John Cena, Awkwafina, and Simu Liu are set to star in Prime Video’s action-comedy Grand Death Lotto, from director Paul Feig. Feig is directing the film from a script penned by Rob Yescombe (Outside the Wire). The film, which hails from Amazon Studios, will be produced by Roth/Kirschenbaum Films’ Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Feigco Entertainment’s Laura Fischer […]
Paramount+, CBC and Piazza Entertainment have announced that production has begun on the sophomore season of the high-stakes medical drama series SkyMed. Filming in Ontario and Manitoba, the young medics and pilots flying air ambulances return for more life, death and drama in the skies of remote Northern Canada. The original series will be available […]
Bitmovin, a provider of video streaming infrastructure, has optimised its Next-Generation VOD Encoder with Smart Chunking to further increase the quality and turnaround times with split and stitch. The new functionality optimises chunk lengths and bitrate distribution, delivering an improved visual quality throughout the whole asset that’s visible to audiences and achieving this at an […]
Politics, power and new voices dominate BPG Audio award nominations The war in Ukraine, in-depth investigations of political power and abuse and uncovering conspiracy theories are among the subjects nominated for this year’s Broadcasting Press Guild Audio awards. Plus, established radio names Anita Anand, Jane Garvey and Fi Glover are up against a wide range of new voices for BPG […]
Axiata Digital Labs (ADL) has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide its Digital Telco services to AWS customers. The collaboration will benefit the telco industry by providing a seamless and enhanced experience with ADL’s innovative Axonect Product Suite running on AWS. ADL will provide customers with its suite of systems and […]
Audible, a specialist in spoken-word entertainment, has announced the return of The Bias Diagnosis, with a new series dissecting gender prejudice in modern healthcare. Living with debilitating illnesses, being less likely to be prescribed pain killers, and waiting years for treatment are just some of the experiences that frontline A&E Doctor, Dr Ronx, host of the new series, The […]
The LPTV Broadcasters Association has announced that Preston Padden is the new Chief Strategist of the Association as well as becoming a member of the Board of Directors. Frank Copsidas, Founder and President commented: “We are not only excited, but truly honored to have Preston join the LPTV Broadcasters Association as our Chief Strategist as […]
BBC Studios has made three new appointments working across comedy productions for BBC Studios Audio. Ella Woods takes up the newly created role of Development Producer, whilst Kate Dehnert and Cody Dahler join as staff writers. Charged with developing new podcasts and radio programmes, Ella Woods joins the team from the BBC Sounds and Radio […]
Channel 5 has commissioned ITN Productions to make a new 4 x 60’ weekly series, Vanished, focussing on people who have gone missing across the UK. Presented live by 5 News’ Dan Walker, it will focus on current stories of missing persons as well as cases from the past few years. Every 90 seconds someone […]
Nordic media-tech platform Clipsource has appointed Maria Campo as the new Head of Marketing and Communication. Campo joins from the ‘smart button’ provider Flic, where she was Marketing Manager.Clipsource is a communication platform used by many of the world’s largest TV and streaming brands and the company currently has customers in 23 countries. The mission […]