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BBC Studios Productions names Ward MD for Factual

Kate Ward has been appointed to the role of MD Factual at BBC Studios Productions. Reporting to Ralph Lee, CEO BBC Studios Productions, she will oversee all BBC Studios’ Factual production units and partnerships, taking responsibility for the overall strategy, creative health, pipeline, and production capability across the genre. Ward will join from VICE Media […]

September 22, 2022

WBD UK commissions new factual shows

Warner Bros Discovery UK has commissioned three new linear series; Secret Life of the Auction House (w/t), Vintage Brokers (w/t) and Supercar Airport (w/t), and has also confirmed the return of Kings Of The Wood, MotorPickers, Fifth Gear Recharged and Wheeler Dealers on linear channels and discovery+ starting next year. Secret Life of the Auction […]

September 22, 2022

Sky Italia increases investment in Italian content

Sky Italia is investing €1.2 billion per year for content and TV rights in Italy, revealed CEO Andrea Duilio speaking to local daily Il Sole 24 Ore. According to Duilio, the pay-TV broadcaster allocated €260 million in 2021 alone, which is 30 per cent more than three years ago. Despite the continued multiplication of OTT […]

September 21, 2022From Branislav Pekic in Rome

LADstudios expands into podcast, vodcast content

LADstudios, the entertainment division of LADbible Group, has announced its expansion into podcast and vodcast production with the launch of two new digital entertainment show brands. Following partnerships with Audioboom and Spotify, LADstudios will launch Extraordinary Lives: The Minutes With Podcast and SPORTbible Stories across multiple podcast platforms and as vodcast episodes. Extraordinary Lives; The […]

September 21, 2022

London Film Studios opens its door

London Film Studios (LFS), a new studio complex, situated on the banks of the River Lee Navigation in Enfield, North London, has opened its doors with a busy schedule of productions already confirmed. The brainchild of Danny Hayward, who co-founded SHL Film & TV Lighting in 2008, LFS boasts five, fully equipped stages with further […]

September 21, 2022

Prime Video orders Blade Runner series

Amazon has announced that a Blade Runner TV series is in development for its Prime Video streaming service. Ridley Scott, director of the celebrated 1982 Blade Runner movie will return to the sci-fi franchise as executive producer of the series, set to be titled Blade Runner 2099 on account of being set 50 years after […]

September 19, 2022By Nik Roseveare

Report: ‘story centric’ right approach for news

The DPP, the media industry’s business network, has released the third and final report in the Tomorrow’s News series – Making The News. More than any other content type, news is experiencing disruption in formats and outputs. In this final report, 34 contributors were brought together to examine the technology and workflow changes necessary to […]

September 13, 2022

Gravity Media unveils White City production centre

Gravity Media, a provider of complex live production and media services, has continued its expansion with the launch of their second London Production Centre – in the heart of the media campus in White City, launching later this year. Gravity Media will open a new state of the art, future focused Production Centre which will […]

September 12, 2022

Report: Streamers 16% of EU original content investment

Global streaming services’ share of investments in European original content grew to 16 per cent in 2021, according to a report from the European Audiovisual Observatory. Although Netflix accounted for over half (56 per cent), it was down from 92 per cent two years earlier as other streamers, in particular Prime Video, increased their share. […]

September 8, 2022

Pact: UK TV production revenues bounce back

Pact’s annual TV Production Census has revealed that UK revenues have nearly returned to pre-Covid levels, growing by 13 per cent in 2021 to £3.25 billion (€3.77bn), just £79 million below pre-Covid revenues in 2019. Despite the pandemic still having an impact on life in 2021, innovations by the sector, as well as the Government’s […]

September 7, 2022