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Cassian Harrison, currently channel editor of BBC Four, has been appointed senior VP of commissioning and content global services at BBC Studios for a nine-month term.

Sarah Monteith has been tapped to fill the newly created role of managing director at Baby Cow Productions.

The BBC has unveiled a new schedule featuring Eurovision content across TV, radio and online in celebration of the music competition, which will not be taking place this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report has a revised forecast for U.K. advertising spending in 2020 of £21.13 billion ($26.5 billion), down 16.7 percent from 2019.

Scottish broadcaster STV is expanding its VOD offering with the addition of 270 hours of new content and two more live streaming channels to the STV Player.

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is continuing with its reorganization to focus on the growth of the Viaplay streaming service and increasing its drama output.

RTL Group delivered first-quarter revenues of €1.47 billion ($1.59 billion), a 3.4-percent decline from the same period last year, mainly due to lower ad revenues as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year will see Western Europe add about 45 million new SVOD subscribers, with COVID-19 shutdown measures providing a major boost to the sector, according to Digital TV Research.

Jodie Comer and Martin Freeman are among those taking part in the new productions of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads monologues, which first aired on BBC Television in 1988 and 1998.

U.K. TV viewing has risen 24 percent since the country's lockdown began, with audiences increasingly turning to classic TV shows, comedies, light entertainment and news, according to new research released by Thinkbox.