Goalhanger has released a new behind-the-scenes film on YouTube telling the story of The Rest Is Football, from Gary Lineker’s first meeting with Goalhanger co-founder Tony Pastor to the podcast’s move onto Netflix during the World Cup. Featuring Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, Micah Richards, Joe Cole and members of the wider Goalhanger team, the film […]
S4C, the Welsh public broadcast television channel, is offering production companies a fresh opportunity to produce some its most popular series and events as it implements its strategy – ‘More than a TV Channel’. From October, S4C will launch an open tender process for the following. Pawb a’i Farn – Current Affairs debate programme. Cân i […]
The True Crime channel, part of a joint venture owned by AMC Global Media UK and Paramount, has announced two new original commissions UK Forensic Breakthroughs and Deadly Destinations, alongside the return of Britain’s Countryside Killers for a third season and the television premiere of the popular true crime podcast This Much Is True Crime. […]
Have you noticed how much the “big screen” in your living room has changed lately? It wasn’t that long ago that we were all huddled around a bulky box, waiting for a specific time of day just to catch our favourite programme. If you missed it, you missed it. These days, that screen is less […]
Netscout, a provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, has announced continued investments in infrastructure and technology to double its Arbor Cloud DDoS attack mitigation capacity to 33 Tbps, which is aimed at keeping critical digital services available during DDoS attacks, protecting revenue-generating digital operations, supporting always-on AI-driven businesses, and maintaining customer trust. Netscout […]
The BBC has acquired Kabul, a six-part fictional drama set against the backdrop of the real-life events of August 2021 in Afghanistan, from Mediawan Rights. Produced by 24 25 Films, a Mediawan Company and Cinétévé, in collaboration with the European Alliance, the series will be available on BBC iPlayer from August 2nd and begins on […]
The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition by Paramount Skydance Corporation of Warner Bros Discovery. The approval is conditional upon full compliance with the commitments offered by Paramount. Paramount and Warner are both active in the production and distribution of theatrical and audiovisual entertainment content, such as films and […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking views on the anticipated acquisition of ITV by Sky. The CMA is issuing this ‘invitation to comment’ to allow interested parties to submit to the CMA any initial views on the impact that the transaction could have on competition in the UK. The CMA has not […]
Yospace, a specialist in Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI), stitched 11.57 billion one-to-one addressable advertisements into live video streams during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. This equates to 297 million advertisements per day during the 39-day tournament, which is a big increase on other recent global events – the Paris 2024 Summer Games saw 41 per […]
In the quarter from January to March (Q1 2026), complaints to Ofcom on fixed broadband, pay-monthly mobile and pay-TV services decreased compared to the previous quarter (Q4 2025: October to December 2025). Complaints about fixed broadband and pay-monthly mobile decreased and complaints about landline and pay-TV stayed the same. Following the increase in complaints in […]