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Camden docu-series on Disney+ in May

Disney+ has revealed new details regarding its documentary series Camden, which will premiere on Disney+ exclusively in May, featuring some of the world’s biggest pop acts, including series Executive Producer Dua Lipa. With access to the stars whose lives were changed forever by this small part of London, the series will reveal the extraordinary untold […]

April 25, 2024

Disney+ unveils first look at Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge

Disney+ has unveiled first look images for the upcoming documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge. Co-directed by two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton, the film will have its world premiere as the opening night selection at the 2024 Tribeca Festival. Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge premieres June 25th on Hulu […]

April 19, 2024

Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 on Disney+ in May

Disney+ revealed the third season of FX’s Welcome to Wrexham, which recently won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Programme, will premiere on May 3rd only on Disney+ in the UK. The premiere of the eight-episode season will include the first two episodes, followed by a new episode each week. Welcome to Wrexham is a […]

April 18, 2024

Disney+ restores The Beatles’ Let It Be movie

Disney+ has announced that Let It Be, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s original movie about iconic Liverpudlian band The Beatles, will launch exclusively on Disney+ May 8th, marking the first time the film has ben available in over 50 years. First released in May 1970 amidst the swirl of The Beatles’ breakup, Let It Be now takes […]

April 17, 2024By Nik Roseveare

Disney+ scores UEFA football in Denmark, Sweden

Disney has acquired the rights to show the next three seasons of the UEFA Europa League and Europa Conference League tournaments on its Disney+ streaming service in Denmark and Sweden. Through a deal with football governing body UEFA, Disney+ will stream the 2024-25, 2025-26 and 2026-27 campaigns from the second-tier and third-tier European club football […]

April 16, 2024

Disney+ adding IMAX Enhanced sound by DTS

Following its success as the biggest IMAX exclusive event release ever, Queen Rock Montreal will make its global streaming premiere on May 15th on Disney+ as the first concert film available with IMAX Enhanced sound powered by DTS. It will debut alongside the availability of IMAX Enhanced sound for 18 Marvel films. The announcement was […]

April 15, 2024

Winners of 11th Annual AMPS Awards announced

The Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS), the UK-based craft guild made up of over 540 of the most imaginative and experienced creative talents working in the field of sound for film, television, and games, has announced the winners of its 11th Annual AMPS Awards for Television Drama, Factual Film and Audio Products.  The winners […]

April 8, 2024

Iger wins Disney board battle

Walt Disney has secured enough shareholder votes to defeat a challenge against its board mounted by Nelson Peltz’s hedge fund Trian Fund Management. Enough votes had been to put Disney’s board directors safely ahead of Trian’s two challengers, Peltz and former Disney chief financial officer Jay Rasulo, sources told reuters. Blackwells Capital, another hedge fund […]

April 3, 2024

UKTV licenses titles from Disney

UKTV has secured the rights to six shows from Disney Entertainment which will air across its portfolio of brands. Alaska Daily and The Company You Keep will both air on UKTV’s crime channel Alibi this summer; A Small Light will feature on free-to-air channel Drama in May; Mike will air on entertainment channel Dave later […]

April 3, 2024By Nik Roseveare

Report: Netflix, Prime, Disney take 85% of European VoD

Concentration is the main characteristic of VoD usage in Europe with 85 per cent of viewing time generated by only three services (Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+). Of that viewing, 30 per cent is of European (including UK) content. These are the main takeaways from two new reports SVOD Usage in the European Union and […]

March 28, 2024