BBC Worldwide has announced its first VoD deal in India. The deal, with the leading DTH provider, Tata Sky covers SVoD and TVoD services and gives subscribers in eight metros in India access to the best of the BBC’s drama and comedy via ‘BBC On-Demand’, a branded property on Tata Sky’s platform. Viewers can now […]
Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of Disney told CNBC that ESPN could eventually be sold direct to consumers in the same way as HBO but it wouldn’t happen in the next five years. Iger said ESPN could at some point bypass distributors but said that ESPN would look for much deeper penetration into the marketplace. […]
Angelina Jolie is to direct a movie exclusive for Netflix, based on a memoir by a former child soldier in Cambodia. Jolie has co-written the script with Loung Ung, adapted from Ung’s book First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. The actress/director said she was “deeply affected” by the book and admits […]
Amazon has announced that it will premiere Spike Lee’s upcoming film Chiraq – marking the first time its Amazon Prime Video streaming service has offered an original movie. The film, which Lee directed and co-wrote, is a musical comedy about violence in Chicago starring Wesley Snipes, Jennifer Hudson, John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. “I’m […]
Zodiak Kids has announced a deal with Sky for the rights to over 150 episodes of CBeebies favourites Waybuloo and Mister Maker. The episodes will be available in the UK and Eire through Sky’s On Demand service and via its mobile TV service Sky Go. Sky recently announced a major increase in the number of […]
As consumers embrace and experiment with a host of new ways of watching TV content, a new GfK MRI report has identified six new TV viewing audience groups and how they combine emerging and traditional options for TV use. TV Share of Clock – the first of four studies in GfK MRI’s new The Future of TV […]
The WWE Network is now available for $9.99 (€9.15) per month in Italy, offering all 12 annual WWE pay-per-view events live, including WWE Battleground on July 19th where Brock Lesnar will face Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. New subscribers to WWE Network receive their first month of service for free. WWE Network […]
A+E Networks has launched Lifetime Movie Club, the network’s first direct-to-consumer subscription service which grants subscribers access to a library of Lifetime Movies without commercial interruptions for $3.99 a month. The subscription video service comes in time for the 25-year anniversary of Lifetime Movies and is available exclusively on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch at […]
Netflix plans more alliances with Japanese content providers as it debuts in the country later this year. The new tie ups would help the company offer more films, drama programs, documentaries and comedy, Greg Peters, president of Netflix Japan, said in an interview in Tokyo. The company has said its Japan service would start in […]
Telecoms provider Lebara, best known for calling plans to enable migrant communities to connect, has launched Lebara Play, which aims to bridge the content gap by providing a new entertainment service for migrants. The service claims to be the only multi-ethnic entertainment service bringing together free and premium, fully-licensed content in 13 languages in one […]