NEW YORK, March 17: In this video interview, Discovery Communications’ president and CEO, David Zaslav, reflects on what has made the company’s brands so strong over the last 25 years and what's still ahead.

LONDON, March 17: The Royal Television Society (RTS) has announced the winners for the Programme Awards, which celebrate all genres of programming.

PARIS/COPENHAGEN, March 17: Banijay Entertainment Group has created a new distribution division, Banijay International, incorporating Nordisk Film TV World, which it acquired last October.

LOS ANGELES, March 17: Comcast International Media Group (CIMG) has signed a number of channel deals for E! International Network, with new launches in France, the Netherlands and Macedonia.

LONDON, March 17: UKTV has picked up the U.S. version of Who Do You Think You Are? from Outright Distribution for its family entertainment channel Watch.

LONDON, March 17: The high-definition version of Five is to start broadcasting to more than 2 million Sky+HD homes this July.

LONDON, March 17: On Demand Group has clinched a deal to bring a slate of long-form content from Disney—including episodes of Lost and Desperate Housewives—to 3 U.K.'s mobile SVOD service.

LONDON, March 17: Weird or What?, produced by Cineflix Productions and distributed outside the U.S. by Cineflix International, will receive its MIPTV launch with the iconic William Shatner on hand to present the new show.

LONDON, March 17: Steve Copestake, the former senior VP of international marketing at Disney-ABC-ESPN Television, has been named head of global marketing for Endemol.

MUNICH, March 17: Tandem Communications and Salisbury Cathedral have undertaken an ongoing relationship based on the commonalities regarding The Pillars of the Earth.

LONDON, March 16: The Cineflix cooking series Family Food Fight with Flora, starring chefs Jean Christophe Novelli and Matt Tebbutt, has been commissioned by Five for a launch in May.

LONDON, March 16: RDF Media's The Foundation has announced the recommission of Basil and Barney's Swap Shop for a third season of 26 hour-long episodes for CBBC.

PARIS, March 16: Moonscoop has landed presales for the second season of Dive Olly Dive!, with, among others, France 5 and SVT of Sweden.

PARIS, March 16: Toei Animation has named Edebé Audiovisual Licensing as its broker to handle licensing in Spain for the TV series Dr. Slump–Arale.

ROME, March 15: A new report from ITMedia Consulting predicts that online video revenues in Western Europe will reach 2.7 billion euros in 2013.

LONDON, March 15: Virgin Media has inked a deal with Universal Networks International to make the SCI FI channel available in high definition, ahead of the April 13 rebrand to Syfy HD.

LONDON, March 15: The Foundation, part of the RDF Media group, has been commissioned to produce a fourth and fifth season of the children's game show Escape from Scorpion Island for CBBC in the U.K. and ABC TV in Australia.

CULVER CITY, March 15: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has reworked its Animax channel to focus more broadly on youth culture, along with extending its programming to alternate platforms.

LONDON, March 15: Victoria Ashbourne has been tapped to serve as the senior VP of creative development for international production at Sony Pictures Television (SPT).

LONDON, March 12: Virgin Media is adding ITV1 HD to its channel lineup, with upcoming highlights that include the 2010 World Cup airing in full high definition.

LOS ANGELES, March 12: E! International Network delivered its most-watched red carpet season ever, with coverage of the Golden Globes, Grammys, BAFTAs, SAG Awards and Academy Awards.

LONDON, March 12: Media Entertainment Group (MEG) has secured two new distribution deals for its recently launched format division.

LUXEMBOURG, March 11: Cost-cutting and strong results at FremantleMedia helped the RTL Group mitigate the tough ad climate in 2009, with net profit stable at 298 million euros, on revenues that were down 6.3 percent to 5.4 billion euros.

NEW YORK, March 11: In this video interview, Tobi de Graaff, the director of global television distribution at ITV Studios Global Entertainment, discusses the strengths of the company's portfolio and his strategic priorities for 2010.

LONDON, March 11: The U.S. version of Wall to Wall's original format Who Do You Think You Are?, which premiered on NBC on March 5, has been sold by Outright Distribution into eight territories.

LONDON, March 11: ITV Studios Global Entertainment has taken on the distribution rights for the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movie portfolio.

MADRID/BURBANK, March 10: Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a deal with laSexta that gives the Spanish broadcaster free-TV rights to a range of first-run theatrical motion pictures and previously released feature films as well as a host of TV titles.

SILVER SPRING, March 10: The newly created role of international head of content for Discovery Communications is to be filled by Luis Silberwasser, who currently serves as senior VP of the content group for Discovery Networks Latin America/U.S. Hispanic and general manager of U.S. Hispanic Networks.

LONDON, March 10: Katie Taylor, currently the executive editor of comedy entertainment at BBC Productions, has been tapped as the company's new head of entertainment and events.

HILVERSUM, March 10: In continuing its global expansion efforts, John de Mol's Talpa Media has set up a co-owned joint venture with Portuguese TV producer CBV.