Netflix and Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan will continue to work together through a new partnership where Lohan will star in two new movies for the streaming service. Lohan will also star in the upcoming Netflix holiday romcom, Falling for Christmas, which will premiere later this year. In the film, Lohan plays a newly engaged, spoiled hotel […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has reported a strong 2021 with record revenues and revealed an acceleration of its digital strategy which will see the launch in Q4 of ITVX, which it says is the first integrated AVoD/SVoD platform in the UK. But despite the revenue record, softer forecasts and the looming costs of the streaming […]
Prime Video has announced Prime Video Pathway, a multifaceted training initiative designed to open up access to jobs in the TV and film industry across the UK. Committing to spend £10 million (€11.9m) across three years, Prime Video has unveiled a flagship collaboration with one of the UK’s leading TV and film school, the National […]
ITV Studios has announced the expansion of Armoza Formats with its new production company, Armoza Productions. The Israeli-based content creators and distributors will now serve as the production arm of ITV Studios within Israel, producing all ITV Studios content in the future. The production company is already attached to produce the new season of ITV […]
A&E and WWE have announced a multi-year expansion of their programming partnership with the commissioning of more than 130 new hours of premium WWE-themed series and specials to air exclusively on A&E platforms and to be distributed globally by A+E Networks. The multi-platform partnership includes 35 new episodes of the Emmy-award winning franchise Biography, featuring […]
Fox Entertainment’s MarVista Entertainment and TelevisaUnivision have entered into a development and production deal involving ten exclusive original Spanish-language movies to be produced for ViX+, the premium SVoD tier of Vix, the Spanish-language streaming service. As part of the agreement, MarVista will produce ten original Spanish-language films across family, comedy, romance, and holiday genres that […]
Sky and Peacock have announced Lockerbie, a new mini-series that will be based on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and the search for justice by Dr Jim Swire and his wife Jane who lost their beloved daughter, Flora, in the air disaster in 1988. The five-part series will be written by Academy Award […]
Netflix is set to release more Original TV content in 2022 than ever before, with 398 shows already expected to air on the platform throughout the year, according to Ampere Analysis’s latest data. This figure only includes those shows either scheduled to premiere or those scheduled to complete production and likely to premiere in 2022 […]
Netflix has signed its first financial agreement with the French movie industry – represented by producers and authors associations Blic, Bloc and Arp – which will see the streaming service contribute at least €30 million annually into French-speaking movies for the next three years. This contribution, which amounts to 4 per cent of the net […]
Paramount+ has revealed the first UK drama series commissioned for the global streaming service, which is set to launch in the UK this summer. The announcement follows plans outlined last year by Ben Frow, Chief Content Officer at ViacomCBS UK, to feature premium local drama and documentary content from the UK alongside an expansive catalogue […]