Crunchyroll has announced that an anime adaptation of the celebrated Shenmue game series is currently in production. The third Crunchyroll and Adult Swim collaboration, based on the Sega game series, will be a 13 episode series with animation production from Telecom Animation Film (Tower of God, Lupin the Third: Part 5), directed by Chikara Sakurai […]
BT Sport will premiere the next documentary from its BT Sport Films series, Proud To Be Town, on BT Sport 1 on October 3rd. The first full-length documentary to highlight the profound impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on football, the film uniquely captures the dilemmas and challenges facing sport at present. Beginning in June, with […]
Ideal Systems are now offering DTEN’s new all-in-one Zoom Room video conferencing device as a rental service in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, with more countries coming online soon. The new service is targeted at Business’s, Schools, Universities and Government Departments who want to be able to roll out and easily manage Zoom Rooms in the […]
Coca-Cola Great Britain kicks off its partnership with Sky Media to partner with Sky Sports’ Fanzone experience throughout the Premier League season. The partnership, brokered by MediaCom, encourages football fans and households to make their home the “home end” for live games and enjoy a Coca-Cola Zero Sugar as part of their at-home matchday routine. […]
The Premier League has cancelled its £564 million (€633.1m) TV rights contract in China two years early, creating a major financial hole as football struggles to retain its revenues through the pandemic. China was the English top flight’s most lucrative overseas television rights territory, with a three-season deal agreed in 2019. The ending of the […]
Tim Davie, the BBC’s new director general, has said he doesn’t support any switch from the licence fee to a subscription model. In his first speech since taking over, Davie said “For the avoidance of doubt, I do not want a subscription BBC that serves the few. We could make a decent business out of […]
For the first time Nielsen has included an SVoD top 10 ranking in its audience performance report for the US. For the week starting August 3rd
Ofcom has published the latest league tables on the complaints it receives about the UK’s major broadband, mobile and pay-TV firms. The quarterly report reveals the number of complaints made to Ofcom between January and March this year – capturing data from the first two weeks of the Covid-19 lockdown. All providers with a stable […]
Many headlines rang out ‘New BBC DG against subscription model’ following Tim Davie’s first speech. If my memory of reporter school is right – it is a very long time ago – this is a classic ‘dog bites man’ headline. In other words, no news at all. The news would have been ‘New DG does […]
A report from Standard & Poors Market Intelligence (S&P) by Sarah Barry-James suggests that the potential for some sort of ‘merger’ between AT&T’s DirecTV and Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network poses risks. Ergen is on the record as saying that a combination of the two DTH pay-TV giants is “inevitable”. But S&P reminds readers that Constantine […]