Amazon has announced the highly-anticipated launch date of the new Amazon Original series The Grand Tour with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. New episodes will be released weekly on Amazon Prime Video, every Friday for 12 weeks from November 18th, exclusively for all Prime members. The first ever episode of The Grand Tour […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has confirmed a new three-year deal for Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor, which will see two of the UK’s biggest television formats continuing on Britain’s most watched commercial channel until at least 2019. The agreement, with Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia UK, extends ITV’s successful, long-standing relationship with Simon Cowell […]
Spanish telco Telefónica is seeking to become a key player in the production of Spanish-speaking TV content internationally. To this end, the company is investing €70 million every year in the production of TV series and movies to be distributed worldwide. The company plans to release between 6 and 8 TV series per year and […]
The BBC has lost its deal to broadcast The Great British Bake Off, the makers of the international hit have confirmed. Love Productions said talks with the BBC had been taking place for a year, with a last-ditch meeting on Monday. They were reported as saying the issues were both money and the development of […]
Streaming giant Netflix has made its first Spanish production, 7 años (‘7 years’), a 90-minute film that takes place in a single room over the course of one night. Directed by Roger Gual and written by José Cabeza, it is to be released in 190 countries on October 28th. This move comes soon after the […]
From 360-degree movie trailers to the emergence of 4K TV services from Web and telecom players, global analyst firm CCS Insight, has revealed its expectations for the TV industry and the main highlights ahead of this year’s IBC event in Amsterdam. According to Paolo Pescatore, director of multiplay and media at CCS Insight, given the […]
Darren Childs, CEO of multi-channel programmer UKTV, has declared the service to be Britain’s fastest-growing broadcaster. Speaking at UKTV Live, its annual showcase event, at the BFI in London, Childs noted that the company had grown impacts by 40 per cent since 2010, and was home to two of the largest non-PSBs. “UKTV is now […]
Multinational cable, fibre, telecommunications, content and media company Altice has revealed its intention to strengthen further its industrial and operational strategy following its transformation into a leading transatlantic communications and media group with the closing of the acquisition of Cablevision. Altice plans to make its core strategic, operational and technical capabilities available to its subsidiaries […]
In advance of Labor Day on September 5, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has released new statistics on the film and television industry’s economic impact in all 50 US states, with the findings, shared by Julia Jenks, Vice President, Worldwide Research, indicating that in total, the film and television industry supports 1.9 million […]
BBC Three’s upcoming premiere of the BBC Worldwide-commissioned five-part digital-first travelogue cum photography series Mission Selfie, marks the commercial arm of the BBC’s debut with content specifically produced for online and mobile platforms in order to target younger audiences. Fronted by social media stars Ben Brown and Steve Booker, the series explodes the shallowness of […]