RTS: Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, has restated the case for the UK pubcaster’s licence fee, defended its policy on impartiality and passed comment on the number of senior journalists and talent leaving the corporation.

RTS: Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon today said the UK pubcaster is facing a wait and see game with regards to the government’s controversial privatisation plans, following a change of culture secretary and economic strife in the country.

RTS: Gerhard Zeiler, president of international at Warner Bros Discovery, today said his company is committed to producing local content in individual markets despite recent cuts, and also revealed it wants to launch a new streamer in the UK.

Mediaset-owned Italian network Canale 5 has commissioned a four-part drama from Endemol Shine Italy.

French animation studio La Chouette Compagnie has appointed former Studio Hari exec Adeline Tormo as its new head of sales.

Paramount in Germany and both ABC and Foxtel in Australia have picked up a harrowing documentary about an Irish children’s home where nearly 800 babies disappeared.

AMC Networks-backed Shorts International is continuing the roll-out of its short film FAST channel Shorts in the US with a launch on free streaming platform Plex.

Red Arrow Studios International has revealed its slate of reality, social experiments and factual entertainment shows ahead of Mipcom in Cannes next month, including Kinetic Content’s relationship format Love for the Ages and Sky’s factual entertainment show Hold The Front Page.

French commercial broadcaster TF1 is to appoint former Canal+ exec Rodolphe Belmer as its new CEO.

Dutch prodco IDTV, creator of format The Traitors, has partnered with All3Media’s Objective Media Group for US and UK versions of its new psychological social experiment The Unknown.