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CANNES: Calinos Entertainment is looking to notch up new international sales for the series Relationship Status: It’s Complicated and Emergency Love.

CANNES: The high-concept thriller Lifeline (Pulsaciones) will be on offer from Imagina International Sales at the market.

NEW YORK/BUDAPEST: AMC has reached a deal with Telekom Austria Group to substantially expand its reach in Croatia and Bulgaria.

STOCKHOLM: MTG Studios has given the go-ahead to a second season of Swedish Dicks, which will roll out to Viaplay subscribers in late 2017.

PARIS: Vincent Bolloré, the chairman of Vivendi, has upped his shareholding in the French conglomerate.

LONDON: As part of a newly signed multiyear pact, TalkTalk TV customers in the U.K. will receive continued access to Sky entertainment channels such as Sky 1 and Sky Living.

Western Europe’s pay-TV markets are going from strength to strength, while growth is slowing for Netflix and other OTT services in the region, according to new research from Ovum. Ovum's Western Europe: Pay-TV & Free-To-Air Forecasts to 2021 report finds that there were 98 million pay-TV subscribers in Western Europe at mid-2016 and is forecasting that 7 million more will be added by the end of 2021, taking the total to 105 million.

CANNES: The first episode of Planet Earth II, which comes ten years after the original blue-chip series, will make its world premiere at MIPCOM as part of a special screening.

LONDON: Eurosport has partnered with downhill skier Lindsey Vonn on the sports series Chasing History.

LONDON: Channel 4 has acquired the U.K. broadcast rights for ABC Studios’ hit comedy black-ish, which is slated to premiere on E4 this month.