Sky Studios has acquired a 24.9 per cent stake in True to Nature (TTN), a UK’s producer of natural history programmes. Bristol-based TTN was founded in 2016 by former Head of the BBC Natural History Unit, Dr Wendy Darke. Despite only being three years old, TTN is already delivering a number of premium factual series […]
Chinese media group StarTimes is putting 200 million Kenyan shillings (€172m) into new Kenyan programming. StarTimes CEO Andy Wang told journalists in Nairobi that StarTimes the investment is for the development of Rembo TV to air content “developed by Kenyans for Kenyans”. The channel will also be beamed to Tanzania and Uganda both on DTH […]
Following the success of BBC Click’s personalised, interactive episode, the Corporation’s R&D team is continuing to explore object-based formats powered by its StoryKit tool. For its latest project, it commissioned independent production company Spirit to produce Instagramifaction, a documentary about the good, the bad and the ugly of the world’s fastest-growing social network. Following research […]
Amazon Prime Video has secured global rights to Truth Seekers from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Miles Ketley’s UK based production company Stolen Picture. This new UK produced Amazon Original comedy horror series will launch exclusively on the Prime Video streaming service in over 200 countries and territories. Truth Seekers is a horror comedy series about […]
DAZN, the OTT sport service, has announced a new interview series, The Making Of, which relives the significant games that helped define football’s greatest modern icons, featuring global superstars Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr and legendary football manager José Mourinho. The 9 x 25’ series takes an immersive, in-depth look into their career-defining games. Each superstar […]
ITV Studios’ stable of global entertainment formats has grown with the acquisition of Israeli format creator and distributor, Armoza Formats. Founded by Avi Armoza, one of Israel’s leading television developers and distributors, Armoza’s catalogue numbers over 100 formats. This includes the prime time singing show The Four, commissioned in over 15 territories and game show […]
While Netflix caught the attention of the TV world last year when it ended HBO’s 18-year stretch of earning the most Emmy nominations, this year, HBO reclaimed the spot with 137 nominations to Netflix’s 117. But how much did each spend to earn such success? Kill the Cable Bill, providers of industry trend analysis, crunched the numbers for […]
Netflix and WWE are partnering for a live-action family series called The Big Show Show. The comedy will feature WWE superstar Paul Wight, better known as The Big Show. Netflix is contracted for ten episodes. The elevator pitch for the show says: “When the teenage daughter of The Big Show, a retired world-famous WWE Superstar, […]
Insight TV, the 4K UHD HDR broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, is creating two music series with the world-famous music festival Tomorrowland as its backdrop. The stylish 4K HDR productions will focus on the antics of the people who come back to this fairytale festival year after year, as well as the globally […]
WarnerMedia has announced that the new professional wrestling organisation, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), will launch a weekly show in the US on October 2nd. The two-hour broadcast will air on TNT and take place in different cities across the US every Wednesdas, starting in Washington, D.C., at the famed Capital One Arena. There is no […]