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LONDON: Sky is planning to invest £3 million ($4.8 million) for production companies and arts organizations to team up on innovative TV projects. The Sky Arts Amplify initiative is designed to foster integrated partnerships between creative institutions and TV production companies. The plan is to make £1 million ($1.6 million) …

MUNICH: In the third quarter, ProSiebenSat.1 increased its revenues by 10.5 percent to 637.5 million euros ($790 million), with TV advertising and digital contributing to this growth. Recurring EBITDA increased by 7.9 percent to 162.9 million euros ($202 million) compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Underlying net …

LONDON: David Morrissey (The Walking Dead, The Driver) has aligned with producers Jolyon Symonds (Complicit, The Driver) and James Gay-Rees (Exit Through the Gift Shop, Senna) and director Asif Kapadia (Senna, The Warrior) to launch a new independent production company, On The Corner.  The outfit will develop scripted and non-scripted …

WARSAW: The Polish broadcaster Telewizja Puls has signed a free-TV content deal with NBCUniversal (NBCU) International Television Distribution for a range of series and films to air on its TV Puls and PULS2 channels. The pact includes a range of library titles and current series, along with more than 100 movies …

LONDON: The British comedy Detectorists, which just finished its first run on BBC Four, has been renewed for a second season. The show follows the relationship between two friends who share a passion for metal detecting and dream of finding a priceless Saxon hoard that will cement their place in …

DALLAS: The adoption of PC-to-TV connections in Europe has exceeded that of the U.S. market, according to Parks Associates. The New European Entertainment and Internet of Things research finds that among broadband households, 54 percent in Spain have connected a PC to the TV. In the U.K. and Germany, it's …

LONDON: Tim Mutimer, currently the head of non-scripted at Zodiak Rights, has been elevated to CEO, following the resignation of Steve Macallister. Macallister will remain at Zodiak Rights until the end of the year. Mutimer will take up the position with immediate effect and report to Zodiak Media CEO Marc-Antoine …

LONDON: Antenna Group has entered into a strategic pan-European media alliance with companies such as ProSiebenSat.1 and Modern Times Group (MTG) aimed at accelerating the growth of digital businesses. The alliance features seven leading media groups in Europe, including Turkey's Dogan TV, France's TF1 and Poland's TVN Group. The members …

LUXEMBOURG: RTL Group saw its net profit for the first nine months of the year fall by 42.8 percent to 306 million euros ($380.6 million), impacted by a new advertising tax in Hungary, the difficult economic situation in France and challenges at its FremantleMedia production arm. Revenue was down 1.6 …

LONDON: Following its successful acquisition of Sky Italia and a majority interest in Sky Deutschland, BSkyB will now simply be known as Sky, touting itself as "Europe's leading entertainment company." The enlarged operations will serve 20 million customers across five countries: Italy, Germany, Austria, the U.K. and Ireland. Its combined …