Netflix has announced its first Korean original series Love Alarm, which will be adapted from the web-series by Kye Young Chon, a popular South Korean comic author. The story revolves around an unknown developer releasing an app that will tell the user if someone within 10 metres has romantic feelings for them, which greatly disrupts […]
Disney’s ABC Television Group (DATG) and Snap have announced an agreement through which DATG will produce original episodic shows for multimedia mobile app Snapchat in the US. ABC’s reality series The Bachelor will be DATG’s first brand to co-produce a series with Snapchat for Discover, with its first episode debuting on January 3rd – the […]
The Australian Copyright Council – an independent, non-profit organisation which represents the trade bodies for professional artists and content creators working in Australia’s creative industries and Australia’s major copyright collecting societies – has criticised the Productivity Commission’s Final Report on Intellectual Property Arrangements, suggesting it ignores evidence demonstrating the potential cost and damage to Australia’s […]
BBC Studios, the BBC’s TV production arm, has secured approval to launch as a commercial subsidiary and make programmes for other broadcasters and customers. Following an extensive regulatory assessment and public consultation, the BBC Trust has formally approved the proposals, which are supported by Government and Ofcom. The BBC says in an increasingly competitive market, […]
TIM (Telecom Italia) will accelerate the rollout out of quadruple play services by starting production of premium content for ultra-broadband. The company also plans to spin-off the activities of its on-demand TV service TIMvision. The new company’s mission will be to present a video offer enriched with original premium content produced and co-produced both nationally […]
Qualcomm Technologies has worked with Lionsgate, a premier next generation global content leader, to power the Power Rangers Virtual Reality (VR) experience at the 2017 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The VR experience powered by the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 flagship processor is based on Lionsgate’s Saban’s Power Rangers, the feature film […]
In a collaboration designed to connect fans to the Olympic Movement all year round, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and NBCUniversal have created a comprehensive Olympic Channel content and distribution partnership in the US. During the second half of 2017, the partnership will launch a new US television network […]
Netflix is pulling the plug on Marco Polo, its high budget 13th-century drama after only two seasons. Netflix does not disclose ratings, so it’s unknown how poorly Marco Polo did. But reviews were mostly negative, and there was no viral momentum built up. Originally developed for Starz, it was produced by the Weinstein Company, and […]
The BBC has launched its first virtual reality (VR) production on the Oculus store. The film, We Wait, is a dramatised depiction of migrants making the perilous journey from Turkey to Greece on smugglers’ boat Produced by BBC Connected Studio in collaboration with Aardman Digital, We Wait uses animation to bring to life real accounts […]
Youth media company and content creation studio Vice and the UK publisher the Guardian have struck a new content partnership that will provide Vice with access to original investigative news reporting from a unit of dedicated Guardian journalists, and the Guardian with access to Vice’s video production skills, distribution platform and a young engaged audience. […]