UK drama studio Lookout Point has partnered with Netflix on its adaptation of A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth’s best-selling novel, which will be airing later this month in the UK on BBC One. Netflix will be the exclusive home of A Suitable Boy for all global territories, except Canada, the US and China. In the […]
Netflix and Gaumont have announced a new comedy-action CGI animated series Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles based on the globally successful 35-year-old comic book, Usagi Yojimbo, from award-winning creator Stan Sakai. The series takes place in the far future, set in a world that mixes modern high-tech images with classic Japanese references. It follows the […]
Saudi Arabia says it has permanently terminated the broadcast licence of beIN Sports, which had been barred from broadcasting in the kingdom since mid-2017, over political disputes with Qatar. Saudi’s General Authority for Competition (GAC) said that it was also fining beIN Sports 10 million riyals (€2.34m) for practices “that restrict competition”. GAC’s decision follows […]
A study of the online content viewing behaviour of Indonesian consumers has found a massive 55 per cent reduction in consumers accessing piracy websites over the past ten months. The survey, commissioned by the Asia Video Industry Association’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) and conducted by YouGov, found that 28 per cent of online consumers currently […]
Sky Sports will exclusively show the British & Irish Lions’ three-Test series against the Springboks in South Africa in 2021, as well as their five warm-up matches. This agreement means Sky Sports will show its seventh successive Lions tour, a partnership that will enter its 25th year in 2021. The Lions will face the Springboks in […]
The media industry suffered 17 billion credential stuffing attacks – the automated injection of breached username/password pairs in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts – between January 2018 and December 2019 according to a new report from intelligent edge platform specialist Akamai. The Akamai 2020 State of the Internet / Credential Stuffing in […]
With theatres and auditoriums still very much subject to restrictions, subscribers to SVoD service BritBox will be able to enjoy comedies, tragedies, ballets and operas from the UK’s pre-eminent performers at home, as the service expands to support the British performing arts from July 23rd. A wide selection of titles will be added to BritBox’s […]
Global digital media company, Dugout, has announced a partnership with Trans Media-owned digital news giant, Detik, to supply football video content in Indonesia. The collaboration adds Detik to Dugout’s existing premium publisher portfolio in the region. This also includes partnerships with True in Thailand, PP Sports in China, Japan Times in Japan, Rappler in The […]
A+E Networks UK has transitioned the playout and service delivery for its entire bouquet of 30 channels in Europe to cloud-managed broadcast services specialist Amagi’s CLOUDPORT platform running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The channels consist of 23 from A+E Networks UK, based in London and seven from A+E Networks Italia based in Rome. A+E […]
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, will be available on Sony Interactive Entertainment’s PlayStation 4 systems starting the week of July 20th, shortly after Peacock’s national launch across the US tomorrow (July 15th). Peacock will offer a robust free tier of movies, shows and timely live and on-demand programming across news, sports, reality and late night. […]