Seven Seas Films, founded by Dan Sefton and Simon Lupton, announce their partnership with Nick Leese’ Tin Hat Film and TV Productions and Spain’s La Pepa to develop a drama adaptation of the best-selling novel Driving Over Lemons, which will be written by Dan Sefton (Good Karma Hospital, Delicious, The Mallorca Files). Driving Over Lemons […]
The NHL (National Hockey League) will once again be available via Movistar+ in Spain.The platform has reached a multi-year deal for the rights to broadcast the US competition to its subscribers. Ice hockey fans will have weekly access to two of the best games on Movistar Deportes, with further options in the playoffs where, starting […]
Orange has reached an agreement with Movistar that will allow the French operator to broadcast Spain’s Supercopa matches. Orange will add the Movistar Supercopa TV channel to its line-up and will broadcast three Supercopa matches between January 12th and 16th at no extra cost for football subscribers. The matches will be also available to bars […]
Some 32.2 million Spaniards have a pay-TV service, representing 82.8 per cent of the country’s population, with 59.8 per cent subscribing to at least two different platforms. The latest figures from consultancy Barlovento Comunicacion reveal that each Spaniard has access to an average of 2.7 platforms. Netflix is the leading service with an average share […]
DAZN will cease offering the dual user option that allows simultaneous viewing of content by two users on different devices with the same account. Speaking to Milano Finanza, Veronica Diquattro, the Chief Revenue Officer Europe and CEO for Italy and Spain, said that monitoring had showed that the feature is being misused by users who […]
Orange Spain is to negotiate with Movistar and DAZN, successful bidders of La Liga rights for the next five years, in order to continue offering pay-TV football to its customers. “Football is very important for our TV offer,” declared Jean François Fallacher, CEO of Orange. “We will negotiate with both companies.” Orange Spain has been […]
US streaming services, such as Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video, will have to invest €15 million a year in TV and movie productions in Catalonian, Basque and Galician languages as a result of a political deal between the government and the Catalonian party ERC to approve Spain’s annual budget. Out of the total […]
Vodafone Spain has opened up 40 pay-TV channels to all subscribers during Christmas in a promotion available until January 10th. Current and new subscribers will be able to watch all these channels for free –including series, cinema, documentaries and music. They will be able to watch them on live through all devices and access the […]
The Spanish Administration is set to block Vocento’s sale of its two DTT licences to Squirrel Capital and put them up for auction, according to Spanish daily The Objective. The Spanish government will reportedly refuse to give its go-ahead to the sale on the grounds that the licences are public with the strategy preventing operators […]
Netflix’s Spanish series Money Heist led the Whip Watch Report of streaming originals among Spanish viewers for the week of November 29th – December 5th. The fifth and final season of the global hit debuted on December 3rd and also ranked #1 on the Whip Watch Reports for Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, and UK. The […]