Advanced Television

Crunchyroll: “Black Clover most watched show”

Crunchyroll, the anime streaming service, has revealed that Black Clover was its most viewed title in 2020. It was the most viewed show in 87 countries and territories. The data comes from users in over 200 countries and territories and represents the most unique viewers of a given simulcast anime during 2020 from Crunchyroll’s 3 […]

January 21, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Success for 17th Starlink launch

SpaceX launched another 60 of its Starlink satellites into orbit on January 20th at 08.02am Florida time (13.02 GMT). It was the 17th mission for the Starlink team and went flawlessly. It is also the first launch for Starlink this year, but it is expected that another launch of 10 satellites will follow over the […]

January 21, 2021By Chris Forrester

Glastonbury cancelled again

The Glastonbury music festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The expected news was confirmed on the Worthy Farm event’s Twitter page. “With great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury Festival will not take place,” the tweet read. “And that this will be […]

January 21, 2021By Nik Roseveare

BT to connect Dutch diplomatic missions

BT has signed a contract with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide communication services to their embassies and consulates in 120 countries using the latest software defined networking technology. The contract is valued at 33 million euros over the initial period of four years, with an option to be extended to a total […]

January 21, 2021

Netflix UK orders Heartstopper; renews Bridgerton

Netflix UK has commissioned Heartstopper, a new 8-part live action series from See-Saw Films. Heartstopper started out as a web-comic in 2016, and has also been released as a series on graphic novels. The story follows Charlie Spring from the moment he meets Nick Nelson, and how they eventually fall in love. In a blog […]

January 21, 2021By Nik Roseveare

WarnerMedia taps Alpha Networks for development of Toonami Max

Alpha Networks has been selected by WarnerMedia to manage both the publication and dynamic editorialization of content for its Toonami Max SVOD service through tucano – the modular back-end, as well as the development of the front-end application, which is now available for all Orange subscribers. Toonami Max, a new ergonomic UI for the superhero […]

January 21, 2021

Wyplay joins global network of Alexa solution providers

Wyplay, a global TV Professional Services and Video Platform Solutions provider with more than 15 years of experience, is now a member of the Amazon Alexa Solution Providers network. With an extensive track record in voice-interaction experiences and integrations, Wyplay accompanies TV operators with the integration of the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) on multiple hardware […]

January 21, 2021

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival goes 100% online

The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival is to date the most important world film event dedicated to short films, organised since 1981 by the association Sauve qui peut le court métrage. As the current period is not conducive to gatherings and packed theatres, the organising team wished to maintain its 2021 edition by betting on […]

January 21, 2021

Sky sets 2025 target to increase its ethnic diversity and representation

In June last year, Sky announced a series of commitments to improve our approach to diversity and inclusion. Sky committed to invest £10 million a year across its markets for each of the next three years to improve representation and progression of minority groups, make a difference in communities impacted by racism, and use the […]

January 21, 2021

Netflix tops 200m subs

Describing 2020 as “an incredibly difficult year with extraordinary loss for so many families,” Netflix’s Q4 results show that with 8.5 million paid net additions in the quarter, it crossed the 200 million ‘paid memberships’ mark for the first time. “For the full year, we added a record 37 million paid memberships, achieved $25 billion […]

January 20, 2021