Formula 1 and Netflix have agreed a season-long collaboration culminating in an original docu-series of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship, to be screened in early 2019. The pair say the Netflix original series will be the first to truly immerse the audience inside the cockpits, the paddock and the lives of the key […]
Last week saw media group Entertainment Studios/Allen Media buy Weather Group, owners of The Weather Channel for a reported $300 million (€241.9m). The Weather Channel launched in the US in May 1982. Part of the overall plan, according to Entertainment Studios founder Byron Allen, is to expand the footprint of The Weather Channel globally. “The […]
The BBC has commissioned Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and Thames (part of FremantleMedia UK) to produce a new Saturday night dance talent show. The commission marks the first partnership between the production companies and the BBC. Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia are seen as the globe’s most successful TV entertainment production partnership with credits including The X […]
A long-running case involving the sale of illegal TV boxes online has seen the offender ordered to pay back almost £5,000 (€5,722). Mark Hindley, of Lymm, Cheshire, in the northwest of England, was arrested in September 2015 on suspicion of selling illegal TV devices. Hindley appeared in court in 20177 after he started selling the […]
A man has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for his part in selling counterfeit CDs, which made profits of over £4 million (€4.58m). This was the largest import of counterfeit CDs seen in the UK, from popular artists such as Rihanna, Olly Murs and Take That. Michael Hargreaves, of Heysham, Lancashire, in the […]
The Board of Directors of digital entertainment group Modern Times Group has decided to initiate a process to split MTG into two companies – Modern Times Group MTG AB and Nordic Entertainment Group – by distributing all of the shares in Nordic Entertainment Group (comprising MTG Nordic Entertainment, MTG Studios and Splay Networks) to MTG’s […]
According to content protection and data insights MUSO, global piracy rose by 1.6 per cent over the course of 2017, identifying 300.2 billion visits to piracy websites across music, TV and film, publishing, and software. More than a third of these visits were to piracy sites hosting television content (106.9 billion); more than music (73.9 […]
US network AMC is to make all episodes of its new drama series The Terror available to AMC Premiere customers on the night of the show’s US TV premiere. The move follows a similar launch strategy AMC employed for its most recent original series, McMafia, which helped propel AMC Premiere to its most successful week […]
An academic study has found that computer users visiting content infringing sites are at a greater risk of contracting malware on their machines. According to Rahul Telang, Professor of Information Systems and Management at Carnegie Mellon University – H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, it was apparent that users who are […]
Channel 5 is launching its British preschool television programming brand, Milkshake! on Amazon Channels, within Prime Video. The service will be called More Milkshake! and is a first move into SVoD for Channel 5. For an additional £2.99 a month, Prime members in the UK will have unlimited, ad-free access to a wide range of […]