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Disney signs first-look deal with Kaepernick

Ativist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is set to feature in an exclusive docuseries produced by ESPN Films as part of a first-look deal with The Walt Disney Company. The deal between Kaepernick’s production arm, Ra Vision Media, and Disney will focus on telling scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice and […]

July 7, 2020

UK sport, TV and film quarantine exemptions

Oliver Dowden, the UK Culture Secretary, has brokered agreements that will allow selected international sporting events and production on some of the biggest film and television productions to get underway safely this summer, in a major boost for the nation and its economy. A number of sports stars and their support teams, alongside international film […]

July 6, 2020By Colin Mann

€5bn hit for French film and AV sectors

The French Film and audiovisual sectors (TV, radio, video) have suffered a €4.9 billion drop in activity during the Covid-19 crisis, which represents 20 per cent of their global 2020 turnover. The figures released by French ministry of Culture, working on the hypothesis that there won’t be a second lockdown, forecasts that the Covid-19 impact […]

July 3, 2020From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Sky resumes filming entertainment shows

Filming on Sky’s entertainment series There’s Something About Movies and A League of Their Own is set to start this month, with both shows landing on screens later this year. The shows will film without a live audience for the first time but will still include the fan-favourite segments, and challenges have already started filming […]

July 3, 2020

Prime Video orders Fallout TV series

Amazon Prime Video is partnering with the creators of HBO drama Westworld to adapt Bethesda’s long-running post-apocalyptic video game series Fallout for a TV series. Amazon released a short teaser video for the show on its Twitter account, with flashed up the words “Amazon Original” and “Please stand by”. Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa […]

July 3, 2020

Deezer, TV Azteca Mexico alliance

Music streaming service Deezer and Spanish-language television programmer TV Azteca say they are shaking up audio streaming in Mexico with an alliance to bring Mexicans all the music and podcasts they love. The exclusive partnership will accelerate Deezer’s growth in Mexico as TV Azteca and companies of Grupo Salinas promote Deezer across their businesses and […]

July 3, 2020

DeadEndia series heading to Netflix

Netflix and Blink Industries have announced a new 2D animated series DeadEndia based on the graphic novels from award-winning creator Hamish Steele. The series will be produced at the Blink Industries studio in London and will premiere globally on Netflix in 2021. Based on Hamish’s horror-comedy graphic novels of the same name and web short […]

July 3, 2020

Eleven Sports, Mediapro team up

Sports TV channel group Eleven Sports and Spanish multimedia company Mediapro are joining forces on a series of strategic international projects to support the growth of both groups worldwide. With the sports media industry heavily impacted by Covid-19 over the past few months, the pair will be looking to pull together their expertise and capabilities […]

July 2, 2020

Netflix producing D.P. series from Korean webtoon

Netflix has confirmed production for the original series D.P. in collaboration with Director Han Jun-hee, who is well known for his movies Coin Locker Girl and Hit-and-Run Squad. D.P. is based on the webtoon D.P: Dog Days by Kim Bo-tong. It tells the story of Jun-ho, a South Korean Army private who is assigned to […]

July 2, 2020

Sony takes majority stake in prodco Eleven

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has agreed a deal to take a majority stake in production company Eleven –  maker of the hit Netflix show Sex Education. The company was founded in 2006 by Jamie Campbell and Joel Wilson, and has also delivered series including Glue on E4 and The Enfield Haunting on Sky. Future projects […]

July 1, 2020