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Snyder’s Justice League cut lands March 18

HBO Max has announced that the Warner Bros Pictures and DC full-length Max Original feature film Zack Snyder’s Justice League will premiere on the US streaming service on March 18th. The release of Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League – which clocks in at 214 minutes – will be supported across WarnerMedia and DC platforms, […]

January 29, 2021By Nik Roseveare

HBO, BBC, ZDF, Stan co-commission The Tourist

HBO Max will co-produce and be the US streaming home for limited series The Tourist, from production company Two Brothers Pictures (The Missing, Fleabag). The six-episode limited series is headed up by writers Harry and Jack Williams, alongside commissioning partners BBC One, Stan and ZDF. Jamie Dornan will lead this thriller charting one man’s search for […]

January 28, 2021

AT&T writes down $15bn on pay-TV

AT&T has posted a $13.9 billion (€11.5bn) loss in the fourth quarter, as the owner of Warner Bros and HBO took a big Covid-19 hit with $650 million in charges. But this is dwarfed by the group’s decision to accept a $15.5 billion charge on its pay-TV business, as subscribers cut the cord. The only […]

January 27, 2021

Whip Media promotes Hastings

Whip Media, the enterprise software platform provider for global content licensing, has announced that Paul Hastings has been promoted to SVP of Global Sales, effective immediately. In this newly created role, he will lead the company’s global sales strategy and oversee the global sales team. He is based in London. Most recently, Hastings served as […]

January 26, 2021

Sky unveils biggest ever slate of original content

Sky and NOW TV will air over 125 new Sky Originals throughout 2021. Sky will bring its subscribers 30 new Sky Original films and 30 new Sky Original documentaries, on top of a number of drama, comedy, entertainment and arts series. Altogether, Sky says there will be 50 per cent more original TV and film […]

January 25, 2021By Nik Roseveare

HBO Max names LatAm leadership team

WarnerMedia, a division of AT&T, has announced that Luis Duran will join the company in February as General Manager for HBO Max Latin America. He will report to Johannes Larcher, Head of HBO Max International, and will be responsible for the rollout and management of WarnerMedia’s direct-to-consumer product HBO Max in the Latin America region, […]

January 21, 2021

Portuguese broadband could limit SVoD access

Portuguese telcos can now limit or block access to non-linear TV services such as VoD platforms, catch-up TV and online games, to preserve the integrity and security of broadband networks and prevent congestion. This action has been introduced with a decree that regulates the new state of the Covid-19 emergency in Portugal, which comes into […]

January 15, 2021From Branislav Pekic in Rome

HBO Max revives Sex and the City

HBO Max, the US SVoD service, has given a series order to And Just Like That…, a new chapter of the celebrated HBO series, Sex and the City, from executive producer Michael Patrick King and starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis. The new Max Original series is based on the book, Sex […]

January 11, 2021

Data: The Mandalorian most pirated show of 2020

Disney+’s The Mandalorian has earned the dubious honour of being the most-pirated TV show in 2020, acccording to data from TorrentFreak.The Star Wars spin-off series decrowned Game of Thrones which has dominated the chart for the last several years. Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys came in second place and HBO’s Westworld completed the top three. […]

January 5, 2021By Nik Roseveare

HBO Max acquires Arthur’s Law

US streaming platform HBO Max has announced that it will be the exclusive home to WarnerMedia Germany’s series Arthur’s Law, which is set to premiere on January 7th.  The German-language dark comedy has won multiple awards including a Rockie Award as “best non-English comedy series.” In the show, unemployed Arthur Ahnepol ekes out a bleak existence. Drawn from the strains […]

January 5, 2021