Channel 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox are partnering to remake Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans, marking the first time games a console maker has partnered with a UK broadcaster to co-fund a major series. The deal will see Channel 4 air the drama exclusively in the UK in 2015 at the same time as Microsoft makes […]
Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge will return with a new series on Sky, as well as a big screen sequel, its makers have confirmed. Henry Normal, co-founder of Coogan’s production company Baby Cow, said a sequel to the fictional Norfolk DJ’s film début, last year’s Alpha Papa, was in the pipeline, along with a new series […]
Factual channel specialist Discovery is launching a new programming model, New Form, and linking with the creative expertise of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment to turn out new content. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is expected to make a formal announcement April 3rd, but the concept is to appeal to younger viewers who are […]
Larrikin Entertainment, the media production company founded last year by Greg Coote and David Calvert-Jones, has partnered with Emmy, Peabody and WGA award-winning writer/producer Dan Angel (Door to Door, R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, Goosebumps) and TV industry veteran Tom Mazza to form EveryWhere Studios. The newly-launched entertainment company will be dedicated to the production […]
ITV’s commercial boss Simon Daglish has warned big brands that want to become programme makers that “90 per cent of advertiser made content is crap”. Daglish told the Ad Week Europe conference in London that most consumers “don’t give a stuff” about brands. “Most people do not want a one-to-one relationship with a brand,” he […]
Thomson Video Networks is to debut TimePlanner, a new application that is part of the XMS Network Management System, at the 2014 NAB Show. Enabling the scheduling and automation of complex service plan changes, TimePlanner not only gives XMS users the flexibility they need to manage rapid service plan changes, but also greatly simplifies headend […]
Walt Disney Company is buying Maker Studios, a major supplier of video content to YouTube, for $500 million. Disney also agreed to pay as much as $450 million more if Maker Studios meets “strong” performance targets. With Maker Studios, Disney is following DreamWorks Animation into an online video business with expanding audiences but little profit. […]
Consumer electronics giant Samsung has secured a JV output deal from Twentieth Century Fox in which the Hollywood studio’s films will be available in 4K/Ultra-HD on Samsung’s ‘Smart TVs’. Additionally, Samsung and 20th Century Fox’s Home Entertainment division will also add movies such as “Night at the Museum,” “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and “The Counselor” onto […]
Sony has confirmed it is developing original TV shows for its PlayStation video game consoles. The first show, Powers, will be based on a graphic novel about a detective dealing with a world full of people with God-like powers. Sony’s TV division is producing the show. In America, Powers will be exclusively available on Playstation […]
FX Networks and BSkyB have signed a development deal for half-hour scripted comedies. The two-year agreement will see them co-fund and co-develop series to air on both sides of the Atlantic. Sky said the comedies would be “post-watershed,” and the pact would look to create shows in the same vein as FX’s Louie and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. […]