Advanced Television

Amazon Prime Video releases trailer for season 2 of Hanna

Amazon Prime Video has released the official trailer for season two of Hanna, which launches on Prime Video on July 3rd in the UK and more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The trailer can be viewed here. The second season of Hanna returns with eight, one-hour episodes, and follows the journey of an extraordinary young woman as […]

June 17, 2020

Tuesday Child’s Killer Camp heads to the US

The CW has announced it has completed a major deal for Tuesday’s Child’s new horror whodunnit reality competition, Killer Camp. As well as optioning the format exclusively in the US The CW Network has picked up the 5×60’ finished tape of the first series, which originally broadcast in the UK on ITV2 last Halloween, for […]

June 17, 2020

Aykroyd narrates Hotel Paranormal for Travel Channel

Travel Channel’s new series, Hotel Paranormal, premiering in the US on July 11th, follows the terrifying true stories of those who have come face-to-face with otherworldly hotel guests. Acclaimed writer, actor, musician and filmmaker Dan Aykroyd, who is no stranger to the unexplained, narrates each episode featuring spine-tingling stories of paranormal encounters told from stays […]

June 16, 2020

Mediaset merger plan gets court date

A commercial court in Madrid has set a July 1st hearing on Italian broadcaster Mediaset’s plans to merge its Italian and Spanish divisions under a Dutch holding, Mediaset Espana has declared in a filing with the Spanish regulator. The Spanish commercial court (Juzgados de lo Mercantil) suspended the merger in October 2019 as a precautionary […]

June 16, 2020From David Del Valle in Madrid

Forecast: Instagram to overtake Twitter as news source

Instagram looks set to overtake Twitter as a news source. The usage of the photo-sharing social media app as a news source has doubled since 2018, according to the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report. The trend is strongest among young people, with

June 16, 2020

BT Sport app on NOW TV

BT Sport is giving customers more ways to watch, by making its app available on NOW TV devices effective immediately. NOW TV joins a wide range of large screen devices and platforms on which sports fans can watch BT Sport, including Samsung smart TV, Sony PlayStation, Xbox and Apple TV, as well as mobiles, tablets, […]

June 16, 2020

Forecast: 190m 5G subs by year-end

Communications technologist Ericsson expects the global number of 5G subscriptions to top 190 million by the end of 2020 and 2.8 billion by the end of 2025. These forecasts are included in the June 2020 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, along with projections for data traffic growth, and regional subscriptions. The report also looks

June 16, 2020

C-Band: 10 new US satellites

The C-band replacement satellite orders for US coverage are being confirmed. Intelsat has ordered up at least six satellites. Four are to come from Maxar Technologies and will be built at Maxar’s Palo Alto plant (the former Space Systems/Loral facility). Two others will be supplied by Northrop Grumman. There will also be an additional seventh […]

June 16, 2020By Chris Forrester

HAPS to boost rural connectivity

Dr Ogbonnaya Anicho, a scientist at Liverpool Hope University, in the northwest of England, has called for High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) to form part of all future pandemic strategic planning. According to UNESCO, around 45 per cent of the world’s population still has no access to the Internet. In recent weeks, the World Economic […]

June 16, 2020

Moonbug launches channel on Sky Kids

Moonbug, a global entertainment company that develops and distributes values-based content for kids, has launched the Moonbug channel on Sky Kids. Families in the UK and Ireland with Sky can now access Moonbug’s kids’ content, ad-free, through the new VoD channel, including global sensation Little Baby Bum, Go Buster, Playtime with Twinkle, Digley and Dazey, […]

June 16, 2020