Following successful legal action taken by Sky, Andrew Smith, the licensee of Lamb Inn in the UK Midland town of Stone has been found to be infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports without having the required commercial agreement. Smith was ordered to pay damages in the sum of £18,539.24 (€22,000) plus interest of £247.19 […]
Netflix and Alexander Woo have signed an overall deal for scripted series programming and other projects. Woo will work with Netflix to develop, write and produce content across drama and science fiction genres. Woo is a playwright, screenwriter, and writer/producer for television. He most recently served as co-creator, showrunner and executive producer of the AMC […]
Discovery Kids Media (DKM) has announced that Big Top Academy will stream on Hulu in the US and air on the Sony Pictures Television (SPT) POP network across the UK. Both Hulu and SPT acquired rights to Season 1 and 2 of the live-action series. DKM is Discovery International’s recently created unit charged with developing, […]
BBC Studios and U-NEXT, an SVoD platform in Japan, have signed a multi-year output deal. Under the agreement, U-NEXT will have access to more than 3,000 episodes of localised titles, including episodes of Luther, Death in Paradise, Father Brown (pictured) and Top Gear, with the potential for this number to grow. It is the first […]
Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic streaming company, has extended its exclusive pan-Nordic media rights to German Bundesliga football until 2025. Under the new agreement, NENT Group will show more than 300 live Bundesliga games on its Viaplay streaming service every season and selected games on its linear TV channels. The deal also includes […]
StarzPlay, the SVoD service, has announced a partnership with production company Fremantle. The agreement includes Fremantle’s Euston Films bold crime series Baghdad Central, written and created by the BAFTA-nominated writer Stephen Butchard and based on the novel by Elliott Colla. The deal also features the epic drama The Luminaries, starring Eva Green and Eve Hewson, […]
ITV Studios’ and Motion Content Group’s record-breaking format Love Island has been commissioned by Antena in Romania, which becomes the 15th territory to broadcast a local version. Last year it also launched in Belgium, Netherlands, Poland and Hungary. It has run for three series in Germany, two in Australia and Norway, and has also been […]
StarzPlay, the Starz platform’s international streaming service, has entered a theatrical output deal with entertainment studio Lionsgate for split first pay streaming rights in the UK to Lionsgate’s recently released and upcoming feature films. Under the multi-year agreement, StarzPlay subscribers in the UK will be able to access Lionsgate first-run movies including the blockbuster original […]
Portuguese FTA broadcaster TVI has acquired the rights to air 22 live matches from this summer’s Euro 2020 football tournament in a sublicensing deal with pay-TV network SportTV. TVI will broadcast all of Portugal’s matches, as well as nine group stage games, four round of 16 game, both semi-finals and the final. The network will […]
Communications company and sports and news-focused live TV streaming service fuboTV have agreed a video streaming distribution and technology partnership that they say advances how content can be delivered and consumed in-flight. The partnership claims to be the first to leverage technology standards from the global technical association, the Streaming Video Alliance, and apply them […]