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LONDON: BBC Three has ordered a second season of Uncle, a dark comedy series starring Nick Helm and Elliot Speller-Gillot. Uncle is about an unemployed musician who begins to bond with his 12-year-old nephew after his sister asks him to babysit on the day he was planning to commit suicide. …

PARIS: Issuing its 2013 results, where revenues were down 5.7 percent, France's market leading broadcaster, TF1, has warned that ad revenues could yet again contract this year, "in a gloomy economic climate, with no signs of recovery and visibility still poor." For the full year, revenues dropped to 2.5 billion …

ISTANBUL: Digiturk has scored the exclusive Turkish broadcast rights for the 86th Academy Awards, which will air live on March 2 on a brand-new Oscars-dedicated channel. The event will air on Moviemax Oscars HD, the first Oscars-dedicated channel in Turkey, featuring a lineup of 105 Oscar-nominated movies for two weeks. …

LONDON: FremantleMedia International has extended its relationship with the indie comedy and drama producer Roughcut Television for another two years. FremantleMedia International will continue to co-develop with Roughcut, which was founded in 2007 by Ash Atalla, until at least the end of 2015. The company has the rights to distribute …

LONDON: Following Janice Hadlow's move to become the controller of special projects and seasons at the BBC, Adam Barker has been tapped as acting controller for BBC Two and BBC Four. Barker is currently editorial executive for BBC Two and Four. He takes up the new acting controller post as …

LONDON: Content Television and Digital has struck up a landmark partnership with Great Point Media, which was founded by the producers Robert Halmi, Jr. and Jim Reeve. Content will have the international distribution rights for Great Point Media's TV output for two years. It also gains the ability to collaborate …

NEW YORK: From March 4 to 6, more than 1,000 delegates are expected to gather for the fourth edition of DISCOP Istanbul. The attendees will be representing 500-plus new and established, regional and global companies that are driving the content business and digital changes with and across the Middle East, …

TEL AVIV: Applicaster has tapped Peter Cassidy, formerly the head of interactive at FremantleMedia UK, as its VP of Europe. Cassidy will be the principal officer to lead Applicaster's activities in Europe. He formerly was responsible for all digital extensions around FremantleMedia's shows in the U.K., including second-screen apps, social …

LUXEMBOURG: Amazon is combining the Amazon Prime and LOVEFiLM Instant subscription services in the U.K. to create the merged offering of Prime Instant Video, which will be available from February 26. On its own, Amazon Prime offers members unlimited one-day delivery on more than 7 million items and access to …

LONDON: John Malone's Discovery Communications is reportedly in discussions with BSkyB to make a joint bid for Channel 5, which is being sold by Richard Desmond. The Financial Times reported that the talks between Discovery and BSkyB have focused on BSkyB taking over Channel 5's advertising sales operation. Bids for …