TV studio Celebro is set to begin hosting a new weekly show brought to air on Twitter by BuzzFeed. Launching on June 6th, #What2Watch will be a weekly roundup of recommendations of what to watch on linear and non-linear TV across the next seven days. The show will be broadcast exclusively on Twitter via @BuzzFeedUK […]
SPI/FilmBox has furthered its reach in Switzerland with the launch of four channels on Salt TV. FightBox HD, Gametoon HD and Fast&FunBox HD will all be available in English, while FunBox UHD will be available in English and German. “SPI continues to invest and expand its reach in Western Europe. Today, I am proud to […]
DreamWorks Animation has announced that Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, an animated action-adventure series, will debut globally on Netflix in 2020 as part of an ongoing multi-year agreement with the streaming giant to produce original animated kids and family programming. Set within the same timeline as the 2015 blockbuster film, Jurassic World, the original series is […]
Italian broadcaster Europa Way (formerly Europa 7) is planning to launch a new pay-TV platform in September, using DVB-T2 technology. Fly HD will initially distribute eight movie channels from leading Hollywood studios and a music channel that will broadcast major Italian and international events, broadcasting in HD/4K HDR with Dolby Digital sound. The platform, which […]
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and TikTok, the short video platform, have launched a new campaign in India to celebrate the ongoing NBA Finals. The TikTok campaign includes a contest called #DuetWithNBA and will engage with existing fans on the platform for the entire duration of the 2019 NBA Finals between Golden State Warriors and […]
Joe and Anthony Russo – co-directors of Avengers: Endgame – along with Wizards of The Coast and Hasbro’s Allspark Animation, have partnered to create a Magic: The Gathering animated series for Netflix. The Russos will oversee the creation of an all new storyline based on the popular collectible and digital card game and expand on […]
The Premier League and Infront have agreed a new partnership for free-to-air rights across sub-Saharan Africa for three years commencing with the 2019/20 season. The rights to the Premier League cover over 40 sub-Saharan countries, including major territories such as South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. “We are very pleased to be working with Infront […]
Following successful legal action taken by Sky, licensees of three Scottish premises – Natalie Coggans, the Designated Premises Manager (DPM) of Woodhead Bar, Andrew Quay, DPM of Darroch Bar and Lorraine Robertson, DPM of The Grange – have each been ordered to pay £10,000 (€111,283) in damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports […]
FIFA and beIN Media Group, the global sports and entertainment group, have today announced a media rights agreement that will see beIN Sports, beIN’s flagship sports network, exclusively broadcast next month’s FIFA Women’s World Cup France in more than 30 countries across Asia and the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). The deal means that […]
Game of Thrones ended last week and after 8 seasons, 73 episodes, 4,354 minutes and 5,863 deaths – producing a lot of data in the process. Research and strategy company MTM has pulled apart the numbers underpinning one of the biggest TV shows of all time. 1. Let Down Despite the gory conclusions, on aggregate […]