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Sky and Sony extend content deal

Sky and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) have agreed a new long-term partnership across the UK and Ireland, Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. The deal means that all new and future Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) feature film releases including recent hits Jumanji: The Next Level, Little Women, Bad Boys For Life and the forthcoming sequel Peter […]

July 8, 2020

Netflix partners with SBS Belgium & Lumière on Soil

Netflix has announced the new Belgian series Soil. The original screenplay is based on the idea by Zouzou Ben Chikha, Dries Heyneman and Wannes Capelle. Belgian directors and screenwriters, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life), will direct the series alongside Mathieu Mortelmans  (Unité 42, Gent West, Vermist). Netflix is partnering with […]

July 8, 2020

Apple content deal with Maurice Sendak Foundation

In a move to bolster children’s content on the Apple TV+ streaming platform, Apple has announced a multi-year deal with The Maurice Sendak Foundation. Through the deal, Apple and The Maurice Sendak Foundation will reimagine new children’s series and specials based on the books and illustrations by Maurice Sendak, which will premiere globally exclusively on […]

July 7, 2020

Singapore: Anti-piracy court orders

The Singapore High Court has granted an order sought by BBC Studios, Discovery, the Premier League, La Liga and broadcaster TVB for Singapore’s Internet Service Providers to block access to seventeen domains associated with popular piracy streaming sites and forty-one domains associated with popular illicit streaming device (ISD) applications. These apps, which flagrantly infringe copyright […]

July 6, 2020By Colin Mann

Prime Video orders Fallout TV series

Amazon Prime Video is partnering with the creators of HBO drama Westworld to adapt Bethesda’s long-running post-apocalyptic video game series Fallout for a TV series. Amazon released a short teaser video for the show on its Twitter account, with flashed up the words “Amazon Original” and “Please stand by”. Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa […]

July 3, 2020

Peacock signs content deal with ViacomCBS

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, has announced an agreement to license popular Paramount movies and TV shows from the ViacomCBS library. Hit series including Ray Donovan, The Affair, Charmed, Undercover Boss, The Game, Everybody Hates Chris and Real Husbands of Hollywood will be available to stream on Peacock with the launch of the service on July 15th in the US – and will […]

July 2, 2020

Netflix producing D.P. series from Korean webtoon

Netflix has confirmed production for the original series D.P. in collaboration with Director Han Jun-hee, who is well known for his movies Coin Locker Girl and Hit-and-Run Squad. D.P. is based on the webtoon D.P: Dog Days by Kim Bo-tong. It tells the story of Jun-ho, a South Korean Army private who is assigned to […]

July 2, 2020

Disney+ unveils Summer Movie Nights line-up

This summer, Disney+ has announced a ‘Summer Movie Nights’ line-up of brand new original and newly announced  movies coming to the streaming service. Beginning July 3rd with the Disney+ premieres of Hamilton, the filmed version of the original Broadway production, and Frozen 2, there will be blockbuster movies premiering every week. The Summer Movie Nights […]

June 30, 2020

Kaepernick drama series heading to Netflix

The adolescent life of NFL quarterback and activist Colin Kaepernick will be explored in Colin in Black & White, a new scripted limited series from Kaepernick and Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award Winner Ava DuVernay. The Netflix series will focus on Kaepernick’s formative high school years, lending insight into the acts and experiences that […]

June 29, 2020

Disney to close UK linear channels

Disney has confirmed that, from October 1st, its Disney+ D2C service will be the exclusive UK home for content from Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney Junior – effectively ending the carriage of the linear channels by UK pay-TV platforms BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media. “The direct-to-consumer service, which garnered more that 54.5 million […]

June 26, 2020By Colin Mann