Advanced Television

Crunchyroll acquires Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved

Crunchyroll, the ultimate home for anime worldwide, has acquired the rights to the touching and otherworldly film Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved, based on the beloved manga by Coolkyousinnjya from Studio Kyoto Animation. Picking up right where Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Season 2 left off, the new film finds Dragon […]

June 18, 2025

The Trip to the Northern Lights coming to Sky

More than five years since their Grecian escapades, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunite for The Trip to the Northern Lights — the eagerly awaited fifth instalment of the critically acclaimed Sky Original comedy series. Directed once again by renowned British director Michael Winterbottom (This England, 24 Hour Party People), the new six-part series sees […]

June 18, 2025

Sphere Abacus announces raft of sales

Ahead of NATPE Budapest, Sphere Abacus (SA) has confirmed package deals across a diverse range of scripted and unscripted titles. In the first of the deals brokered by SA Sales Director Ros Ali, TVP Poland has acquired the compelling and exclusive-access documentary Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, produced by Renegade Stories and Galafilm Productions, high-end […]

June 18, 2025

CBeebies unveils a summer of family events across the UK

CBeebies, the UK’s children’s channel, is launching its biggest live events offer ever, with a vibrant line-up of summer events. From concert halls and theatres to festivals and cinemas, CBeebies is delivering music, dancing, singing, fun and laughter to children across the UK. Lesley Bailey, Head of Franchise Brands BBC Content, commented: “From live shows […]

June 18, 2025

Branded Cities, IRCODE partnership

IRCODE, the patented visual intelligence platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Branded Cities, North America’s premier Out-of-Home (OOH) media company. This collaboration brings IRCODE’s interactive, attribution-ready technology to Branded Cities’ network of high-impact static and digital assets across the US, introducing a new layer of real-time performance to one of advertising’s most powerful creative […]

June 18, 2025

Death of A Showjumper doc coming to Sky in July

Sky announced the brand-new Sky Original documentary, Death of A Showjumper will be coming to Sky and streaming service NOW in July. The three-part series details the shocking death of Katie Simpson, a promising young showjumper, which devastated the horse community in Northern Ireland, exposing hypocrisy, secrets and violence under the surface of a seemingly […]

June 18, 2025

Sky, Channel 4, ITV announce joint advertising marketplace

Channel 4, ITV and Sky, in collaboration with Comcast Advertising, have announced their intent to launch an advertising marketplace, that will allow access to a premium on demand and streaming inventory through a single campaign for the first time. Designed to super charge the breadth of brands advertising on TV, the move will will bring […]

June 17, 2025

Streamers top Nielsen in US for first time

Streaming reached a historic milestone in the US in May as its share of total television usage outpaced the combined share of broadcast and cable for the first time ever, according to Nielsen’s monthly The Gauge report. Streaming represented 44.8 per cent of TV viewership in May 2025, its largest share of viewing to date, […]

June 17, 2025

Research: 28% of Americans tuning out of live TV

Attest, the New York-based consumer research platform, has released the findings from its sixth annual US Media Consumption Report. The 2025 edition provides insights into how Americans’ habits across television, audio, news, and social media continue to evolve. The research shows that percentage of consumers watching three or more hours of TV of any type […]

June 17, 2025

Stream, stream, stream

Stream, stream, stream; to corrupt the Everly Brothers classic. Nielsen has recorded that, for the first time ever, American viewers ‘tuned in’ for more streamer TV than OTA, cable or DTH put together. As a story it feels simultaneously momentous, but also has ‘small earthquake, not many dead’ vibes. One natural reaction is ‘oh, I […]

June 17, 2025