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CANNES: In Nordic World’s The Stream, new artists are discovered and created in a way that replicates the workings of today’s music industry.

LONDON: Passion Distribution is preparing to showcase more than 200 hours of new content at MIPCOM this month, including The Next Great Magician.

LONDON: UKTV’s entertainment channel Dave has renewed Taskmaster for a fourth and fifth season.

LONDON: Sky has made a big push in the world of virtual reality with the launch of the brand-new app Sky VR.

LONDON: Gail Harman, most recently at Tuesday's Child Television, has been named creative director of development at ITV Studios Entertainment, where Martin Lau joins the team as development executive.

LONDON: U.K. producer 7 Wonder has appointed Duncan Coates to the newly created role of creative director.

MUNICH/CANNES: Red Arrow International is prepping its slate for MIPCOM, where it will offer a range of titles spanning formats, factual and scripted, including the Scandi thriller Farang.

LONDON: John Cassy, who spent ten years at Sky, and BAFTA-winning director Daniel Smith have formed a new immersive content production studio, Factory 42, the first commission for which will be a bespoke virtual-reality experience for Sky.

BARCELONA: Laura Fernández Espeso has been appointed as Mediapro’s head of international content.

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group (MTG) and M7 Group have inked an agreement to make ESL’s esportsTV channel available in the Nordics, the Baltics, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.