Continuing its strand of original commissions, digital network ITV2 is lining up further instalments of its Celebrities Exposed strand, with seven new one-off hours from five UK producers.

Following the recent departures of Steve Hewlett, Louise Pedersen and Rupert Dilnott-Cooper, there has been yet more Carlton executive fall-out at ITV plc.

US-backed Central European Media Enterprises has made a final settlement with the Dutch tax authorities regarding tax owed on its international arbitration award between its Dutch subsidiary and the Czech Republic.

UK distributor Channel 4 International has clinched a raft of international licence deals, including the sale of several packages of programming to networks in Australia and France.

Liberty Media International, a subsidiary of John Malone's Denver-based Liberty Media Corporation, is increasing its presence in Japanese cable with an $82million buy-in.

Top Up TV, the new pay-TV service expected to launch in March on UK digital terrestrial service Freeview, has confirmed the appointment of Matthew Seaman, former managing director of the DTT platform.

UK producer-distributor All3Media, formerly Chrysalis TV Group, is planning to expand its operations in Europe and the US with backing from UK financier Bridgepoint Capital.

UK kids' specialist Entertainment Rights is still on the acquisition trail, despite failing to snap up rival Brit intellectual property business Chorion, owner of Noddy and the Agatha Christie crime novels.

The UK's Institute of Practitioners in Advertising has accused the BBC of being too commercial, straying beyond the boundary's of public service broadcasting and has called for BBC output to be "rigorously policed."

ITVi, the interactive division of the UK's ITV network, will further build on its interactive strategy this month with the launch of two new programmes featuring a range of interactive capabilities.