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LONDON: First-quarter revenues at Sky rose 7 percent to £3.1 billion ($3.8 billion), with gains reported across all of its markets.

LONDON: Daniel Korn has been appointed VP of programming for A+E Networks UK, responsible for sourcing and scheduling content for the bouquet of pay-TV channels that includes HISTORY, Lifetime, Crime + Investigation and the recently launched free-to-air BLAZE.

CANNES: From ORF-Enterprise’s Universum strand comes the Ultra HD 4K factual highlight Giants of the Atlantic: Azores.

LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned a second season of the daytime reality-quiz hybrid The Question Jury from Monkey.

PARIS/LONDON: Peter Langenberg, who served as VP of business management at Warner Bros. International TV Production from 2011 until 2016, has been appointed chief operating officer of the Banijay Group.

CANNES: Personal transformations, home makeovers and dating take center stage in Twofour Rights’ formats slate.

CANNES: From Studio Lambert, the makers of Gogglebox, comes Common Sense, a weekly topical comedy series that all3media International is distributing globally.

MUNICH/LONDON: A new partnership between Palatin Media and Content Media Corporation will see the two working together to source and acquire shows as well as to co-distribute in the international market.

ISTANBUL: ITV Inter Medya has signed a distribution pact to represent a number of titles from Spain's Secuoya Group.

PARIS: Vivendi and Canal Group have aligned with eSports giant ESL in a pact that encompasses the launch of official leagues in France and television coverage.