US model Chrissy Teigen is bringing the Eye Candy game show to short-form streaming platform Quibi. Based on the popular Japanese game show Sokkuri Sweets from Nippon TV, Eye Candy is “centred around teams of celebrities and civilians who will attempt to identify outrageous edible creations designed to look like everyday ordinary objects”. The series […]
BBC Studios and ITV have revealed plans to roll out their joint venture SVoD service BritBox globally, which could see the streaming platform expanding to up to 25 countries worldwide. Building upon the success of the service in the US and Canada, where it recently hit one million subscribers, as well as the UK, where […]
Thanks to a new broadcast deal running from 2020 to 2025, the entirety of French National 2 and National 3 football leagues will be broadcast live via a dedicated platform. Governing body Fédération Française de Football (FFF) has signed a deal with Luxembourg sports digital media specialist Fuchs Sports for the capture and digital distribution […]
Apple has announced a series order for Shining Girls, a new metaphysical thriller based on the 2013 best-selling novel by Lauren Beukes and starring Emmy Award winner Elisabeth Moss. Hailing from MRC Television, the series will be adapted for television and executive produced by Silka Luisa, who will also serve as showrunner. Moss will star […]
ITV Studios has expanded its production partnership with Spanish production house Boomerang TV. The partnership gives Boomerang TV the exclusive production rights to all the non-scripted ITV Studios formats uncommitted in this territory. Boomerang has a longstanding relationship with Global Entertainment, ITV Studios. They have been producing multiple shows for the company for many years, […]
Amazon Studios has ordered the new series Paper Girls, from Legendary Television in association with Plan B, based on the best-selling graphic novel series by comic book visionary and television writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Cliff Chiang. Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in […]
Senior executives at Sky Studios, the production arm of the Comcast-owned broadcaster, have refuted suggestions that Sky is at a disadvantage compared with recent SVoD and D2C market entrants such as Apple and Disney in attracting exclusive on-and off-screen talent, and instead can benefit from its status as a platform and content provider to work […]
BritBox UK, the streaming service created by ITV and the BBC, has confirmed four original commissions. In addition to A Spy Among Friends; the limited series based on the best-selling book written by Ben Macintyre and produced by ITV Studios’ BAFTA award-winner Patrick Spence, BritBox UK has greenlit a raft of scripted drama. The Beast […]
Richard Linklater’s new animated film, Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure will be produced by Linklater’s Detour FilmProductions and Submarine, and released by Netflix. Set against the backdrop of the 1969 Apollo mission to the moon, which celebrates its 51st anniversary this week, the new film is inspired by Linklater’s childhood in Houston, TX. […]
Actor Ty Burrell has started a new production company, called Desert Whale Productions, which has agreed a two year first-look deal with 20th Century TV. Desert Whale Productions has already sold its first project under the deal; a new comedy series for ABC with the working title Yours, Mine, and Paul’s, The series will centre on […]