Netflix has announced that the first two episodes of its original series Marseille will be broadcast on French TV channel TF1 on May 12th – a week after all 8 episodes of the series debut globally online. ‘We’re delighted to be collaborating with TF1 to showcase the first two episodes of Marseille, the first French […]
A report from the European Audiovisual Observatory reveals that 27 per cent of films available on VoD in the EU are European productions, compared with 59 per cent for US films (from the 75 VoD catalogues analysed). Additionally, 30 per cent of films available on SVoD in Europe are of European origin, compared with 60 per cent […]
Crackle, Sony’s ad-supported streaming network, will launch their original programming on Xfinity on Demand on April 20th. Crackle’s first content deal with a cable distribution partner will make its slate of entertaining originals available to all Xfinity TV subscribers in the US across platforms on Xfinity on Demand. Crackle’s original long-form content will be distributed […]
In a mark of the benefits of its greater European negotiating clout following the creation of its pan-European operation, Sky and Sony Pictures Television have revealed their first ever multi-year pan-European movies agreement covering Sky’s subscription and transactional movie services in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy What is described as a “landmark” deal […]
IP means Big Data is now part of the broadcast landscape. What is it, how is it collected, how can it be managed and how will it deliver monetisation? Advanced Television brought together five top practitioners from Beenius, 4C Insights, IBM, Olswang and Tata to debate the key questions. [bitsontherun Xmg5wRQI-hLYU43gg]
Sky and Turner have agreed a long-term deal so millions of Sky households with children will be able to watch even more of their favourite shows from Turner’s portfolio of kids channels. This includes the Cartoon Network, Boomerang and pre-school channel Cartoonito. They will be able to watch all their favourite programmes whenever and wherever […]
Netflix has confirmed that it will stream Top Gear internationally, putting it in direct competition with Jeremy Clarkson’s new motoring show on rival Amazon. Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, said that the revamped BBC2 motoring show, now to be fronted by Chris Evans, will be made available on the streaming service as it falls […]
The BBC and BT Sport have retained the rights to The FA Cup until 2021, after the broadcasters reached agreement with the FA to extend their shared coverage of the competition for another three years. The deal also covers coverage in Ultra HD from the 2016-17 season. The Football Association has confirmed the extension in […]
Multi-channel programmer UKTV – an independent commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive – has recorded a 13 per cent leap in revenues and a 10 per cent increase in EBITDA on the back of a ratings performance that now puts its share of commercial impacts (SOCI) ahead of Sky and Channel […]
The BBC has launched its new BBC iPlayer Kids app, available for free on iOS and Android phones and tablets, as well as Kindle Fire. The new child-friendly app is safe and easy to use. With over 10,000 episodes being made available this year alone, it has all of BBC Children’s content in one place, […]