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PREMIUM: Jay Stuart takes a look at the efforts being made by Austria, Belgium and Croatia to lure international TV drama co-productions. “Benefits and incentives are tremendously important for producers,” says Arie Bohrer, the president of the European Film Commission Network, an association of national and regional film commissions representing …

LONDON: UKTV has implemented a new editorial structure, under which Steve North, the general manager of Dave and Gold, gets a broader role, as does Adrian Wills, who heads up Drama and Yesterday. North adds Watch to his portfolio, while Wills' remit now includes Alibi. Emma Boston, the director of …

LONDON: ITV and the BBC have secured the shared exclusive free-to-air broadcast rights in the U.K. for the World Cup tournaments in 2018 and 2022 across TV, radio and online. The 2018 finals will be the 14th consecutive FIFA World Cup that ITV and BBC broadcast together. Niall Sloane, ITV's …

PREMIUM: At the L.A. Screenings this year, more procedural dramas were on view than in past years, which satisfied Jakob Mejlhede, the senior VP of acquisitions and programming at Modern Times Group (MTG) and the chief content officer of MTGx. “I was quite satisfied with the one-hours,” he commented. “There …

LONDON: Sky Sports is to launch the first-ever TV channel dedicated exclusively to European football, with Sky Sports 5. Sky Sports customers will be able to receive the new channel as part of their sports package, and as an added bonus can also get two years free Sky Broadband Unlimited. …

LOS ANGELES: CBS Studios International (CBSSI) and France's M6 have re-upped their volume agreement, building on a programming partnership that began in 2003. The relationship between CBSSI and M6 began with the acquisition of NCIS by the French net. Other CBS series that have performed well for the channel include …

LONDON: Shine International has secured the distribution rights for ITV's Code of a Killer and Channel 5's Rome: The World's First Superpower. Produced by World Productions, Code of a Killer is a two-part drama that tells the true story of Alec Jeffrey's discovery of DNA fingerprinting in the 1980s. It …

PREMIUM: Jay Stuart talks to Tandem’s Rola Bauer and Starz’s Carmi Zlotnik about filming on-location in Europe, wrapping up our series on the region’s production incentives. The globalization of television production has been a steadily growing phenomenon. The genie is out of the bottle. Hollywood is no longer a place …

LONDON: European pay-TV revenues are expected to reach $40.35 billion in 2014, up just 0.6 percent on 2013, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. Satellite TV is forecast to account for 45.6 percent of the pay-TV revenues in 2014. Though due to greater competition and the growth …

LONDON: Karoline Spodsberg, who has been the managing director of Banijay International for five years, is taking on the newly created post of Nordic Group COO at Nordisk Film TV, a Banijay Group company. Spodsberg will be reporting to CEO Jacob Houlind. She is tasked with planning, implementing and optimizing …