StarzPlay, the SVoD service, has announced a partnership with production company Fremantle. The agreement includes Fremantle’s Euston Films bold crime series Baghdad Central, written and created by the BAFTA-nominated writer Stephen Butchard and based on the novel by Elliott Colla. The deal also features the epic drama The Luminaries, starring Eva Green and Eve Hewson, […]
The Irishman, the Martin Scorsese mob-movie funded by Netflix to the tune of $140 million, failed to take home a single award at the Oscars Ceremony on February 9th. The Irishman was primed to be one of the big winners at the 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles, having picked up 10 nominations – including […]
The build-up of unprecedented pent up consumer demand has seen Disney+ hit an impressive 28.6 million paid subscribers worldwide in under 12 weeks since launching in just six countries. However, such rapid early uptake will pose challenges moving forwards
ViacomCBS is reported to be planning on launching a combination of its streaming offerings into a new premium service with advertising. CNBC says the new service is likely to be built around the SVoD CBS All Access and will also add Viacom brands Pluto TV, Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures, although this […]
StarzPlay, the Starz platform’s international streaming service, has entered a theatrical output deal with entertainment studio Lionsgate for split first pay streaming rights in the UK to Lionsgate’s recently released and upcoming feature films. Under the multi-year agreement, StarzPlay subscribers in the UK will be able to access Lionsgate first-run movies including the blockbuster original […]
Pluto TV, a ViacomCBS company and global AVoD service, has announced a multi-year global pact bringing Pluto TV’s platform of over 250 live, linear, thematically-curated and branded partner channels onto Hisense’s new Vidaa platform across the US, Europe and Latin America, for free. Beginning in the Spring of 2020, Pluto TV will be deeply integrated […]
The NoTa Conference, reviewing television trends and consumption around the world, has presented research that catch-up and preview viewing for television programmes can significantly add-up to the ratings. In terms of contents, “emotainment” represents a strong trend to unite the whole family around television. Fiction remains the key genre addressing both real events and supernatural […]
Communications company and sports and news-focused live TV streaming service fuboTV have agreed a video streaming distribution and technology partnership that they say advances how content can be delivered and consumed in-flight. The partnership claims to be the first to leverage technology standards from the global technical association, the Streaming Video Alliance, and apply them […]
Following the results announcement that exceeded even Disney’s expectations, analyst firm Digital TV Research has upgraded its forecasts for Disney+. Disney+ will be the biggest SVoD winner over the next five years. Disney+ will add 105 million paying subscribers between end-2019 and 2025 to take its total to 126 million. Disney+ will reach 53 per […]
WWE has reported that Q4 revenues increased 18 per cent to $322.8 million (€294m) – the highest quarterly revenue in the company’s history. Full year revenues reached $960.4 million – also a company record. SmackDown, one of the company’s weekly flagship TV shows, successfully transitioned to FOX Broadcast in the US during Q4, where viewership […]