Rupert Murdoch's Sky Italia has hit out over a draft law on wiretapping rules, in the latest round of its battle with Italian premier and rival Mediaset owner Silvio Berlusconi.

UK actress Helena Bonham Carter is to star in a new BBC television drama based on Toast, the memoir of food writer and chef Nigel Slater.

Eyeworks, the international TV prodco behind Test the Nation, has expanded into Switzerland.

Caroline Lang has been promoted to the post of senior VP and MD of Warner Bros International Television Distribution in France.

BBC director of children's Joe Godwin has said he would like additional investment planned for his department to be spent on serious factual shows, while pressure grows to increase this budget further.

As Toronto's INplay conference starts today, Jules Grant reports on how the kids' entertainment industry in Canada is reacting to the new Canada Media Fund.

Sony Pictures Television has promoted Kate Marsh to senior VP for broadcast and channel development within the company's networks division.

Stéphane Courbit's Banijay Entertainment has made a noisy entrance into the international scene, racking up acquisitions and bases in 10 countries. Exec VP of programming and distribution François de Brugada tells Jules Grant what's next.

SOCIAL MEDIA 2010: Spanish TV channel Veo7 has launched a show in which Twitter has a permanent presence and guests are dubbed 'Twiteros.' The net's general director Melchor Miralles talks to Jules Grant.

Spanish producer and distributor Imira Entertainment is expanding its live-action slate ahead of the LA Screenings next week, with two series picked up from Germany's ZDF Enterprises.