Jessica Hynes, Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman, Nick Mohammed, Nina Sosanya and Bill Bailey join Dawn French this Christmas Filming begins this week on new Sky original Roald & Beatrix, the tail of the curious mouse, a heart-warming Christmas film inspired by the true story of when a six-year-old Roald Dahl meets his idol Beatrix Potter. […]
Discovery has become the first broadcaster in the world to implement BRAVO, the newest addition to Evertz’ DreamCatcher suite of live production tools. By adopting this uniquely collaborative system as the production backbone for its high profile, direct-to-consumer streaming service, Food Network Kitchen, Discovery can deliver numerous, complex live shows from many different locations with […]
Research from cloud-based video production company Grabyo reveals that 59 per cent of UK sports fans would be willing to switch exclusively to streaming for live content and the latest highlights. The report shows that
DAZN Group, the sports subscription and distribution company, is looking to raise new investment of as much as $1 billion. It is reportedly consulting advisors on options including selling assets and an IPO. This is not the first time that the media company has sought investment. Fund raising efforts for $500 million were first reported […]
An extra 20 live Premier League matches will be shown live on TV during the 2020/21 season. However, there will be no more free-to-air matches available to fans, despite fixtures remaining behind closed doors – at least for the first part of the start of the season. Individual Premier League clubs tried to obtain permission […]
Research published by Ofcom reveals which UK telecoms providers are setting the industry standard for good customer service. The annual customer service report looks at how each of the major telcos providers performed last year on measures including customer complaints received, value for money and overall customer satisfaction. The data is based on how companies […]
ITV and BBC Studios (BBCS) are set to invest more than A$35 million (€21.2m) into BritBox’s Australian operation, which is scheduled to launch this autumn. BBCS and ITV will both invest A$17.7m ($12.7m) into the SVoD platform over the next three years. The service, which launched in the US in 2017, and has since also […]
India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will not be privatised according to its Chairman, K Sivan. India is reforming its space sector and there had been suggestions that one aspect could mean privatising ISRO. ISRO already has a commercial arm that handles many of its responsibilities especially the rental of capacity on many of India’s satellites. […]
Sunil Mittal, chairman of the Bharti group of business, has spoke at length about its involvement in bankrupt satellite operator OneWeb. Bharti has committed to investment $500 million in OneWeb. The UK government is matching the investment, while a smaller sum ($50 million) will come from EchoStar’s sister company Hughes Network Systems. Japan’s SoftBank and […]
BritBox UK has announced that a collection of 25 titles, primarily drawn from the Film4 library will be available on the service from September 17th. A further 25 titles will be added before the end of the year. FIlm 4 says the selection has been curated to reflect the modern and contemporary British cinema synonymous […]