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Overall revenues at ITV for Q1 fell by 4 percent to £743 million ($966 million), with ad revenues down by 7 percent in the period.

Female-driven narratives are at the center of three drama series that Global Agency is spotlighting, including Sisters, which finds the daughters of estranged sisters uncovering their mothers’ dark secret while becoming tangled up in a conflict of their own.

The Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (Pact) has unveiled a new strategic initiative to support the U.K.’s independent TV production sector as it opens its Nations and Regions HQ in Leeds.

The true-crime anthology series The Act is set to land in the U.K., Germany and Spain, exclusively on the premium streaming service StarzPlay.

SF Studios has purchased a majority share in the production company FLX, which is behind the recently released Netflix series Quicksand.

BBC Studios has appointed Lisa McCormack to the position of director of production for its entertainment and music division.

Eastern Europe is expected to add 16 million SVOD subscriptions over the next five years, per Digital TV Research’s Eastern Europe OTT TV and Video Forecasts report.

The Royal Television Society (RTS) has confirmed its first batch of speakers for the RTS Cambridge Convention 2019, which will feature Chief Executive of ITV Carolyn McCall as chair.

Endemol Shine Nordics has formally given Tina Christensen the position of managing director of Denmark’s Metronome Productions.

U.K. adspend was up 6.3 percent year-on-year to reach £23.6 billion ($30.8 billion) in 2018, according to the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report, marking the ninth consecutive year of market growth and the highest annual total since monitoring began in 1982.