Deprived football fans seeking their fix flocked to BT Sport over the weekend, with viewing figures showing a fivefold increase on the previous best performing Bundesliga match this season. Borussia Dortmund’s 4-0 win over rivals Schalke in the Revierderby drew an audience of 1.4 million viewers across television and digital coverage, matching viewing figures for […]
A wide selection of classic movies from Hollywood’s golden age have arrived on iPlayer, including the definitive monster movie King Kong, quintessential musical Top Hat and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane – still regarded by many as the greatest movie ever made. Viewers can now watch 23 films produced by RKO Pictures on iPlayer, discovering unseen […]
The European Commission has approved Telia Company’s decision to license standalone OTT rights, in Sweden and Finland, to Discovery Networks. The European Commission approved the acquisition of TV4, C More and MTV on November 12th, 2019 enabling Telia Company to proceed in the Nordics with its strategy of creating convergence that can meet customers’ demands […]
Amazon Prime Video has announced its next Spanish unscripted Amazon Exclusive series, Living Abroad. The four-episode, Spanish-language docuseries will give exclusive access into the private lives of a group of four footballers, including Manchester United’s Juan Mata, who belonged to the Spanish football “Golden Generation” and were part of the acclaimed national team that won […]
Pay-TV platform COSMOTE TV, part of the OTE Group, has gone live with video technology specialist Synamedia’s Media Streamer CDN platform for its new streaming service. Synamedia’s virtualised Media Streamer platform is deployed on a distributed private cloud architecture, providing high-performance edge caching and streaming through a network of servers deployed locally across cities throughout […]
George Lopez, the US actor and comedian best-known for his ABC sitcom The George Lopez Show, returns to his stand-up roots making his Netflix original comedy special debut with We’ll Do It For Half. Lopez delivers a hilarious exploration of race, politics, and life lessons to be learned from the Latino community; especially the elders. […]
There will be no IBC in 2020. The organisation has announced that, regretfully, the Covid-19 crisis has led it to the conclusion there is no viably safe way to hold the event. Although the RAI had said it is opening and can manage social distancing, continuing restrictions on travel – including quarantines for returning visitors […]
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has imposed a sanction on the licensee Loveworld Limited, which broadcasts the religious television channel Loveworld, after a news programme and a live sermon included potentially harmful claims about causes of, and treatments for, Covid-19. Ofcom’s investigation found that a report on Loveworld News included unsubstantiated claims that 5G was the […]
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s soon-to-launch streaming service, has unveiled original content that will be available to stream on July 15th 2020, when the service rolls out in the US. Peacock Premium customers can stream all first season episodes of Brave New World, The Capture, Intelligence and Lost Speedways; sports documentary In Deep with Ryan Lochte; and the […]
Apple has agreed a multi-year first-look deal with renowned Hollywood director Ridley Scott and his Scott Free Productions company. Under the terms of the deal, Scott Free will create TV shows for the Apple TV+ streaming platform. The Scott Free production company has produced a number of successful TV series including Amazon’s Man in the […]