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WARSAW: Netflix has updated its service in Poland, using local language, currency and adding Polish TV shows and movies in addition to Netflix's original programming.

LONDON: Comedy Central UK has ordered a third season of the live-action comedy series Drunk History for broadcast early next year.

LONDON: Sister Pictures has unveiled the creation of a new label, Hootenanny, headed by Naomi de Pear.

CARDIFF: BBC Wales has announced a major reorganization that will bring together commissioning across television, radio and online for the very first time.

LONDON: ITV has inked a new three-year deal for Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor that will see the shows remain on the commercial channel until at least 2019.

LONDON: The BBC's director-general, Tony Hall, has welcomed the newly drafted charter as an "opportunity to write the next chapter in the BBC’s history."

The Eastern Europe Pay TV Operator Forecasts report from Digital TV Research estimates that 44 of Eastern Europe’s top 64 operators will increase their subscriber bases between 2015 and 2021. Simon Murray, principal analyst at Digital TV Research, said: “So 20 of the top operators will lose subscribers—or 31 percent of the total. Perhaps this is not that unpredictable given that the region still had 24.5 million analog cable TV subscribers by end-2015.”

LONDON: Sky has invested $1 million in The Drone Racing League (DRL), and has inked a distribution deal that will see the competition come to the newly launched Sky Sports Mix channel.

LONDON: Franck Firmin-Guion, previously CEO of the French production outfit ALP, has been appointed president of ITV Studios France.

LONDON: The head of the BBC Trust, Rona Fairhead, has resigned, after the Prime Minister ordered a re-run of her controversial appointment process.