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VIENNA: The Austrian VOD service Flimmit has licensed hundreds of hours of new programming, inking deals with, among others, Studio Hamburg.

LONDON: Channel 5 has rebranded its VOD service Demand 5 as My5, which will also feature an expanded range of content.

STOCKHOLM: Canal Digital and Discovery have reached new distribution terms, bringing to an end a dispute that caused Discovery Channel, Eurosport and TV Norge, among other services, to go dark in the Nordic region.

BUDAPEST: HBO is planning to relaunch its channels in Central and Eastern Europe, rebranding HBO Comedy as HBO3.

MUNICH: Bavaria Fernsehproduktion is expanding to include new areas of TV development and production in the international arena, tapping Moritz Polter to lead the charge.

OSLO: Canal Digital and Turner have agreed to new terms of a distribution partnership that covers all Nordic countries.

NEW YORK/PARIS: AMC Networks International - UK has secured a carriage deal with CanalSat that sees Sundance Channel Global launching on France's largest pay-TV operator.

LONDON: Shine TV has promoted two in-house executive producers to senior roles, bolstering its popular factual and features teams.

LONDON: Maria Kyriacou has been elevated to the newly created post of president of international at ITV Studios.

BERLIN: The 3x90-minute event movie Ku’damm 56, a top highlight for ZDF Enterprises at Berlinale, tells a story of young women in the 1950s and their rebelliousness against the view of a woman’s role in post-war society.