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The BBC has appointed Jon Petrie, a Channel 4 alum, as director of comedy.

Dramatist and playwright Jack Thorne has been tapped to deliver the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, the flagship session of this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival, sponsored by YouTube and Screen Scotland.

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has secured the exclusive media rights to show the Premier League live on its Viaplay streaming service in the Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 2022 to 2028.

BBC Studios is on track to meet its five-year target of £1.2 billion in returns to the BBC by 2021/22, despite the challenges of the last year amid the pandemic.

The Royal Television Society (RTS) has announced that its biennial Cambridge Convention will go ahead in person for 2021, as well as the event's first confirmed speakers.

Little Dot Studios has hired Ed Turner for the newly created role of director of media.

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is set to launch its Viaplay streaming service in Poland on August 3.

UKTV has appointed Cherie Cunningham as the new channel director for its comedy entertainment channel Dave.

Serge Toubiana and Hervé Michel have been elected as president and VP of UniFrance.

The Dori Media Group and Yoav Gross Productions comedy format Little Mom has been commissioned by Channel 4 in the U.K.