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Prime Video increases investment in Italian Originals

Amazon has announced three new Italian Amazon Original shows at its Prime Video Presents Italy showcase event, hosted at Hotel de la Ville in Rome by Head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke, Head of International Originals, James Farrell, Director of European Amazon Originals Georgia Brown and Head of Unscripted Originals series in Italy, Nicole Morganti. […]

January 23, 2020By Nik Roseveare

ITV capitalises on US demand for UK drama

ITV Studios has sold a range of its scripted content to the US. Brassic, Sky’s highest-rating comedy in seven years, has been acquired by SVoD service Hulu. Produced by Calamity Films for Sky One and written by BAFTA winner Danny Brocklehurst, Brassic garnered critical acclaim when it aired in the UK in August 2019, resulting […]

January 23, 2020

Swisscom TV extends Netflix partnership

Multiplay telco Swisscom says it is continuing to break down the barriers between television and streaming with the introduction, from January 27th, of  ‘Swisscom TV X’, which it claims will make the best Swisscom TV and the most popular streaming service Netflix available at a discounted price, with hundreds of channels, 1,200 hours of recording, […]

January 23, 2020

Apple considers show-related podcasts

Apple is in discussions to produce original podcasts related to programmes on its Apple TV+ streaming service, according to a Bloomberg report. Apple sent out a request for pitches last summer, asking podcast producers to pitch ideas for audio programmes with some connection to its shows – offering episode recaps, fan theories and the like. […]

January 23, 2020

WWE Royal Rumble on BT Sport Box Office

Following WWE’s move to BT Sport at the start of the year, The 2020 Royal Rumble event will be the first WWE PPV shown live on BT Sport Box Office on January 26th – preceded by a free Royal Rumble Kickoff show. The Royal Rumble sees 30 superstars enter the ring at regular intervals. The […]

January 23, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Hunger Games franchise set for prequel boost

The $3 billion Hunger Games franchise looks set for a further boost, with a prequel slated to be published in May 2020 – surely much to Lionsgate’s delight. Author Suzanne Collins revealed last summer that she was writing a prequel to the hugely-successful trilogy, with publisher Scholastic anticipating such enormous demand it has ordered a […]

January 23, 2020By Angharad Rhiannon

Serie A to become global media company?

The new president of Lega Serie A, Paolo Dal Pino, has proposed the transformation of the body responsible for the major professional football competition in Italy into a global media company. According to Dal Pino, the Italian championship “must go back to being the most watched in the world” by “shifting the focus from national […]

January 22, 2020From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Pokémon movie to premiere on Netflix

Netflix and The Pokémon Company International have announced that the newest animated movie based on the  globally popular Pokémon franchise will exclusively premiere on Netflix around the world (outside of Japan and Korea). The movie will go live on February 27th – also known as Pokémon Day to fans of the franchise, as on that […]

January 22, 2020By Nik Roseveare

£18K fine for Sky Sports pub pirate

Thomas Conneely, owner of the Dick Whittington in Watford, has been convicted in his absence of three offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission, in this case, Sky televised football matches, with the intent to avoid payment of the applicable charge. Sky Sports is only available to licensed premises in the UK via a […]

January 22, 2020By Colin Mann

FOX News Digital delivers record 2019

FOX News Digital delivered a record year in 2019, setting new highs across multiplatform views, average monthly multiplatform unique visitors, multiplatform minutes, and average monthly mobile app unique visitors, according to Comscore. Driving more than 19 billion multiplatform views for the year, up 12 per cent from 2018, Fox News Digital Network saw the largest […]

January 22, 2020