The UK’s creative industries made a record contribution to the economy in 2017, smashing through the £100 billion (€112.74bn) mark, according to figures published by the Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS). Its value of the creative industries to the UK is up from £94.8 billion in 2016 to £101.5 billion, and has […]
In an exclusive interview with Advanced-Television, Pierre Branco, Cartoon Network’s Senior Vice President & General Manager, Northern Europe, has given an insight into the company’s content and distribution strategy as the popular kids pay-TV channel marks its 25th anniversary. “For the past 25 years, kids in the UK have been raised watching our channel with […]
Netflix and The Roald Dahl Story Company have jointly announced that Netflix is extending the Roald Dahl universe of stories for global family audiences with an exclusive new slate of original animated event series, based on the books from the acclaimed author’s library, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Twits, and […]
GolfTV, the upcoming streaming service from Discovery, has signed up Tiger Woods to a multi-year global relationship. A statement from Discovery said the two will collaborate on a “wide range of programming, content creation and storytelling opportunities” that will help fill out the library for the on-demand and live gold matches. Discovery earlier this year […]
BBC Research & Development has launched a new interactive drama for Amazon Alexa – The Unfortunates – a reworked version of a BBC Radio 3 play, starring Martin Freeman, and is based on the experimental 1969 ‘book in a box’ by BS Johnson. The book was designed to be read in a random order, and […]
Barclays Corporate Banking is doubling its SVoD fund to support UK TV producers to £200 million (€224m). The £100 million fund was launched in March 2017 in response to the rapidly evolving TV production landscape, with the rise of subscription services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video changing the way that original programming is […]
BT Group’s EE and BT Sport have demonstrated the first live broadcast with remote production over 5G – an approach BT Sport will use to increase the coverage available to viewers with more matches and faster highlights. The pair partnered to showcase the capability by delivering a live, two-way broadcast over 5G from Wembley Stadium […]
Anne Mensah is joining Netflix as Vice President of Content, leading the scripted series content team focused on British productions. Mensah, who has most recently served as Director of Drama at Sky Studios and was formerly a longtime BBC executive, comes to Netflix as it continues to invest in local programming across the UK, Europe […]
Channel 4 News has formed a partnership with Facebook to produce Uncovered – a weekly news show exclusively for Facebook Watch. Scheduled to launch early next year, Uncovered will be an in-depth news and analysis programme from Channel 4 News’ team of correspondents, who will go beyond the headlines to tackle the stories that often […]
Sir David Attenborough will serve as the voice of upcoming Netflix original documentary series Our Planet, which will premiere on Netflix on April 5th 2019. The series has been created in collaboration with Silverback Films, whose director Alastair Fothergill was the creator of the acclaimed BBC series Planet Earth and Blue Planet series, and WWF, […]