Apple TV+ and Oprah Winfrey have announced The Oprah Conversation, a new series that will continue to explore impactful and relevant topics with fascinating thought leaders from all over the world. The Oprah Conversation will debut on Apple TV+ on July 30th. Filmed remotely and incorporating audience engagement, WInfrey will lead timely and intimate discussions […]
BBC Studios and ITV have revealed plans to roll out their joint venture SVoD service BritBox globally, which could see the streaming platform expanding to up to 25 countries worldwide. Building upon the success of the service in the US and Canada, where it recently hit one million subscribers, as well as the UK, where […]
Tenet, the next big budget movie from Hollywood director Christopher Nolan, has seen its release date pushed back multiple times as the Coronavirus continues to keep many cinemas shut around the globe – most notably in the lucrative US market where the pandemic continues to show little signs of slowing down. Consequently, the Warner Bros […]
UK communications infrastructure and media services company Arqiva has created a cloud-based metadata management system for Digital UK, the organisation that leads the development of the UK’s biggest TV platform, Freeview. This system supports the migration of the Freeview Play service information platform to a highly-scalable public cloud infrastructure. The solution aggregates, manages and delivers […]
Netflix subscribers can soon a cast of Singapore screen icons like Phua Chu Kang and Liang Po Po, thanks to a distribution deal that will see over 50 Mediacorp titles being offered to the streaming giant’s markets in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. Available from August 1st to coincide with Singapore’s birthday month, a multilingual medley […]
HBO Max, AT&T’s SVoD platform, pulled in 4.1 million subscribers in its first month, following its May 27th launch in the US. For comparison, Disney+ attracted 10 million subscribers in just one day upon its launch – but HBO Max would seem to be targeting a different market with its $14.99 per month subscription cost […]
Taiwanese multiple-system operator Taiwan Optical Platform (TOP) has expanded its entertainment offering by adding WarnerMedia’s regional streaming service HBO GO. Available to all TOP pay-TV subscribers for an additional NT$99 per (€2.90) month, HBO GO is the SVoD home of some of the most iconic shows and movies ever made. Clement Schwebig, Managing Director of […]
Amazon Studios has ordered the new series Paper Girls, from Legendary Television in association with Plan B, based on the best-selling graphic novel series by comic book visionary and television writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Cliff Chiang. Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in […]
Senior executives at Sky Studios, the production arm of the Comcast-owned broadcaster, have refuted suggestions that Sky is at a disadvantage compared with recent SVoD and D2C market entrants such as Apple and Disney in attracting exclusive on-and off-screen talent, and instead can benefit from its status as a platform and content provider to work […]
Pre-Covid 19, competition within the OTT market had already been intensifying, with the launch of a plethora of new platforms offering more choice than ever before. During lockdown, it’s no surprise either that consumers’ appetite for content has been stimulated but not satiated: time spent in video streaming apps globally during the peak week of […]