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Advertising spend in the U.K. is projected to rise by 15.2 percent this year to reach £27 billion ($38 billion), recovering the £1.8 billion ($2.5 billion) lost last year amid the pandemic, according to the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report.

Netflix is opening an office in Sweden to establish a Nordic hub as part of its growing commitment to the production of original local content all over Europe.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards, with 15 nods for Small Axe and 10 for The Crown.

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has inked a two-cycle deal with Bundesliga International, covering nine markets, that runs until 2029.

TV France International is launching two new themed digital markets: ScreenHistory and Screen Feel Good.

SPI/FilmBox’s new ad-based digital service Filmstream has secured carriage on the Samsung TV Plus mobile app in the U.K.

UKTV has commissioned another season of Sandylands for the comedy channel Gold.

The U.K. government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has unveiled a new one-year pilot fund to boost international development and distribution opportunities for local companies across the film, TV, animation, documentary and interactive narrative games sectors.

From ORF-Enterprise's ORF UNIVERSUM strand, Made in Austria is among the programs that received strong interest from buyers during Digital MIPTV. 

ITV is looking to ramp up commissions of youth-skewing scripted and factual, with plans to premiere some content on-demand first on the ITV Hub.