge Toubiana.

BT Group has begun the search for a new chief executive following the decision of Philip Jansen to step down in the next 12 months.

On the heels of FL Entertainment's launch of Banijay Events, Banijay Germany's Brainpool TV is restructuring its live events, agency and tour divisions under a new label.

Viaplay Group has put in place a new Nordic country-based operating model and unveiled its executive management team under recently appointed president and CEO, Jørgen Madsen Lindemann.