Abu Dhabi’s growing global reputation as a production and content creation hub was the focus of a MIPCOM panel, featuring media services specialist twofour54’s Paul Baker, executive director of its Film and TV Services. Baker shared the stage with fellow Abu Dhabi content creators to shed light on Abu Dhabi’s media and entertainment evolution, including […]
Scripps Networks Interactive and TVN have joined up for their first programming agreement since Scripps Networks acquired the leading Polish broadcaster earlier this year. TVN has secured the format rights to create a Polish version of DIY Network’s popular home improvement series Kitchen Crashers. The Polish version of the series will be titled Polowanie na […]
Viacom will open a two-stage, 88,000 square foot, state-of-the-art production facility in Miami, Florida. The new studio, which was built by the Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) as a public-private partnership with EUE/Screen Gems Studios, will serve as a production hub for Viacom’s global entertainment brands including Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central. “We are […]
Seasoned TV executive Sophie Turner Laing has declared a ‘Golden Age’ of television, suggesting that technology, rather than threatening the content industry, is enabling more to be seen by more people. Delivering a Media Mastermind keynote speech at MIPCOM, Turner Laing – CEO of global production force Endemol Shine – highlighted the formation of Icon, […]
Netflix has confirmed its first original series from Italy, entitled Suburra. The series is to be produced by Italian producer, Cattelya, in collaboration with Italian public service broadcaster, Rai. Suburra, which translates to “slums,” will be a 10-episode crime series set on the Roman coast, and will tell the story of a battle over a seaside town near Rome that […]
Global production and distribution group Red Arrow Entertainment and Japanese commercial broadcaster Nippon TV have announced a new co-development partnership. The deal will enable Nippon TV and Red Arrow to work closely together to develop brand new entertainment and reality formats for the international market. The first project to have emerged from the partnership will […]
BBC Worldwide has strengthened its partnership with All3Media Germany, in the jointly-owned production company Tower Productions by combining both format catalogues into one definitive collection. Production will continue solely under the Tower Productions brand, which will have exclusive access to both BBC Worldwide’s and All3Media’s catalogues of non-scripted formats. MME (Me, Myself & Eye Entertainment) […]
@IBC 2015 Advanced Television visits Ralf Jacob, Chief Revenue Officer of Verizon Digital Media Services, to hear about their 72 hour challenge – taking your content and turning it into a fully-fledged OTT TV service in just 72 hours. [bitsontherun rkdr8oPq-ni7dlelE]
According to Netflix, it may have taken Walter White nearly an entire season to become Heisenberg and Frank Underwood 13 episodes to become VP, but it turns out fans committed to these series long before those plot twists unfolded. Netflix analysed its global streaming data across the inaugural seasons of some of today’s most popular […]
Cable TV industry players in Japan are joining forces to offer a national channel dedicated to 4K Ultra-high definition programming set for launch in December, according to Nikkei. The 39 initial participants include J:COM and KDDI, with the aim of expanding this to some 370. The Japan Cable and Telecommunications Association is calling for content […]