Leading Spanish football club FC Barcelona has launched its new streaming service – Barça TV+ – together with its CULERS Premium Membership programme. Both offerings are part of the club’s new digital strategy and reflect the new ways in which fans are engaging with sports and entertainment brands worldwide. Barça claims to be the current […]
BT Sport says it is continuing its award-winning innovation by teaming with a range of specialists to deliver its first-ever live, interactive quiz shows. BT Sport will introduce new ‘pop up’ live play-along quiz shows around programming such as boxing, rugby, WWE and UFC. In recent weeks it has been broadcasting The Beautiful Quiz, an […]
As of August 2020, for the long-awaited return of France’s premier football championship, La Ligue, French football will have a new home; the Telefoot channel. Content producer and rightsholder Mediapro Group and French commercial broadcaster TF1 Group have signed what they say is an “unprecedented” agreement. This four-year, renewable partnership is based on three fundamental […]
Coronation Street’s cast and crew have returned to work after an enforced production break due to the coronavirus pandemic. The production team for ITV’s flagship soap opera have commenced a health and safety induction to familiarise themselves with the new protocols that are now in place throughout the studios and on the Coronation Street set. […]
Apple has given a straight-to-series order to Hedy Lamarr, a new eight-episode limited series starring and executive produced by Gal Gadot (star of the Wonder Woman franchise), and written and executive produced by Golden Globe Award winner Sarah Treem (The Affair, House of Cards). Hailed as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” Hedy Lamarr […]
Apple has announced a new partnership with The Jim Henson Company to reboot the classic series Fraggle Rock. The new series will be reimagined as a global Apple Original series for the Apple TV+ platform. Produced by The Jim Henson Company in association with New Regency, the series will reunite the original stars – Gobo, […]
Orange Spain and Mediapro Studios have signed an agreement to jointly acquire TV content and movies to distribute on an exclusive basis through the Orange pay-TV platform. It is a similar deal to the recent agreement between Movistar and Atresmedia who agreed to set up a joint TV production company to share and distribute content. […]
Netflix and production company Fiction Valley have announcd the first Dutch Netflix feature film. The film is written by Golden Calf winning duo, Shady El-Hamus (De Libi, Nightshade) and Jeroen Scholten van Aschat (De Libi, Fenix). El-Hamus will also direct the film. The film tells the story of Richie Rich and his journey to becoming […]
Sky has announced nine new Sky original documentaries and factual shows ahead of the launch of its new factual channels, Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature. The new feature length documentaries and series include definitive biographies of Stephen Hawking with unrivalled access to his friends and family, and Tina Turner with exclusive access to the star […]
Apple has announced Greatness Code, a short-form documentary series co-produced by Uninterrupted and Religion of Sports, and directed by Gotham Chopra. Greatness Code will debut globally on July 10th exclusively on Apple TV+. Apple says Greatness Code is “a landmark short-form unscripted series that spotlights untold stories from the greatest athletes in the world”. The […]