A new pay-TV service is set to become available on the UK’s DTT platform for Freeview HD viewers with the launch this autumn of VuTV. VuTV will air on Freeview channel 238 and allow subscribers to enjoy a range of premium channels from established brands. A+E Networks, Viacom International Media Networks and Turner Broadcasting are […]
Amazon’s LOVEFiLM has made a content deal with Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN). The new shows will allow members of LOVEFiLM Instant in the UK access to VIMN’s broadcast portfolio – which includes MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. Chris Bird, Director of Content Strategy at LOVEFiLM, said: “We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of hundreds […]
New attitudes toward TV viewing have been identified in a new report from Ericsson ConsumerLab, the fourth annual report looking at consumer trends in the TV area. Among the new findings, 72 per cent of respondents say they use mobile devices to watch video at least weekly, and 42 per cent of them do so […]
Amazon Studios, the original movie and series production arm of Amazon.com, today announced that it is greenlighting a pilot for the original children’s series Maker Shack Agency, produced by Electus Studios (The Hero, Killer Women, and Get Out Alive). Maker Shack Agency follows the exploits of 13-year-old inventor Angus Wolfe, aka “Wolfie,” and his two […]
Audiences are demanding “complex, smart stories” as they become accustomed to “bingeing” on box sets, according to actor Kevin Spacey. He told TV executives at the Edinburgh Television Festival: “The audience wants control. They want freedom… what they want, when they want it. If they want to binge then we should let them binge.” In […]
Analysis of UK TV viewing figures for the first half of 2013 shows how people’s TV diet is developing as on-demand TV viewing becomes a more established part of people’s lives. According to Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK, total average daily TV viewing in the UK during January-June 2013 was […]
Online video service Netflix has reached 1.5 million paying subscribers in the UK. Exclusive series such as The House of Cards and Arrested Development, as well as bought-in TV shows including the hit Breaking Bad, have helped the US-based company increase its paying UK audience to between 1.5 million and two million, according to a […]
The BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service recorded 242 million requests in July – up 38 per cent on the same time last year. Sport boosted live viewing and listening on BBC iPlayer thoughout July, with the proportion of live requests to TV and radio both up month-on-month to 15 per cent and 85 per cent respectively. […]
VoD service Viewster has revealed that Red Bull Media House will make its video content available through Viewster’s service. Viewers in the UK, Benelux, Germany and the Nordics will be able to watch action sports and culture content, produced by Red Bull Media House, on-demand. As with all Viewster titles, Red Bull Media House content […]
The content licensing deal between Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), Lionsgate’s partner in Asia and one of Asia’s largest vertically integrated independent entertainment companies, and Youku Tudou, one of the leading Internet television companies in China, is off to a fast start as the highly-anticipated Lionsgate television series Orange is the New Black has generated nearly […]