Following recent announcements of deals with broadcasters such as the UK’s Channel 4 and beIN SPORTS, single-seater championship W Series has confirmed the first step of its ambitious broadcast plan which aims to provide race coverage to hundreds of millions of fans across the globe. It has now secured broadcast deals in more than 175 […]
Film4 has teamed with global film distributor Park Circus to offer UK cinemas a programme of six classic Film4 productions to encourage UK audiences back to the big screen this summer. The season will be supported by an on-air promotional campaign running across the Channel 4 portfolio of channels and a paid digital campaign, both […]
Celebrated 90s teen drama series, Party of Five, along with the 2020 reboot, are coming to All 4. Viewers will be whisked to 90s San Francisco from June 25th as all six seasons of the original classic, which ran from 1994 – 2000, and the rebooted iteration of Party of Five from 2020, both from […]
TV broadcasters Sky, ITV and Channel 4 are working together to launch CFlight – a unified advertising metric that captures live, on-demand and time-shifted commercial impressions across all mainstream viewing platforms in the UK. The UK’s CFlight is a post-campaign online evaluation tool, using combined linear TV and broadcaster VoD data to show media buyers […]
All-female single-seater racing championship W Series says it is continuing to break down barriers as it confirms the continuation of its free-to-air broadcast partnership with UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 for the 2021 season. In line with its mission to promote diversity in motorsport, W Series’ on-screen commentary team will consist of equal numbers of […]
Software-defined storage and data management solution provider, pixitmedia, has welcomed two new additions to its leadership team as part of the company’s continued global growth and expansion. As the new Director of Strategic Technology and Innovation, Steve Penney joins pixitmedia with a strong history of managing teams to deliver media infrastructure environments for high profile […]
Eleanor Lawrence has joined London-based production company Lucky 17, sister of the multi award-winning talent agency UTC Artist Management (part of The UTC Group), as partner and Head of Scripted to spearhead their move into original content creation. Working closely with co-founders David Geli and Pollyanna McGirr, Lawrence will focus the creation of original IP […]
UK culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee that privatisation of Channel 4 was “on the table” as an option to “provide a sustainable future for the broadcaster”. He said that th “rapidly changing broadcasting landscape”, and the growth of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, meant sweeping changes were […]
Live coverage of The British & Irish Lions will return to terrestrial television for the first time in nearly 30 years with Channel 4’s broadcast of the Vodafone Lions 1888 Cup against Japan next month. In addition to live coverage of the pre-Tour Test match against Japan from BT Murrayfield on June 26th, Channel 4 […]
BritBox UK has announced that the streamer has commissioned original 8 x 60’ scripted thriller Marlow from Motive Pictures and Endeavor Content. Feuding families the Marlows and the Wyatts have existed in the “Edgelands” of the Thames Estuary for centuries – facing off across the water in this land of smugglers, mudlarks, entrepreneurs, opportunists. Natural […]