Multinational cable, fibre, telecommunications, content and media company Altice has revealed its intention to strengthen further its industrial and operational strategy following its transformation into a leading transatlantic communications and media group with the closing of the acquisition of Cablevision. Altice plans to make its core strategic, operational and technical capabilities available to its subsidiaries […]
In advance of Labor Day on September 5, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has released new statistics on the film and television industry’s economic impact in all 50 US states, with the findings, shared by Julia Jenks, Vice President, Worldwide Research, indicating that in total, the film and television industry supports 1.9 million […]
BBC Three’s upcoming premiere of the BBC Worldwide-commissioned five-part digital-first travelogue cum photography series Mission Selfie, marks the commercial arm of the BBC’s debut with content specifically produced for online and mobile platforms in order to target younger audiences. Fronted by social media stars Ben Brown and Steve Booker, the series explodes the shallowness of […]
Australian broadcaster Seven has invested in UK production company Slim Film + Television – responsible for shows including include BBC2’s Legacy and Channel 4’s The Art of Foley. It was founded in 2011 by Simon Crawford Collins (Spooks, Ashes to Ashes, Hustle). Seven has previously invested in UK indie 7 Wonder. Simon Crawford Collins, Founder […]
Change.org, the global platform for social change, has announced a partnership with cloud-based video creation platform Wochit that will help the organisation to accelerate production and distribution of socially-optimised video. The deal is part of Change.org’s strategy to increase social impact by leveraging online video’s ability to drive higher engagement and build stronger emotional connections […]
Channel 4’s former head of specialist factual David Glover and Dragonfly’s joint MD Mark Raphael have established a new independent production company 72 Films, which is being backed by the BBC’s commercial and international arm, BBC Worldwide. BBC Worldwide has taken a 15 per cent shareholding in the indie and in return will receive global […]
The head of the FX channel, John Landgraf, speaking at a Television Critics Association event hosted by FX on August 9th, said that of some 500 original scripted series that the channel’s research department was aware of, by FX’s count Netflix has 71 of those series in its planning, and this excludes foreign language productions. […]
NBCUniversal and Snapchat have announced a multi-year content and advertising partnership through which NBCUniversal will produce original episodic shows for the mobile messaging app. The NBCUniversal partnership will significantly expand Snapchat’s existing partner portfolio, which currently includes content and coverage from media and entertainment brands around the world. NBCUniversal is one of the first partners […]
The BBC has launched BBC Sport 360, an experimental service bringing Rio 2016 live and on-demand to UK audiences in 360 degree video for the first time. Armchair sports fans can get closer than ever to the Olympics action and enjoy a new perspective on a range of live sports, including the opening and closing […]
Baroness (Lucy) Neville-Rolfe has retained her responsibility for Intellectual Property following her promotion to Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in the Government reorganisation of mid-July 2016. She previously handled the brief as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary jointly with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the former Department […]