France Télévisions, along with French producer La Vingt-Cinquième Heure, is creating a 360° VR experience based around French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. The experience will feature two short-form 360° programmes (2 x 15min). These short documentaries, collectively called Dans la peau de Thomas Pesquet (In the Life of Thomas Pesquet) will chronicle the daily life of […]
The proliferation of pay-TV operators in Spain, and the increasingly growth of their penetration in the market, are boosting domestic TV production, easing the creation of new TV producers and opening a new exploitation window for traditional linear TV companies, such as Mediaset and Atresmedia. Atresmedia, operator of Antena 3 and La Sexta among others, […]
More than nine hundred delegates gathered at the 20th Cartoon Movie animation forum in Bordeaux last week. Initiated in 1999 with the help of Creative Europe -the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Cartoon Movie has obtained huge positive results: more than 301 animated features presented since the start have found their financing, which represents […]
French production group Lagardère Studios has taken a majority stake in Dutch TV production company Skyhigh TV. The move follows the acquisition of Boomerang TV in Spain and Aito Media Group in Finland respectively in 2015 and 2017. Created in 1999, Skyhigh TV is owned by founder Marc Dik, Wilfred Drechsler and Bernard van den […]
Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are said to be in talks with Netflix to produce shows for the online streaming giant, according to a report in the New York Times. The couple would make exclusive content for the US streaming site focused on uplifting stories. The deal would give a global […]
With ownership of TV programming rights becoming a vital asset in the international TV market, production company mergers and acquisitions have continued to rise over the past five years. This type of activity has grown at a 19.4 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), increasing from 42 deals in 2013 to 102 deals in […]
Disney has revealed that Jon Favreau has been appointed to write and executively produce a new live-action Star Wars TV series. The director of The Iron Man and Jungle Book – who has also portrated the character ‘Happy Hogan’ in a number of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, as well as once having a key role […]
Mediapro has struck Spanish TV production deals with OTT platforms Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO, as well as DirecTV and Fox. The media group is launching TV Series Edha, a 13 episode drama, and also producing Fe de Etarras y Una y no más exclusively for Netflix and. It is also producing Six Dreams for […]
Abu Dhabi-based TV and movie production facility ‘twofour54’ is building a new 300,000 sq m backlot and new studio development at Mina Zayed to expand those already in place at twofour54’s Yas Island base. “Following the success Abu Dhabi has achieved in attracting film and TV productions from Hollywood, Bollywood, and the Arab World, twofour54’s […]
Following recent DoJ clearance in the US and other regulatory acceptances, Discovery Communications has confirmed the successful completion its $14.6 billion (€12.4bn) acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive. Moving forward, the combined company will be officially known as simply: Discovery, Inc. “Today marks another critical milestone for Discovery, as we become a differentiated kind of media […]