A report from the European Audiovisual Observatory finds that the majority of EU films found on SVoD services around the world are produced in EU-5. The UK is by far the biggest supplier of EU films with 38 per cent of all unique EU titles, followed by France with 18 per cent, Germany with 12 […]
Children are inadvertently finding upon pornography online from as young as seven, a report has indicated. The survey, from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), suggested some three-quarters of parents felt their child would not have seen porn online but more than half had done so. Youngsters under the age of 10 described feeling […]
Carp Wars 2, the hit series from Fishing TV, is now live and free-to-air on Sports Channel Network (SCN). This adds to the archive of fishing content that SCN has been building since February 2019 with the UK broadcast rights acquisition of Carp Wars and The Fishing TV Show. Carp Wars has been a consistent […]
ITV has announced that wrestling fans in the UK will be able to watch AEW Dynamite on its channels when the new weekly show launches in October. ITV will show full episodes on Sunday mornings on ITV4 (some 4 days after it has aired in the US), as well as a highlight show on Monday […]
Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera says its investigative TV programme What Lies Beneath has revealed that TV piracy organisation beoutQ is operating from Saudi Arabia. Al Jazeera claims that two Saudi-based organisations were the alleged source of the piracy operation. The two service providers alleged to be involved were Selevision and Shammas. Selevision is usually a […]
Amazon Studios has signed an overall deal with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator and star of the Emmy Award-winning series, Fleabag. Waller-Bridge will create and produce new television content for Amazon Studios that will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories. Fleabag won six 2019 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, with […]
Pulped, a free direct-to-consumer online video channel designed for and about today’s Gen Z and millennial audiences, has gone live. The all-original programming is a blend of scripted and unscripted video series that are edgy, irreverent and audacious, always presented through a comedic lens. “There is no shortage of content options or platforms, but what […]
Virgin Media Television (VMTV) has announced changes to its daytime and tea time schedules which will see 300 hours of additional live Irish programming, resulting in the biggest commitment to local content in the history of the Independent broadcaster. The schedule changes mean that Virgin Media One will now broadcast live studio content from 7am […]
IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide, has released the Music Listening 2019 report, which examines the way in which music consumers aged 16 to 64 engage with recorded music across 21 countries. Report highlights: Music listening is up. Respondents typically spend 18 hours per week listening to music – up from […]
TuneIn, the live global streaming and on-demand audio service, has teamed with Apple to offer listeners access to TuneIn’s more than 100,000 global radio stations on all Siri-enabled devices and Apple Music. This collaboration comes on the heels of Apple’s release of iOS13, which introduces a new radio experience to Apple devices – including iPhone, […]