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LONDON/PARIS: Eurosport has made four key appointments within its senior executive team, with Arnaud Simon, previously managing director of Eurosport France and director of TV content, being promoted to senior VP of content and production for the Eurosport Group. Simon is a Eurosport veteran, having joined more than 20 years …

LONDON: Endemol Shine International has entered into a scripted development and first‐look distribution deal with Shoebox TV, the newly formed television arm of Shoebox Films. The film production company belonging to the producers Paul Webster (Pan, Atonement, Eastern Promises), Guy Heeley (Locke, London Spy), and the director Joe Wright (Pan, …

LONDON: Ben Caudell, currently the head of comedy at Objective Productions, has been appointed Channel 4's new head of entertainment. The announcement follows on news that the entertainment team would report to Liam Humphreys as part of a combined factual entertainment team. Caudell is currently responsible for executive producing Objective’s …

LONDON: Lynn Sutcliffe and Hugh Rycroft have teamed up to establish Mighty Productions, with BBC Worldwide backing the launch. BBC Worldwide has acquired a 25 percent stake in the new venture. As part of the deal, it also gains the global distribution rights to all programs produced by Mighty during …

LONDON: BBC Three has commissioned a third season of its hit comedy Cuckoo, while also ordering the new series Flat TV. Cuckoo’s latest run will be written by creators Robin French and Kieron Quirke, produced by Emma Lawson, and executive produced by Dan Hine and Ash Atalla for Roughcut TV …

BUDAPEST/WARSAW: The online VOD service FilmBox Live has become available to subscribers of Invitel, a telecom operator in Hungary. Invitel customers now have access to more than 1,000 films as well as the live Hungarian movie channels FilmBox, FilmBox Family and FilmBox HD. The online service also features a half …

LONDON: UKTV is crediting its focus on investment in exclusive and original programming as a key driver of its record ratings, revenue and profit in 2014. UKTV invested £123 million ($191 million) in content last year. Strong advertising revenues, derived from a strong SOCI (share of commercial impacts) performance, meant …

LONDON: Endemol Shine UK has made a slew of new appointments for its multi-channel network ChannelFlip, among them naming executive producer Jules Fuller the digital hub’s new creative director. Fuller, who first joined Endemol Shine Group’s Initial in 2004, will take creative leadership across all ChannelFlip’s digital programming. The exec …

LONDON: The U.K.’s Channel 5 has signed a three-year contract with Sunset+Vine for a Football League highlights show, due out this August. The 46×90-minute series will air Saturdays throughout the season. It will feature footage, including every single goal, from matches in all three divisions of the Sky Bet Football …

STOCKHOLM: Among the changes within the management team at Modern Times Group (MTG) is the appointment of Anders Jensen, currently the executive VP of the group's Scandinavian free-TV and radio operations, as CEO of MTG Sweden. Kim Poder has been named CEO of MTG Denmark and Trygve Rønningen as CEO …