Netflix, the Internet subscription service for TV shows and movies, has secured the rights for the North-American premiere of Tom Fontana’s Borgia series. The distributor Beta Film/Munich has confirmed that Borgia will be given its first US showing on the VoD provider, which has over 25 million subscribers in the US, Canada and Latin America. […]
LoveFilm and StudioCanal have signed an exclusive long-term deal in the UK and Germany giving LoveFilm members access to the portfolio of new and library movies from the international film distributor for a 12-month window. UK and German members of LoveFilm will be the first to instantly stream all of StudioCanal ‘s latest and future […]
Eurosport has unveiled a new high definition channel available to operators and viewers across its Asia-Pacific territories. The Eurosport Asia-Pacific HD channel serves to further enrich the existing Eurosport offering that includes the popular channels, Eurosport Asia-Pacific and Eurosportnews, which are currently distributed in 19 countries and territories across the region. From the outset, TFN […]
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) – a partnership between ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC, with active participation from Channel Five, Sky, UKTV and the Independent Production sector – has revealed two major initiatives in digital production in Television. The first is the release of a report – The Reluctant Revolution – Breaking Down Barriers […]
FilmFlex Movies, one of the largest movies-on-demand service providers in Europe, backed by joint venture partners Sony Pictures Television (a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company) and The Walt Disney Company EMEA, has confirmed the launch of a ‘download to rent’ option on Film4oD, Film4’s online film-on-demand service. Download to rent, which saves the movie to the […]
An Italian court has ruled in favour of the BBC Worldwide and RAI’s joint action against Mediaset/Endemol TV dance show ‘Baila!’, which the court said had too many similarities with BBC format ‘Strictly Come Dancing’/’Dancing with the Stars’. Mediaset went ahead with their normal transmission after making some alterations to their format, while at the […]
Fox International Channels (FIC), the multimedia company of the Fox Entertainment Group dedicated to the production and distribution of Pay TV channels and digital services worldwide, has announced that 24Kitchen, its new food channel, will launch in the Netherlands on October 1st. 24Kitchen will be available 24 hours a day to over 3 million Dutch […]
Amazon.com has revealed a licensing agreement with Fox that will allow Amazon Prime members to stream instantly a broad selection of popular movies and TV shows from the Fox library. This deal will bring the total number of Prime instant videos to more than 11,000 movies and TV shows later this fall. FOX titles available […]
A 23-year-old North Carolina man who co-founded a website offering illegal downloads has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and criminal copyright infringement in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Matthew David Howard Smith admitted that he designed many of the features of NinjaVideo that allowed visitors to obtain high-quality downloads of content, […]
It’s “more likely than not” that new online video streaming providers such as Amazon will offer premium tiers, Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei said at a Goldman Sachs conference. Liberty’s Starz channel ended negotiations to extend its carriage deal with Netflix over price. The current arrangement, he says, is “inconsistent” with the way consumers receive […]