Eleven Sports has secured live and exclusive coverage of the Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr rematch in Belgium, Portugal and Taiwan. Joshua will be fighting to reclaim the IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles from ‘The Destroyer’ in Saudi Arabia on December 7th. Eleven Sports viewers will be able to experience every moment […]
Netflix entered into a multi-year content distribution agreement with JTBC Content Hub, the content arm of South Korean media company JTBC. Starting in 2020, the partnership will allow Netflix to stream JTBC’s prime-time TV dramas across more than 190 countries. With the new deal, JTBC and Netflix will co-develop and showcase JTBC’s prime-time TV drama […]
BBC Three has acquired the UK rights from Warner Bros Television for the comedy series Shrill. The first season will be available as a boxset on BBC iPlayer from December 15th. The series stars Aidy Bryant (of Saturday Night Live fame) as Annie, an overweight young woman who wants to change her life – but […]
At The Races (ATR) has agreed a multi-year turnover based streaming and data deal with Betfred, commencing January 2020. The deal covers the delivery of streaming and raceday data (which ATR sells as licensee for its racecourse rights holders) across ATR’s UK horseracing content and shifts the pricing of that product from a pence per […]
Aardman Studios, the celebrated British production house behind the likes of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun The Sheep, has ended a longstanding relationship with the BBC and is working on a new short movie exclusively for Netflix. The new movie – a 30 minute musical – is entitled Robin Robin and will tell the story […]
Channel 4 will be the new home of Taskmaster, with a six series deal across three years agreed with Avalon. New episodes will arrive on Channel 4 and E4 from late 2020. The game show hosted by Greg Davies as the ‘Taskmaster’, alongside Alex Horne as his assistant, sets out to test the wiles, wit […]
Pro-copyright education body The Industry Trust for IP Awareness and Universal Pictures International UK + Eire have launched an exclusive bespoke Cats trailer featuring the star-studded cast of James Corden, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson and Taylor Swift. This is the first bespoke trailer The Industry Trust has launched for a musical movie, with […]
StarzPlay, the SVoD service from Starz, has acquired the DC superhero drama Doom Patrol. All 15 episodes of the first season will launch exclusively in the UK on January 2nd 2020. The series reimagines one of DC’s most beloved group of Superheroes; Robotman aka Cliff Steele (played by Brendan Fraser), Negative Man aka Larry Trainor […]
IMPACT Wrestling, a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment, has announced a new multi-year television deal which will make e.tv the home of IMPACT Wrestling across more than 50 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The exclusive broadcast deal will showcase IMPACT Wrestling’s flagship weekly shows IMPACT! and Xplosion, plus four annual pay-per-views, its new IMPACT Plus […]
Sky Sports will become the exclusive live broadcaster of Masters tournament in the UK. The new agreement, which begins in 2020, will now extend the partnership into its second decade. It means the BBC will not show any live golf next year for the first time since 1955 after the broadcaster lost the rights to […]