Italy’s Serie A has turned down Spanish group Mediapro’s bid for the football TV rights to the Italian League for the 2021-2024 period. With Eurosport also excluded, Sky and DAZN are the main remaining bidders. Sky has offered €750 million for the whole rights, whereas DAZN has submitted the highest bid for around €840 million […]
The Repco Supercars Championship has signed a content deal with YouTube. In the new partnership, fans living outside Australia and New Zealand will be able to sign up to SuperView via Supercars.com for $59.99 for a full year, or via YouTube for $5.99 a month. It makes Supercars the first Australian sport to utilise YouTube’s […]
Extreme E, the electric off-road racing series, has partnered with Digicel to broadcast live racing action, plus highlight shows and docu-series, across the Caribbean. The first race takes place in April in Saudi Arabia and will be shown on Digicel’s channels Catch 1 and 2, and on Sportsmax 1 and 2. Content will be aired […]
The BBC has acquired season one of The Terror from AMC Studios International. The series is inspired by true events and is a fictionalised account of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to the Arctic. It follows the Royal Navy’s perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced […]
Music-based entertainment Universal Music Group (UMG) and short-form video app TikTok have revealed a global agreement that they say delivers equitable compensation for recording artists and songwriters and significantly expands and enhances the companies’ existing relationship, promoting the development of new innovative experiences and the ability to forge deeper bonds between fans and the artists […]
The British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE), the body which represents the interests of publishers and rights-owners of pre-recorded filmed entertainment, has appointed Rob Marsh, Vice President Commercial (Home Entertainment) at Sony Pictures Entertainment, as the organisation’s new Chair announced with immediate effect. Marsh, who joined BASE Council in 2019, will serve as Chair alongside […]
Eleven Portugal has extended its partnership with France’s Ligue 1 for an additional three seasons, until 2023/24. Eleven will continue to be the exclusive home of France’s top tier in Portugal, as well as bringing fans the Trophée des Champions. In total, Eleven will deliver 381 French games a season live and exclusively across its […]
Electric off-road racing series, Extreme E, has announced its latest broadcast agreement with Israel’s Charlton TV. The Tel-Aviv-based station will televise Extreme E’s live races, plus the highlight shows, in Hebrew, on its pay-to-view Sport 1, Sport 2, Sport 3 and Sport 4 channels as well as its digital platform. Ali Russell, Chief Marketing Officer […]
Amazon Studios has ordered a TV adaptation of Jenny Han’s series of young adult novers The Summer I Turned Pretty. The eight-episode season will launch exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on a date TBC, and is a co-production of Amazon Studios and wiip. The Summer I Turned Pretty […]
Amazon and Michael B. Jordan’s production banner, Outlier Society, have enhanced their partnership, signing the Hollywood actor and his company into a first-look film deal and an overall television deal. Amazon said the deal will see Outlier “produce and acquire elevated films showcasing diverse, bold filmmakers and talent for the studio’s ever-growing original movies slate.” […]