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CANNES: Keshet International (KI) has licensed its Israeli series The Baker and The Beauty and Milk & Honey to Walter Presents, Channel 4’s recently launched foreign-language on-demand service.

LONDON: Sky Vision and Sky Arts are launching the Arts Buyers Club, a new non-profit initiative meant to support the creation and exploitation of arts programming and events.

LONDON: Discovery Communications has appointed Dominic Baillie as chief technology officer of Olympics & Sports, and Simon Farnsworth as senior VP of Olympic Technical Distribution.

ISMANING: Romance TV is expanding its footprint in Eastern Europe with launches in Romania and Hungary.

CANNES: STUDIOCANAL is expanding its TV series production abilities with investments in three companies: Benedict Cumberbatch's SunnyMarch TV, Urban Myth Films and Spanish outfit Bambú Producciones.

LONDON/CANNES: Zig Zag Productions has signed on to produce the factual-entertainment series British Treasure, American Gold (working title) for Quest in the U.K. and RMC Découverte in France.

CANNES: There’s a second season available of the Austrian series Suburbia: Women on the Edge, which ORF-Enterprise will be talking to buyers about.

CANNES: Iain Glen stars in the Content Television crime drama Jack Taylor, based on novels by Ken Bruen.

DUBLIN: Dee Forbes, currently the president and managing director of Discovery Networks Northern Europe, has been tapped as the new director-general of Ireland's RTÉ.

LONDON: Vera Buzanello has been named executive VP and general manager of Discovery Networks Iberia, responsible for Spain and Portugal, after having previously led the distribution side of the business in these countries for a number of years.