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Sky’s Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom in cinemas this September

Sky has announced that the Sky Original film Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, will premiere in UK cinemas on September 18th. The movie sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s treasured pumpkin patch. When Shaun turns mad scientist to fix […]

June 24, 2026By Nik Roseveare

Roundhouse Comedy Festival 2026 announces Dropout’s UK debut

Acclaimed comedy streaming platform Dropout will make its first ever UK performance at the Roundhouse Comedy Festival 2026 with two of its most beloved live shows. Crowd Control (August 7th, 7:30pm) and Um, Actually (August 8th, 7:30pm) bring Dropout’s chaotic blend of improv, gameshow comedy and audience interaction to the iconic Roundhouse in Camden. Dropout […]

June 24, 2026

Netcracker expands engagement with Telenet’s B2B transformation programme

Netcracker Technology has announced that long-term customer Telenet, a provider of cable broadband services in Belgium, has expanded its partnership with Netcracker to include a significant B2B transformation programme supporting the operator’s long-term vision of consolidating B2C and B2B operations onto a single, unified digital platform. As part of this wide-ranging program, which is a […]

June 23, 2026

Glance, Samsung bring agentic commerce to US smart TVs

Glance, InMobi’s consumer technology company, is launching a first-to-market agentic commerce experience across millions of Samsung smart televisions in the US. The integration built on Glance’s proprietary AI platform runs natively on Samsung’s Tizen OS, turning the living room screen into a generative-AI-powered, interactive shopping experience. Glance’s proprietary platform enables two-way, interactive shopping on the […]

June 23, 2026

CTAM Europe announces 2027 dates for annual Executive Management Programme

CTAM Europe Co-Chairs Louise Cottrell, SVP Business Development, AMC Networks, Lukas Kernell, Partner, Shift-Happens.com and Owner, Luukse Zaken, have announced that the 2027 edition of the CTAM Europe programme will take place at the INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France. The dates are June 13th-18th, and registration is open now. Co-developed with INSEAD, the five-day […]

June 23, 2026

Culture Hive and Subjective launch agentic cultural optimisation

Culture Hive Media Group and Subjective has announced a new Cultural Relevance score (CRS) powered decisioning capability available through Index Marketplaces that shifts CTV campaigns from static audience setup to autonomous, culturally intelligent optimisation. Programmatic CTV is one of the fastest-growing channels in digital media, yet most campaigns still rely on static audience definitions and […]

June 23, 2026

Amazon Ads, Asda sign UK partnership

Asda has announced a new partnership with Amazon Ads to transform how brands reach and engage with millions of customers across its digital platforms, marking a significant step forward in the evolution of its retail media offering. Asda will become the first retailer anywhere outside of the US to introduce Amazon Retail Ad Service to […]

June 23, 2026

Fremantle lands France TV presale for An Hour on Earth

Fremantle and France TV have announced a presale of An Hour on Earth (w/t), a four-part series that captures the most critical moments in the day when the natural world bursts into life. Using pioneering seamless filming techniques, each episode explores the fleeting ‘magic hours’ when conditions are just right and animals spring into action. […]

June 23, 2026

Worldwide Pants, NBCUniversal partner with Merzigo for David Letterman show digital expansion

Worldwide Pants, the production company founded by David Letterman and owner of The Late Show with David Letterman library, and NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution, which owns the Late Night with David Letterman library, have partnered with Merzigo, the global media technology company powering the next era of premium content distribution and monetisation, to optimize both […]

June 23, 2026

Channel 4 reveals cast for Mog’s Bad Thing

Channel 4 has announced the cast of Mog’s Bad Thing, Lupus Films’ hand-drawn animated adaptation of Judith Kerr’s classic picture book of the same name. The special will air on Channel 4 this Christmas. Returning to the world of Mog are Adjoa Andoh (Bridgerton) as the Narrator, Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) as Mr Thomas, Claire […]

June 23, 2026