Fremantle Expands Group COO Andrea Scrosati’s Role to CEO for Continental Europe

Manchester City duo Ederson and Gabriel Jesus have flown straight from Brazil to Belgium in order to be ready for the Champions League fixture at Club Brugge on Tuesday.

Manori Ravindran International EditorNENT Group CEO Anders Jensen, the recipient of this year’s Variety Vanguard Award, says the Scandinavian company plans to emulate a BritBox-style model for Nordic Noir when it launches in the U.S. this December.Speaking with Variety in Cannes during the Vanguard keynote on Monday, Jensen discussed NENT Group-backed streaming service Viaplay’s ambitious expansion strategy, which plans to reach 16 markets by the end of 2023.

Sigrid has performed her latest single, ‘Burning Bridges’, with backing from Germany’s RTO Ehrenfeld on ZDF Magazin Royale.The Norwegian pop star, who is readying the release of her second album, enlisted the band to perform the song live on the German talk show, which is hosted by Jan Böhmermann.Although the recording of the single is already packed with bold guitars, beats and strings, RTO Ehrenfeld helped bring the song further to life on the show broadcast last week.Watch Sigrid and RTO

Former The Real Housewives of Cheshire star Magali Gorre has lifted the lid on her time on the hit reality TV show.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn a massive sales roll-out, Fremantle has sold “Arctic Drift: A Year in the Ice,” about the biggest ever Arctic climate research expedition, in a total 170 territories globally.The array of buyers take in Amazon Prime Video for Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Channel 4 in the U.K., PBS science series Nova in the U.S., and France Télévisions.“Arctic Drift” follows a year of the unprecedented MOSAiC expedition, led by Germany’s Alfred Wegener

BERLIN -- A leading Jewish group in Germany said Tuesday it was shocked by a German-Israeli singer's report of being turned away from a hotel in the eastern German city of Leipzig because he was wearing a Star of David pendant.Singer Gil Ofarim, who lives in Germany, shared a video on Instagram Tuesday showing him in front of the Westin hotel in Leipzig and saying a hotel employee asked him to put away his necklace in order to check into the hotel.The head of the Central Council of Jews in

Muse and The Strokes will headline Berlin’s inaugural Tempelhof Sounds festival in 2022 – check out the line-up so far below.The event takes place at the German capital’s disused Tempelhof Airport – which ceased operating back in 2008 – between June 10 and June 12 next year. Tickets are available here from €79 (£67.25).Joining the aforementioned bill-toppers are the likes of Wolf Alice, Alt-J, Interpol, London Grammar, IDLES, Royal Blood, Mac DeMarco, Parcels and Fontaines DC.

Jamie Lang HBO Max has revealed that it will be launching in seven additional countries in 2022: Turkey, Greece, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands.

The rebel prince. Prince Andrew has a history of shocking the royal family and the public with his choices — including his decision to marry Sarah Ferguson after dating less than one year.

Netflix has continued its expansion into gaming, rolling out its brand-new mobile gaming service across Italy and Spain.Last month, Netflix began launching its new gaming service as it allowed Polish users to download two mobile games via its app – Stranger Things 3 and Stranger Things 1984.Based on the popular TV series, the games were both paid releases on the Android and Apple app stores but were made available for free to Netflix users.

Rolo Tomassi have announced details of their UK and European tour for 2022.The five-piece, who released their last album ‘Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It’ in 2018, returned last month with the single ‘Cloaked’.Rolo Tomassi will make their live comeback with a hometown show in Brighton on November 12, with the band also set to perform at Netherlands’ Complexity Fest and 2000trees Festival in 2022.The band have this morning (September 29) announced a full set of UK and European tour dates for

The Polish voivodeships (provinces) of Podkarpackie, Lubelskie  and Malopolskie voted on September 27 to repeal their self-designated labels as “LGBT-free zones” after the  European Commission threatened to pull €126 million in funding.  The funds were earmarked to the regions as part of the European Union’s REACT-EU program.

Global TV major Fremantle has promoted Andrea Scrosati to the role of CEO Continental Europe, giving him additional responsibility for Fremantle’s businesses in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Nordics, and Poland.

EXCLUSIVE: An English adaptation of the hit Belgian series Team Chocolate will be produced by STXtelevision and Reel One Entertainment after acquiring the rights from Wild Bunch TV.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor“Shang-Chi and the Legend of The Ten Rings” from Marvel Studios will hit Disney Plus on Nov. 12 — along with a slew of other new content — as part of a celebration of the two-year anniversary of the streamer’s launch.The first Disney Plus Day marks the date the streaming service first bowed in 2019 in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands.Additional content set to debut Nov.