Emily Feller has been appointed as Warp Films’ new Chief Creative Officer and will work alongside joint CEOs, Mark Herbert and Peter Carlton, from the end of the month. Warp Films announced last year they would be joining the C4 Indie Growth Fund and the newly created role for Feller is the first of their […]
Screen Media, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company, has announced the acquisition of all North American rights to the true-crime-inspired thriller Maggie Moore(s). Directed by John Slattery and written by Paul Bernbaum, the film reunites Slattery with his Emmy-winning Mad Men co-star, Jon Hamm (Top Gun Maverick, Confess, Fletch). Maggie Moore(s) also stars […]
Channel 4 has commissioned The Joe Lycett Live Show’(working title), a new weekly Friday night comedy show hosted by award-winning comedian Joe Lycett that will air live from Birmingham, with an audience and celebrity guests. Following the success of Channel 4’s Joe Lycett’s Big Pride Party last year, for which Lycett is nominated for a […]
Sky and social impact agency, Spectra partnered with Stockport Council to host a careers summit for young people who have left the care system. At the Etihad Stadium on February 7th, 15 young people from Stockport participated in sessions in which they met volunteers from Sky, Microsoft, Mama Youth, City in the Community and Social […]
Phoenix Television, the UK based independent factual entertainment and non-scripted specialist, has announced that Netflix Acquisitions has pre-bought the new season of When Missing Turns to Murder. Netflix has acquired the 10×60’ series after the first season of the show aired in 2022 earning the show the number two position in its top ten ranking […]
Synacor has announced that its Cloud ID identity and access management platform for premium consumer and entertainment services is available onOracle Cloud Marketplace. Cloud ID enables consumer-focused applications to offer one of the easiest and most secure sign-in experiences and can now be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a centralized […]
Scottish indie Freedom Scripted has signed a first look distribution deal with All3Media International. Having secured investment from C4 Indie Growth Fund last summer, the deal will see Glasgow based Freedom partnering with All3Media International on its scripted slate. The focus of which is on thought provoking, character-led drama. Further slate announcements will be released […]
Research shows that as many as 60 per cent of consumers on social media follow CPG brands that interest them. Going into 2023, there’s no bigger social network than TikTok, and no greater opportunity for brands to reach audiences on TikTok than through creator-led campaigns. So CreatorIQ has leveraged its first-party TikTok integration to give […]
DZS, a provider of access, optical and cloud-controlled software defined solutions, has expanded its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Cloud EDGE solutions suite to include a cloud hosted service offering. The new DZS Xperience Cloud is a multi-tenant managed service offering targeting regional and rural communications service providers and fiber overbuilders that want to deliver their subscribers […]
Network4 group, which operates several entertainment channels in Hungary, has launched its first channel in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The new channel, Story4, with its romantic and family-friendly quality series and films, is aimed primarily at female viewers. It will be broadcast in HD quality. Story4 is the first channel to be launched in […]