Netflix produced a huge surprise during the Super Bowl LII commercials, airing an ad that revealed the SVoD service had acquired the exclusive first-run rights to the third movie in the popular Cloverfield sci-fi franchise – and that it would be available to stream later that night. However, according to Nielsen, despite paying what would […]
Multi-award-winning producer, director and writer Ryan Murphy, and his Ryan Murphy Productions company, have agreed a deal to produce new series and films exclusively for Netflix, starting July 1st. Murphy, who is behind a string of hot shows for Fox, has reportedly signed a 5-year deal with Netflix worth $300 million (€240m). Disney was also […]
Comedian Michelle Wolf, a regular contributor on The Daily Show and Late Night with Seth Myers, has landed her own weekly Netflix half hour talk show that will premiere later this year. The show, which does not have a title yet, aims to “take a break from the seriousness of late night comedy. Instead of […]
Alongside parent company Liberty Global, UK multiplay operator Virgin Media is teaming up with Amazon Prime Video and All3Media International to commission psychological thriller series The Feed from The Walking Dead writer Channing Powell, and Studio Lambert. Based on the recently published novel by Nick Clark Windo, the series will launch in 2019 globally. This is […]
Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO of Disney, has revealed that the company’s ESPN Plus streaming service, set for launch in spring 2018, will cost $4.99 (€4.05) per month, with Disney’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) service scheduled for “late 2019”. Speaking on Disney’s Q1 2018 Earnings Call, Iger said the ESPN DTC business would feature a completely re-conceived […]
US pay-TV platform DISH is to deliver NBCUniversal’s 4K High Dynamic Range (HDR) coverage of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games from PyeongChang, South Korea. DISH subscribers will also have access to 2,400 hours of NBCUniversal’s Olympic live, on-demand and streaming coverage—the most ever for a Winter Games. “For the first time, The Winter Olympics will […]
The Italian Football League (Lega Calcio) has awarded the Italian TV rights for the country’s flagship Serie A league tournament for the period 2018-2021 to Barcelona-based content producer MediaPro for €1.05 billion per year. According to Deputy Commissioner, Paolo Nicoletti, the bid exceeded the legal minimum and so the League will now inform the Competition […]
Viacom has closed a deal with Telefónica to make a wide range of its TV channels and content available for streaming by subscribers of the Movistar Play platform in Latin America. Under the terms of the agreement, the first of its kind to be closed by Telefónica for its mobile and broadband subscribers, Movistar Play […]
The anticipated agreement between Telefónica and Netflix – to be officially announced by mid-February – is set to see Movistar’s pay-TV offer become more focused on cinema and TV series, to the exclusion of football on account of its high cost. Telefónica paid football rights owner Mediapro €2.4 million in 2016 for coverage, a high […]
With Discovery and its leading sports brand Eurosport on track to deliver the Olympic Winter Games to more people, across more screens than ever before, the broadcaster has developed a first-of-its kind methodology to measure audience behaviour across Europe. Discovery has unveiled three new metrics, which together will capture ‘Total Video’ – the new ‘TV’—across […]