Former ViacomCBS executive Brianna Bennett has joined ABC Entertainment as senior VP of network drama.

ITV Studios, the production and sales arm of the UK commercial broadcaster, has added three new directors of production roles to oversee UK scripted, UK non-scripted and international production as director of production Sally Debonnaire prepares to retire.

ZDF Enterprises, the commercial arm of the German pubcaster, has acquired 49% of Studio Hamburg subsidiary Real Film.

Netflix has picked up a young adult dramady inspired by the popular To All the Boys I've Loved Before film franchise and book series by Jenny Han.

WarnerMedia-owned HBO Max has appointed Canal+ executive Vera Peltekian as VP and commissioning editor of original production in France.

London-based financer, producer and distributor 108 Media has optioned young-adult horror book A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts by Ying Chang Compestine for an animated anthology series.

All3Media-owned prodco Lion Television US has elevated longtime executives Allison Corn and Stan Hsue to co-presidents and promoted several other key executives.

Fox Entertainment-owned AVoD platform Tubi is moving into adult animation with its acquisition of The Freak Brothers from Lionsgate.

Today we hear from Sky Kids’ Lucy Murphy about new documentary COP26: In Your Hands, while Plimsoll Productions’ Tom Hugh-Jones tackles the contradiction of addressing climate change while flying production crews around the world.

UK funding body Screen Yorkshire has confirmed Sally Joynson will be retiring from the business after 16 years as its chief executive.

Discovery has signed an exclusive multi-year deal with chef Ina Garten that will expand beyond her Barefoot Contessa cooking show franchise for the Food Network.

UK production accelerator programme Indielab has opened applications for its first initiatives focusing on TV and games producers based in the English county of West Yorkshire.

Canal+ in France and HBO Europe in CEE are among the international platforms to have picked up a feature documentary about the storming of the US capitol.

Roku in the US has acquired exclusive rights to the forthcoming Canadian comedy Children Ruin Everything.

Reddit is dipping its toe into the original content space with a comedy competition series produced by Bunim/Murray Productions and Kreativ Inc.

France- and LA-based producer Gaumont and Armando Bó’s About Entertainment have signed a deal to develop series and feature films across multiple genres and languages.

UK pubcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a daytime show from Daisybeck Studios and Motion Content Group that goes behind the scenes of the retail reselling sector.

Four European buyers have purchased the animated preschool series DinoCity from global distributor About Premium Content Kids.

Netflix has dismissed an employee who leaked sensitive data following a backlash against the streamer’s handling of the controversy around US comedian Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer, the company has confirmed to C21.

The International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached a new three-year agreement over pay, rest periods, meal breaks and more, averting a strike that would have closed film sets across America.

Dutch comedian Flip van der Kuil and producer Maarten Swart of local prodco Kaap Holland have joined forces to start a production company.