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CANNES: Dramas are at the top of RTVE’s slate for MIPTV, with the time-traveling series The Department of Time a particular market highlight.

LONDON: Sky has picked up a minority stake in Sugar Films, which also received an investment from former Discovery Networks International president and CEO Mark Hollinger, who will become chairman.

CANNES: TV 2 Norway has teamed up with three of the biggest record labels in search of the country’s most popular new artist in The Stream, which Nordic World is licensing as a format.

CANNES: The international-distribution arm of the Italian group Mediaset, Mediaset Distribution has two new scripted series for buyers: Task Force 45 and Not My Son.

CANNES: Imagina International Sales, which distributes a variety of genres, is presenting Locked Up, a high-concept thriller that chronicles the lives of the inmates and officials at a maximum-security penitentiary center.

CANNES: Filmax International’s I Know Who You Are is one of the 12 series selected to be presented at the inaugural MIPDrama Screenings.

STOCKHOLM: MTG's Nordic streaming-video platform Viaplay is launching a brand-new service for its subscribers: electronic sell-through (EST).

LONDON: Mark Linsey has become the new director of BBC Studios, after having served as acting director of BBC Television since October 2015.

LONDON: Discovery Communications has inked a TV and multiplatform broadcast agreement with NOS in the Netherlands regarding the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games.

LONDON: UKTV's Dave has bolstered its entertainment slate with the commission of Dara Ó Briain's Go 8 Bit, based on the live Edinburgh show Go 8 Bit.