Telefónica (Movistar+) has reached a major agreement with UEFA for the broadcasting of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League until the 2023/2024 season. The top European football club competitions will continue to be part of La Casa del Fútbol in this new cycle. It is assumed the competition will go ahead as […]
Sports TV channel group Eleven Sports and Spanish multimedia company Mediapro are joining forces on a series of strategic international projects to support the growth of both groups worldwide. With the sports media industry heavily impacted by Covid-19 over the past few months, the pair will be looking to pull together their expertise and capabilities […]
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, has announced an agreement to license popular Paramount movies and TV shows from the ViacomCBS library. Hit series including Ray Donovan, The Affair, Charmed, Undercover Boss, The Game, Everybody Hates Chris and Real Husbands of Hollywood will be available to stream on Peacock with the launch of the service on July 15th in the US – and will […]
Mad Men has found a new streaming home. From July 15th, all seven seasons of the multi-award winning drama starring Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss — which were previously available on Netflix until June of this year — will stream for free, with commercials, on the Amazon-owned IMDb TV. IMDb TV is currently only available […]
UKTV has acquired three brand new US drama series from the ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group for leading crime drama channel Alibi – dark comedy Why Women Kill, psychological mystery series Evil, and political, family drama Tommy. The deal was brokered by UKTV’s head of acquisitions Emma Sparks and ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group’s Matt Downer. Sparks […]
Insight TV has signed a content licensing deal with China’s video streaming giant iQIYI. With over 560 million monthly active users, of which 106 million are subscribers, iQIYI is China’s leading video streaming service. Insight TV’s content will be available on all of iQIYI’s ad-supported tier operated platforms, websites, and its affiliated companies. Under the […]
A Range Rover Sport SVR V8 and an Audi A5 convertible were amongst items seized from an address in the northwest England town of Lytham, after police officers executed a search warrant in connection with fraud and money laundering, as part of an investigation into the provision of illegal TV streaming devices and services, which […]
Eleven Sports and the Pro League have reached an agreement on the new media contract for the coming five years. As exclusive rights holder, Eleven will air the rights of all Pro League competitions for the next five seasons (2020-2025): 1A, 1B, Women Super League, the Cup league, the Super Cup, and the E-Pro League. […]
Disney has confirmed that, from October 1st, its Disney+ D2C service will be the exclusive UK home for content from Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney Junior – effectively ending the carriage of the linear channels by UK pay-TV platforms BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media. “The direct-to-consumer service, which garnered more that 54.5 million […]
ITV Studios’ award-winning format Come Dine With Me has been acquired by OSN, an entertainment network in the Arabic region. The popular British reality show that is celebrating its 15-year anniversary this year has already been licensed to more than 40 countries, with over 14000 episodes produced globally. The Arabic version, Yalla Neta’asha, will be […]