After months of rumours, Sky – the Comcast-owned pay-TV group – has reportedly agreed on terms to acquire ITV’s broadcast and streaming unit. The £1.6 billion (€1.8bn) deal is said to have “moved in a positive direction” in recent days and was now being finalised by lawyers, according to a Reuters report. The total transaction […]
Sky has announced that the Sky Original film Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, will premiere in UK cinemas on September 18th. The movie sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s treasured pumpkin patch. When Shaun turns mad scientist to fix […]
Universal Ads, Comcast’s self-service advertising platform for the premium TV industry, has officially launched in the UK in partnership with Channel 4, ITV and Sky. The launch was first unveiled by the cohort at Cannes Lions 2025 Effective immediately, small and medium-sized enterprises can create, buy, and measure TV advertising campaigns across the three broadcasters’ […]
All You Need Is Guv is the brand-new show from Al Murray, The Pub Landlord, and it’s set to premiere on Sky and Now on July 3rd. Recorded in London on his current critically acclaimed, sell-out UK and Ireland tour, enjoy the best seat in the house with no risk of getting covered in beer (unless you spill […]
Sky has confirmed the commission of The Wargame, a four-part series where constructed documentary meets propulsive drama, based on the Sky News podcast of the same name. Produced by The Garden, part of ITV Studios, (Attack on London: Hunt for the 7/7 Bombers, 24 Hours in Police Custody), The Wargame takes viewers beyond the news cycle and behind […]
John Peter Turner, the licensee of the Dolphin Inn pub in Llanymynech, Powys, in Wales, has been found guilty in his absence of two offences in relation to the dishonest broadcast of Sky televised programming. In this case, Turner televised Sky Sports football matches with the intent to avoid payment of the applicable commercial subscription […]
For the millions of fans heading to pubs and bars to watch the World Cup this summer, staying connected is now as central to the experience as the match itself. Research from Sky Business finds that nearly two in three (62 per cent) fans attending a venue plan to connect to WiFi, and for 25 […]
Fremantle’s biopic about punk rock legend Billy Idol has sold to international broadcasters worldwide including Sky (UK), VRT (Belgium), Yle (Finland), SVT (Sweden), NRK (Norway), COSMOTE TV (Greece), AMC Global Media (Spain & Portugal), SBS (Australia), RTV (Slovenia), as well as securing Japanese theatrical rightsvia Malibu Corporation (Japan). The feature length documentary, Billy Idol Should Be […]
PÄRLA, the dentist-founded oral care brand on a mission to eliminate plastic toothpaste tubes, is bringing its first-ever TV campaign, ‘Beautifully Clean Oral Care’, to screens nationwide this June, live and on-demand across Sky channels. Backed by Sky Media’s Sky Zero Footprint Fund, which awarded PÄRLA £200,000 in advertising as a Disruptor category winner, the initiative uses […]
International content distribution and production Company, Bomanbridge Media, and Canadian next gen content studio, Wind Sun Sky, are collaborating to co-produce (with Bomanbridge distributing), a new animated series of hit multimedia franchise, Future Chicken. The partnership will start with 20 x 11-minute episodes (kids aged 6-10 years) of Future Chicken and The Planet Protectors (w/t), […]