BBC Sounds has announced a licensing deal for two Goalhanger titles, The Rest Is Football and The Rest Is History. Hosted by Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards, The Rest is Football brings analysis and insight on all the latest stories from the world of football from three of the biggest names in the […]
Reality competition format, Lego Masters, has been renewed for a second season by Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in Japan, following a deal with Banijay Rights, the global distribution arm of Banijay Entertainment. TBS will produce and broadcast a five-part second season of the format to premiere on its network Channel 6 and streaming platforms TVer […]
Stream Hatchet, a streaming analytics and business intelligence platform and wholly-owned subsidiary of GameSquare, has released its Q3 2024 report, revealing significant growth trends in gaming and live-streaming viewership. This quarter, live streaming viewership is at 8.5 billion hours watched, with a 12 per cent year-over-year increase—the highest growth since the pandemic’s peak. Key players […]
Cowshed Collective, the UK based entertainment studio and agency, is producing Season 2 of high-stakes reality series Inside for British YouTube stars The Sidemen. Season 1 streamed on YouTube, but the series will be moving to Netflix for its second season. The seven part-series is set to premiere globally on the streaming platform in early […]
AVoD and FAST Channel provider wedotv is launching another free TV channel with wedotv True Stories. The linear 24-hour service focuses on true stories, real cases and authentic people. In the True Crime programme strand, documentaries from ZDF Studios, Balanga and other producers shed light on true crimes and real criminal cases in series such […]
BAFTA has announced the 2024 BAFTA Breakthrough cohort, featuring 43 ‘must-watch’ creatives working in film, games and television, from across the UK, US and India. BAFTA Breakthrough is the arts charity’s flagship talent initiative supported by Netflix, providing a springboard to creatives spanning craft specialisms from costume design, production, casting, editing and games design, to […]
BBC Studios, the BBC’s main commercial arm, has returned £1.9 billion (€2.2bn) to the BBC by substantially growing its income and profits – reaching £1.8 billion and £202 million in 2023-24 – but needs to continue to evolve in a dynamic market to meet ambitious growth plans, a new National Audit Office (NAO) report has […]
The UCI Track Champions League returns on November 23rd – with every moment from every race from each of the five rounds broadcast live on Warner Bros Discovery platforms in Europe, across Eurosport and its streaming platforms Max and discovery+. Throughout the series, which starts this weekend in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – just outside of Paris -Eurosport […]
Titan OS, the Barcelona-based technology, entertainment, and advertising company, has announced a collaboration with FIFA+, to launch the FIFA+ FAST channel, bringing exclusive sports content to European audiences. The collaboration will make FIFA+’s programming, including live streams, highlights and originals, freely available to more than 9 million viewers across Europe on Philips smart TVs powered […]
LG Electronics is set to deliver a lineup of content from DreamWorks Animation and Illumination to the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain via a partnership with NBCUniversal (NBCU) Global TV Distribution. This content will be available through its FAST channel, LG 1, as well as the Kids & Family tab on LG Channels, which […]