BBC Research & Development’s (R&D) experimental The Turning Forest VR fairy tale launches next week for Daydream, Google’s mobile VR offering available free to all audiences. The Turning Forest is an enchantingly-surreal VR story produced by BBC R&D in collaboration with virtual reality production studio VRTOV. In a magical forest, a young child stares into […]
The Simpsons has been renewed for two more seasons, meaning it will break the record for most episodes of any scripted television show in US history. Twenty First Century Fox has confirmed that the show will run until at least 2019. The Simpsons is currently in its 28th season, with just over 600 episodes aired. […]
Vice Media’s channel Viceland will launch in France on November 23rd exclusively on Canal+. Aimed at young adults aged from 16 to 34, and covering all their potential cultural interests such as music, technology, gaming and environmental issues, the new channel will be available on all TV devices, via the myCanal app, and on Canal […]
Edge Investments, the specialist investment house focused on the creative industries sector, has revealed it will invest up to £10 million (€11.2m) in the thriving UK television production industry. Joanna Smith, Investment Manager at Edge commented: “We want to meet television production management teams who are looking for a pure equity investor focused on growth […]
The New York Times and Samsung Electronics America have launched The Daily 360, a visual digital journalism project produced by The Times newsroom, that will deliver at least one 360° video every day, enabling viewers to see the news from all angles. Samsung is providing Gear 360 cameras and equipment to Times journalists around the […]
Discovery Communications has announced the worldwide release of its scripted 360° VR production Haunted Castle, a short horror film shot at the famed Corvin Castle in Transylvania, Romania, one of the largest Gothic-Renaissance castles in Europe. The initiative is part of Discovery’s continuous investment in VR, with the purpose of engaging fans and immersing them […]
Richard Frankland, VP Sales EMEA, explains Irdeto’s holistic, 360 degree approach to security with examples from Europe and the US demonstrating an ecosystem approach that provides protection from inception to display, from ‘glass to glass.’ [bitsontherun xwnyBCzb-hLYU43gg]
While the saying goes that everyone has a book in them, Nick Fraser – the creative force behind award winning documentaries such as Man On Wire and Blackfish – believes the same applies to documentaries. He has pledged to commission 125 films from original ideas in one year. The films will join the ever expanding […]
Video news service Newstag is to launch a business-to-business news service designed to offer online publishers and telcos bespoke, broadcast-quality ready-to-air news programmes. ‘Newsreel’ will provide tailored news bulletins using professionally-produced video content that is curated by audiences. Using big data and machine learning, the result will be to provide top quality news programmes targeted […]
There’s to be a mini-series about Roger Ailes the legendary news executive who founded Fox News but has had to quit after a flurry of sexual harassment allegations . Tom McCarthy – whose movie Spotlight, about journalists breaking the Catholic church sex abuse stories – has apparently been attached to the project, which was announced […]