BBC Studios’ Science Unit has announced a new series fronted by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Unveiled at the Showcase 2020 event, the series will follow Thunberg’s international crusade, which takes her to the front line of climate change in some of the most extraordinary places on earth, as she explores what actions could be […]
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, […]
Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, has confirmed that the long-running motoring entertainment show is moving to BBC One for its 29th series later this year. The new line up of Paddy McGuinness, Freddie Flintoff and Chris Harris has been a hit with viewers, and their debut series on BBC Two in June last year […]
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 […]
ITV Studios’ and Motion Content Group’s record-breaking format Love Island has been commissioned by Antena in Romania, which becomes the 15th territory to broadcast a local version. Last year it also launched in Belgium, Netherlands, Poland and Hungary. It has run for three series in Germany, two in Australia and Norway, and has also been […]
BBC Africa TV programmes are now available to viewers in South Africa on the free-to-air channel Soweto TV. The deal means viewers to Soweto TV also gain access to the BBC’s global news programme for children produced by Angelina Jolie, My World, multi award-winning investigative series Africa Eye, weekly health, fitness and food programme Life […]
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 […]
Portuguese FTA broadcaster TVI has acquired the rights to air 22 live matches from this summer’s Euro 2020 football tournament in a sublicensing deal with pay-TV network SportTV. TVI will broadcast all of Portugal’s matches, as well as nine group stage games, four round of 16 game, both semi-finals and the final. The network will […]