BBC Studios has appointed the former controller of comedy and entertainment at commercial rival ITV as the new showrunner of its Comic Relief charity night.

NEWS BRIEF: Channel 4 in the UK has greenlit a 60-episode second season of its quizshow The £100k Drop for its daytime schedule from Endemol Shine-owned Remarkable Television.

Arts-focused US cablenet Ovation has become the new home of long-running celebrity interview series Inside The Actors Studio.

A+E Networks in the UK and French factual channel RMC Decouverte have greenlit a second season of motoring series Flipping Bangers.

The former CEO of All3Media America has resurfaced as president of Propagate Content, the US studio set up three years ago by Ben Silverman and Howard T Owens with backing from A+E Networks.

Commercially funded UK pubcaster Channel 4 has greenlit a five-part unscripted format that puts people suffering from dementia in charge of a restaurant.

National Geographic Channel has picked up a youth-skewing wildlife series from UK distributor Scorpion TV for its feeds in the Middle East and North Africa.

Anglo-Chinese producer and distributor IPCN is coproducing a street art series for its newly launched Chinese digital network Channel R with UK indie Zig Zag Productions.

UK factual indie Icon Films has hired an executive from Tinopolis-owned Mentorn Media as its new head of development.

NEWS BRIEF: UK commercial broadcaster ITV has confirmed that its crime series Unforgotten will return for a six-part fourth season next year.