DVD rental and retail chain Blockbuster has followed HMV into administration, putting almost 4,200 jobs at risk. Directors of Blockbuster announced they had called in Deloitte as administrators — the same firm appointed to try to salvage the remnants of HMV. Lee Manning, restructuring partner at Deloitte, said: “In recent years Blockbuster has faced increased […]
Playboy UK has been fined £100,000 (€120,000) by Ofcom for offering hardcore videos and images online that could be accessed by children. The regulator said the company’s failure to have proper controls to stop young people accessing two of its websites was “serious, repeated and reckless”. Ofcom found that Playboy did not have acceptable web […]
LOVEFiLM, an Amazon company, has partnered with NBCUniversal International TV Distribution in a new deal that will give audiences on-demand access to hundreds of episodes of iconic American television series. Through this deal, which combines recent and classic TV series, LOVEFiLM members can now watch critically acclaimed comedies such as the US version of The […]
HBO Home Entertainment UK has announced that Boardwalk Empire Season 3 will be available to own and watch instantly through blinkbox and NOOK Video from January 21st. This is the first new-release title on NOOK Video since the launch of the HBO catalogue in December, making blinkbox and NOOK the only places in the UK […]
Discovery’s Kids channel is – for the fourth year in a row – the most popular pay-TV channel in Brazil, according to the latest Ibope data. However, if primetime (8pm-1am) viewing is measured then it is Fox’s diet of American series and movies that tops viewing habits. Children’s entertainment leads the ratings. Following Discovery Kids, […]
The Active Channel is now available to watch on subscription-free satellite TV service Freesat, increasing its potential audience by nearly 2 million viewers. The Active Channel which debuted online and subsequently on SKY in 2009, has officially become the most watched health and fitness channel in Europe, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a […]
Turner Broadcasting is to axe 30 per cent of its staff – around 250 jobs – across its international operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Gerhard Zeiler, president of Turner Broadcasting System International, said the cuts were tough but “absolutely necessary” for the company’s future. The company employs around 700 people in the […]
Announcing a raft of licensing agreements, taste-and-mood based entertainment discovery engine specialist is now claiming to be the biggest discovery provider for Tier-1 providers worldwide, and that its semantic approach will be at the forefront of next-generation entertainment experience. Jinni says the deals represent aggressive worldwide growth and the beginning of market transformation from the […]
Turner Broadcasting System, The Warner Bros. Television Group and Netflix, have signed licensing agreements bringing to US Netflix members complete previous seasons of animated and live-action programming from Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation and Adult Swim, as well as the TNT serialised drama Dallas. From March 30th, complete past seasons of such great Cartoon Network […]
Chinese online video site LeTV is joining with Innovation Works and Shenzhen Capital Group to establish the ‘Kaiping Fund’ (literally ‘Screen-On Fund’), which will invest up to 100 million yuan in promising projects over the next three years, according to Yang Yongqiang, LeTV chief technical officer. The fund will focus chiefly on smart TV applications, […]