Amazon has greenlit a McLaren racing documentary series. The Amazon Original Unscripted Series will give unprecedented access to the McLaren racing team as it competes in the 2017 FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The as-yet untitled series will be a global release and available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video for members to watch via the […]
UK broadcast industry professional media network Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has released the first ever assessment of where broadcasters, producers and suppliers can expect to see the greatest return on investment from committing to IP-based production. The DPP Survey Report: The Business Benefits of IP Production is the result of extensive research with companies from […]
DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), the home entertainment trade association, has announced the addition of five new member companies: Broad Green Pictures, Ericsson, FandangoNOW, The Great Courses, and Premiere Digital. “The DEG welcomes its five new member companies, all of whom represent a key part of our industry,” said Amy Jo Smith, President, DEG. […]
Media commentator Andrew Neil has suggested that SVoD services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime are now better placed to be major disruptors in the broadcasting industry, a scenario he had discounted a year previously. Delivering an Industry Overview at the SES Satellite Monitor Conference in London, Neil admitted that at the 2016 event, he […]
BBC America has ordered its own US version of hit UK motoring show Top Gear, according to the Hollywood Reporter. It marks the third such attempt to try and make the show work in the US. Eight episodes of what will be entitled Top Gear America will be fronted by Hollywood actor William Fichtner, whose […]
4Sales – the ad sales arm of UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 – has revealed the first ever 360° interactive VoD ad format that will allow viewers of its All 4 VoD service to immerse themselves in advertisers’ creative. Launch partners Honda and South African Tourism are the first brands to take advantage of Ad […]
UK commercial broadcaster ITV will produce a daily highlights package of horse-racing action from this week’s Cheltenham Festival in Ultra HD and 360° video. The content will be posted at 7pm each day on ITV’s Facebook and YouTube pages during the festival (March 14th – March 17th). Production company VR City will capture the footage […]
According to Michael Boreham, Senior Consultant at Futuresource Consulting, SVoD uptake in China is being driven by the younger consumer group, with the market having huge potential for growth driven by the desire for premium content and as the generational shift in consumer behaviour adopts SVoD as the norm. In Boreham’s study – The Cultural […]
As the hype starts to build for Game of Thrones season 7, which launches in mid-July, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have revealed that the 8th and final season of the HBO fantasy-epic will be the shortest yet. Seasons 1 – 6 of the show consisted of 10 episodes each. Season 7 will consist […]
Netflix has confirmed that it is to co-produce three new series with the BBC and Canal+, according to a report in French business newspaper Les Echos. Netflix will reportedly co-produce The Spy with Canal+, and Troy: Fall of a City and Black Earth Rising with the BBC. Netflix invested $1.8 billion into licensed, original and […]