Global streaming services’ share of investments in European original content grew to 16 per cent in 2021, according to a report from the European Audiovisual Observatory. Although Netflix accounted for over half (56 per cent), it was down from 92 per cent two years earlier as other streamers, in particular Prime Video, increased their share. […]

Pact’s annual TV Production Census has revealed that UK revenues have nearly returned to pre-Covid levels, growing by 13 per cent in 2021 to £3.25 billion (€3.77bn), just £79 million below pre-Covid revenues in 2019. Despite the pandemic still having an impact on life in 2021, innovations by the sector, as well as the Government’s […]

Netflix and Scen & Film (formerly Teaterförbundet, The Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film) have announced an extended partnership. Following the agreement on success based remuneration for Swedish Netflix Original Series in 2020, Netflix and Scen & Film have now agreed on a similar framework for films. This means that when a Swedish Netflix […]

Survivor, one of the world’s most successful TV formats, is coming to the UK. A new UK adaption of the reality series has been commissioned by BBC One and BBC iPlayer from Banijay UK company Remarkable Entertainment, run by producers Natalka Znak and Claire O’Donohoe. The new series of the physical and psychological reality gameshow […]

Members of Pact, the UK screen sector trade body representing and supporting independent production and distribution companies, have sent an open letter to the Conservative Leadership candidates, calling on them to reconsider the Government’s plans to privatise Channel 4. The letter to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak has been signed by over 750 Pact members representing […]

Netflix has announced a slate of upcoming made-in-Indonesia films and series. The seven new titles, spanning sci-fi thriller, comedy and period drama, were unveiled at the Waktu Netflix Indonesia (Time for Netflix Indonesia) event held today [September 2nd]. “The Indonesian film industry has evolved rapidly in recent years. More and more  creators and stories from […]

The acclaimed novel Stolen by author Ann-Helén Laestadius is being adapted into a film for Netflix. Directed by Elle Márjá Eira and written for the screen by Peter Birro, the film adaptation is planned to have its global premiere in 2024. In Stolen, Laestadius portrays a young woman’s struggle to defend her indigenous heritage in […]

The International Sámi Film Institute and Netflix have entered into a partnership to support and further develop Sámi voices in the Nordic region. The partnership is part of the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity, which aims to help create new opportunities to support diversity and representation within the entertainment industry through training and up-skilling initiatives. […]

UK film and TV production company insolvencies have jumped 69 per cent in the past year, from 67 to 113, according to research from audit, tax and advisory firm Mazars. Many of those insolvencies were of financially weaker production companies that missed out on last year’s UK film & TV industry boom as they couldn’t […]

Curiosity, the global factual entertainment media company, has announced production on GIANTS, a 5-part series circling the globe to find the biggest beasts to have walked our planet and unlock their evolutionary secrets. Curiosity is teaming with production company Off The Fence to bring the series to life. From the Savanna elephant and its ancient […]