On the heels of the release of Murder Mystery, Adam Sandler’s most popular Netflix film to date, the streaming service has extended its deal with the Hollywood actor and Happy Madison Productions to make four more exclusive films. Netflix has revealed that over two billion hours have been spent by its members watching Sandler’s movies […]
ITV Studios has confirmed that long-running quiz show The Chase, has been commissioned by TVE-owned LA1 in Spain, becoming the 14th territory to order the show. The show will be produced by Mediacrest. It is also to return in Israel on KAN 11, where last year it won the award for Best Game Show at […]
Official figures published the Research and Statistics Unit of the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image, reveal the highest spend ever on film and high-end television production in the UK in 2019. This includes high levels of international production investment underlining the UK’s global reputation as the world-leading centre […]
One Piece, one of the biggest-selling Manga series of all time, is to be made into a live-action TV series by Netflix. The streaming platform has partnered with Tomorrow Studios and Japanese publisher Shueisha to bring the pirate adventure story to audiences around the world in a 10 episode series. The original Manga, written by […]
Following another year of rapid development which saw major content owners launch direct to consumer services, and pay-TV operators forge new partnerships, broadcaster innovation and even more investment in scripted content, senior media executives have forecast further growth in key areas throughout 2020, according to the annual Trends Survey from content consultancy 3Vision, which collates […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, is reorganising NENT Studios – its content production and distribution business that comprises 32 companies in 17 countries – into a new organisation focused on scripted drama production, both series and movies, and distribution. As part of the reorganisation, the unscripted production, branded entertainment and events […]
In an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt, RTL’s CEO Bernd Reichart says the broadcaster will invest €1 billion annually in new in-house productions. The cash will be for the broadcaster’s national FTA channel as well as its streaming service ‘TV Now’ and aiming to take on the likes of Netflix, Amazon and the other emerging […]
Amazon has announced three new Italian Amazon Original shows at its Prime Video Presents Italy showcase event, hosted at Hotel de la Ville in Rome by Head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke, Head of International Originals, James Farrell, Director of European Amazon Originals Georgia Brown and Head of Unscripted Originals series in Italy, Nicole Morganti. […]
Apple is in discussions to produce original podcasts related to programmes on its Apple TV+ streaming service, according to a Bloomberg report. Apple sent out a request for pitches last summer, asking podcast producers to pitch ideas for audio programmes with some connection to its shows – offering episode recaps, fan theories and the like. […]
Multichannel programmer UKTV has revealed that its network grew by 4 per cent in 2019, with its flagship comedy channel, Dave, ranked number one non-PSB channel for 16-34s. Bumper viewing over the festive period contributed to driving Share of Commercial Impacts (SoCI) to 7.76 per cent for 2019, versus 7.48 per cent for 2018. Following […]