Mansha Daswani

On the heels of a better-than-expected first quarter, ProSiebenSat.1 Group has increased its projections for 2021 revenues by €100 million ($121 million) to between €4.3 billion ($5.2 billion) and €4.5 billion ($5.5 billion).

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has sealed a deal to bring Formula 1 coverage to Poland.

RTL Group saw the number of paying subscribers for its streaming services TV Now and Videoland rise by 71 percent year-on-year in the first quarter.

Lookout Point has taken a founding stake in Boffola Pictures, a new production company focused on comedy and comedy-drama for the U.K. and international markets.

Advertising spend in the U.K. is projected to rise by 15.2 percent this year to reach £27 billion ($38 billion), recovering the £1.8 billion ($2.5 billion) lost last year amid the pandemic, according to the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report.

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has inked a two-cycle deal with Bundesliga International, covering nine markets, that runs until 2029.

The U.K. government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has unveiled a new one-year pilot fund to boost international development and distribution opportunities for local companies across the film, TV, animation, documentary and interactive narrative games sectors.

ITV is looking to ramp up commissions of youth-skewing scripted and factual, with plans to premiere some content on-demand first on the ITV Hub.

The number of SVOD subscribers in Western Europe will rise from 137 million at the end of last year to 234 million by 2026, according to data from Digital TV Research.

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has sold its branded-entertainment unit Splay One to the Swedish digital media company Caybon.