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Playboy TV has tapped leading European company Marc Dorcel to manage its television business in multiple overseas regions, effective May 1.

The deal, which includes linear channel programming, exclusive distribution and management of VOD content, will cover Europe (except UK, Spain and Portugal), Africa and the Middle East.

The programming offered under the deal will include the best of Playboy TV's content library, as well as select Marc Dorcel titles.

We are happy to foster the emblematic brand of Playboy TV in Europe, Marc Dorcel CEO Gregory Dorcel commented. We will use all our local expertise to fulfill one goal: make Playboy TV Europe as attractive as possible for the European viewers. We share many of the same universal values and we are happy to bring this to life through content to the widest audience by leveraging Playboy TV's brand power with our European know-how.

Ofcom's latest TV Broadcasting Licence Updates reveals that Playboy TV is no longer licensed for TV and satellite broadcast in the UK. Presumably this means that the service has ended on other UK TV distribution services too.

The softcore service ended for the UK on 1st December 2017, but is continuing for other countries.

And perhaps the strangest aspect to the story is that no one seems to have noticed.

Marc Dorcel, a European leader in adult TV, has today revealed brand new visual identities for its TV channels Dorcel TV and Dorcel XXX.

We have created simple yet stylish and sensual identities, fully in line with our group image, stated Gregory Dorcel, Marc Dorcel CEO. Our TV channels' offer is now well established all over Europe, and as we are always trying to improve the quality of our broadcasts.

Launched in 2006 to answer to a growing demand from viewers to see quality adult content, Dorcel channels today reach nearly three billion paying subscribers. Dorcel TV and Dorcel XXX are part of this specific category and are now available from more than 150 operators in more than 50 countries all over the world in English, French, Spanish, Polish and more.

Designed like a true theme channel and dedicated to couples, Dorcel TV every day presents naughty reports, hot programs and a selection of the greatest international studios' best movies. With this new graphic design, Dorcel TV has its logo animated in 3D, which boosts the channel's elegant and sexy presence. This new look comes along with new weekly rendezvous that will spice up the viewers' nights.

Dorcel XXX, Marc Dorcel's 100% action, 100% hard, 100% sex TV channel, was launched in 2012 with hotter programming, making it Dorcel TV's essential complement. The channel's new identity is based on this XXX line with burning neons, as blazing as its programs that offer non-stop sex to its audience.