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BBC Studios Americas has appointed Tara Maitra as chief commercial officer and Jennifer Ball as senior VP of marketing.

HBO Max has given a series order to And Just Like That..., a new chapter of the HBO series Sex and the City that will see Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis reprising their roles.

CBS Network has ordered a pilot script of the sitcom The Games, produced by New Media Vision.

ViacomCBS has struck a new distribution agreement that adds more content from its portfolio of news, entertainment and sports networks to Hulu’s live TV subscription streaming service.

Some 40 percent of U.S. broadband homes used a free trial of at least one OTT service amid the pandemic, per Parks Associates, with almost 70 percent of those signing up for a subscription.

BBC Studios is set to launch a new, ad-free subscription streaming channel, BBC Select, in early 2021 on Amazon Prime Video Channels and the Apple TV app.

The NPD Group’s new TV Switching Study reports that the average U.S. streaming consumer is now using seven services to access content, up from five in April 2020.

New data from Parks Associates indicates that 25 percent of U.S. broadband homes prefer using an OTT service to watch new films, while 24 percent would rather see them in movie theaters first.

Showtime has ordered the half-hour comedy series The Curse, starring Oscar winner Emma Stone (La La Land, The Favourite, Birdman), who will also serve as an executive producer on the project under her Fruit Tree banner.

FX has renewed It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for four additional seasons, through season 18.