Advanced Television

ITV Studios secures APAC scripted deals

ITV Studios has announced numerous sales of its premium scripted slate in the Asia Pacific region, underscoring continued strong demand, throughout Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. The sales include returning hits and breakout thrillers. Australian free-to-air broadcaster SBS has snapped up Mammoth Screen’s ITV ratings smash Code of Silence, which has just […]

July 21, 2025

5 reveals new scripted series

UK commercial PSB 5 has announced a raft of new series and returning commissions as it continues to add to its ever-growing drama portfolio. From gripping thrillers and sun-soaked whodunnits to sweeping historical sagas, the channel says it continues to deliver compelling British drama for its viewers. Commenting on the bolstered slate, Deputy Chief Content Officer and Head of […]

July 21, 2025

Trent Williams-Jones joins After Party Studios as Executive Producer

Creative production company After Party Studios has announced that acclaimed producer Trent Williams-Jones has joined the company as Executive Producer, marking a significant step in the studio’s continued growth and creative expansion. Williams-Jones brings with him a wealth of experience across digital, television, and branded storytelling, exec producing culturally relevant and award-winning shows including The […]

July 21, 2025

BBC World Service and BBC Two announce Global Eye series

The BBC World Service is bringing its award-winning international journalism to UK audiences with Global Eye, a new weekly current affairs programme launching on BBC Two from Monday September 8th at 7pm. Global Eye will showcase stories from around the world, present forensic journalism from BBC Eye, the BBC World Service’s critically acclaimed investigative unit, […]

July 21, 2025

Rivada loses Liechtenstein rights

Rivada Space Networks is a busy enthusiast for its ‘OuterNET’ satellite-based super-secure mega constellation. Company executives are regular speakers on the conference circuit. The problems that are never discussed are the project’s funding which is not yet in place, or contracts with a builder of its 600-craft fleet. The position has been exacerbated by a […]

July 18, 2025By Chris Forrester

US Senator exposes Big Tech’s piracy complicity

US Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has chaired a Judiciary subcommittee hearing revealing Big Tech’s role behind the unchecked piracy of copyrighted content to fuel companies’ artificial intelligence (AI) models. The hearing featured witness testimony from bestselling author David Baldacci as well as AI experts and law professors who lent credence to Senator Hawley’s claim: AI […]

July 17, 2025By Colin Mann

MPs to quiz BBC leadership

BBC Director General Tim Davie and Chair Samir Shah are to appear before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons in September for a session on the work of the Corporation, including editorial standards and decision making, and its workplace culture. The pair will be asked about the internal review […]

July 15, 2025By Colin Mann

CMS Committee Chair: “Long way to go” with BBC complaints processes

Dame Caroline Dinenage MP, Chair of the UK House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, has suggested that production company Banijay and the BBC need to “raise their game” in terms of complaints processes following the publication of the investigation into the behaviour of TV presenter Gregg Wallace. “More than half of the allegations […]

July 14, 2025By Colin Mann

Connect Europe calls for ‘bold’ regulatory reset

Connect Europe – the leading voice of European connectivity providers, representing 70 per cent of total sector investment – has urged European institutions to seize the crucial opportunity of the Digital Networks Act (DNA) to reignite Europe’s competitiveness. In its response to the EC’s Call for Evidence, the association emphasised that ambitious deregulation, bold simplification, […]

July 14, 2025By Colin Mann

York Court issues jail terms for illegal streamers

A man who pocketed £1 million (€1.15m) by running three illegal streaming websites has been jailed. Stephen Woodward sold illegal access to copyrighted content through the websites IPTV Hosting, Helix Hosting and Black and White TV. He used the funds to buy designer clothes and jewellery, holidays and a Jaguar F-Type V8 coupe worth £91,000. His […]

July 14, 2025By Colin Mann