VOD365, a provider of branded OTT TV channels via Freeview, YouView, Freesat, mobile and smart TV devices, has acquired exclusive AVoD rights to the new Beatrix Potter series’ The Brompton Tales for its kids’channel, Ketchup. As part of the agreement, the Company has also picked up exclusive worldwide YouTube rights to the programme, which will […]
International content aggregation and dynamic digital distribution company Alchimie has acquired UK-based OTT provider, TV Player, suggesting the move will accelerate its entry into the UK – which it says is Europe’s most developed SVoD market – by introducing new UK distribution channels via the TV Player platform for Alchimie’s extensive portfolio of premium factual […]
Amazon Studios has signed an overall deal with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator and star of the Emmy Award-winning series, Fleabag. Waller-Bridge will create and produce new television content for Amazon Studios that will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories. Fleabag won six 2019 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, with […]
IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide, has released the Music Listening 2019 report, which examines the way in which music consumers aged 16 to 64 engage with recorded music across 21 countries. Report highlights: Music listening is up. Respondents typically spend 18 hours per week listening to music – up from […]
A French court ruling on in a case brought by the French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir against Valve found that purchasers of video games on Valve’s digital platform, Steam, are permitted to resell them. This ruling contradicts established EU law and should be overturned on appeal, according to the IFSE, which represents the interests of […]
The BBC has extended its broadcast deal with the European Tour ensuring coverage of one of the biggest events in the international golf calendar, the Ryder Cup, remains free to air until 2022. The 2020 contest in the US, held at Whistling Straits and the 2022 Ryder Cup at Marco Simone in Italy will be […]
Eleven Sports and Onefootball have partnered to bring live streaming of top European football fixtures to football fans in Belgium and Luxembourg. The partnership will begin this weekend with the Derby della Madonnina – AC Milan v Inter Milan – being made available on the Onefootball app as well as the Eleven Sports platform. Onefootball, […]
The licensees of the Red Bull public house in the Kentish village of Eccles, Jared Macdonnchadha, Richard Rodal and Karen Turner, have been convicted in their absence of three offences each of dishonest reception of a television transmission, in this case, Sky televised football matches, with the intent to avoid payment of the applicable charge. […]
Writer, director, and producer Nahnatchka Khan has signed a multi-year first look deal for feature films exclusively at Netflix. Khan made her feature film directorial debut with Always Be My Maybe. The film premiered on Netflix in May and was seen by some 32 million households in its first four weeks, and was praised […]
WarnerMedia’s upcoming SVoD service HBO Max has secured the exclusive streaming rights to The Big Bang Theory in a deal worth reportedly in excess of $1 billion. Having already acquired Friends for its streaming service, WarnerMedia has put a deal in place for the online rights to all 12 seasons (289 episodes) of The Big […]