Sky Deutschland Fernsehen, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sky Deutschland, has agreed with Constantin Sport to acquire 100 per cent of its production company PlazaMedia as well as a 25.1 per cent equity stake in Sport1 and Constantin Sport Marketing. The total purchase price will amount to around €57.5 million. Brian Sullivan, CEO of Sky […]
The rapid take-up of digital film and TV among people of all ages is creating a growing need for copyright education, according to speakers at the AGM of pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness. Liz Bales, Director-General of the Industry Trust, who addressed Trust members and industry partners at the event, […]
Internet television network Netflix has confirmed that the second season of its award-winning drama series House of Cards will premiere on February 14th 2014. As with the first season, all 13 episodes will be available for members to watch instantly in all territories where Netflix is available. In the summer of 2013, for its first […]
StudioCanal has taken a majority stake in UK independent producer, Red Production Company. Since its creation in 1998 Red has produced some of the UK’s most popular and critically acclaimed drama series including Queer as Folk for Channel 4, and the double BAFTA-winning Last Tango in Halifax, which returns to BBC One for a second […]
Analysis of Sky’s October viewing figures reveals that Karl Pilkington, The Moaning of Life, is Sky 1 HD’s biggest show of the year so far. The series launched with a total audience of nearly 2.5 million, with around 200,000 watching through Sky Go. Writing in the Sky Views blog, Stuart Murphy, Director, Entertainment Channels, said […]
We are all headed to an IP driven multi-screen world. The irony is that this enables more and better services – and therefore the opportunity for providers to monetise subscribers in more and better ways – and yet these services are delivered by a process that is intrinsically ‘best efforts’. Because of variable bandwidths in […]
The UK’s status as an international centre for broadcasting and television production is on the ascendancy supported by growth of the multichannel sector now worth £5 billion a year with broadcasters drawn by the UK’s creative flair and production capability, according to a new report compiled by Communications Chambers, a leading media consultancy, on behalf […]
Pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness and Warner Bros. Pictures UK are teaming up to launch an exclusive trailer for The LEGO Movie, which details the many ingredients that go into making a movie experience worth paying for. Running across UK and Irish cinemas, digital, outdoor and social media for three […]
London Live, the new entertainment TV channel for London, has commissioned three new series; two factual entertainment lifestyle and one entertainment as well as a run of comedy pilots to kick start the programming slate for its Spring 2014 launch. The channel’s Head of Programming, Jonathan Boseley, has commissioned Jamie Oliver’s Fresh One to make […]
Sony is making what it calls a “significant” shift into producing more quality TV shows, such as its popular drama Breaking Bad, and is moving away from blockbuster films as part of a drive to save $250 million. Sony said it will make around 18 movies a year instead of 23 at its Columbia Studios […]