Foxtel and BBC Studios have reached an agreement on a long-term extension of their partnership securing premium British drama, entertainment, documentaries, natural history, children’s programming and news for Foxtel’s broadcast and on demand platforms in Austtalia. The deal includes the launch of a new channel, BBC Earth. The documentary channel will feature inspiring and passionate […]
SPI/FilmBox has announced the launch of their global Turkish drama channel, Timeless Drama Channel (TDC), in Romania in partnership with UPC. The channel will be available in the basic package for all UPC customers and it will be broadcast with Romanian subtitles. Timeless Drama Channel is the first Turkish drama channel that broadcasts globally. Timeless […]
BT internet traffic saw an 40 per cent increase in traffic in the space of an hour when Fortnite Season 10 was released in the UK at 9am on August 4th. Fortnite, played by 250 million gamers, recently
Amazon Prime Video has secured global rights to Truth Seekers from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Miles Ketley’s UK based production company Stolen Picture. This new UK produced Amazon Original comedy horror series will launch exclusively on the Prime Video streaming service in over 200 countries and territories. Truth Seekers is a horror comedy series about […]
MultiChoice is adding a WWE wrestling pop-up channel to DStv for five months from August to the end of December on Channel 128. The channel is available to DStv Premium, DStv Compact Plus and DStv Compact subscribers until December 31st. DStv Family and DStv Access subscribers will get access to the WWE pop-up channel for […]
Kids’ video game title Roblox has passed 100 million monthly users – which is more than the 91 million Minecraft had back in March, according to Google data. It is assumed the figure makes it the most popular video game in the world right now. Roblox is a free-to-play massive multiplayer online game, and also […]
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing online piracy – has obtained a permanent injunction against SetTVNow, a piracy outfit that was illegally feeding over 500 television channels to its users via online streaming or set-top devices. “SetTVNow and other piracy outfits […]
HBO Max has secured the exclusive US streaming rights to BBC’s longest running global franchise, Doctor Who. All 11 seasons of the British sci-fi hit drama will be available on WarnerMedia’s streaming service at launch in spring 2020, marking the SVoD premiere of season 11. As part of HBO Max’s new long-term deal with BBC Studios, […]
In ESPN’s second season since returning to live Formula One World Championship race coverage, viewership for the race telecasts is continuing to grow after another record-setting telecast this past weekend. With year-over-year audience increases in eight of the 11 live race telecasts so far this year, Formula 1 on ESPN networks is averaging double-digit viewership […]
Twitch, Amazon’s popular video game streaming platform has lost one of its biggest stars having seen him jump ship to rival site Mixer, owned by Microsoft. Tyler Blevins, known more commonly online as ‘Ninja’, had amounted 14.7 million followers on Twitch, mostly through playing Fortnite – and presumably playing it well. Ninja will kick off […]