Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman topped the English TV List for the third week in a row with 77.24 million hours viewed and appeared in the Top 10 in 91 countries. Additionally, fans were treated to a two-part bonus episode of the dark fantasy series, which featured the stories A Dream of a Thousand Cats/Calliope in […]
ITV has announced a slate of factual commissions for ITVX, its new streaming platform set to launch later this year. “We’re excited about the opportunity ITVX presents for us and with our commissioning we want to broaden the palette of factual in very different and surprising ways. Documentary box sets with directorial ambition, on a diverse […]
Digital media measurement, data and analytics software platform DoubleVerify (DV) has confirmed the appointment of Lawrence Horne as Regional Vice President for Northern Europe. As DV’s Regional Vice President for Northern Europe, Horne will be responsible for maintaining senior relationships with the company’s largest global customers and leading the regional sales teams to ensure the […]
EditShare, the technology player that enables storytellers to create and manage collaborative media workflows, has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate programme, a co-sell programme for AWS Partners that provides software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS. The programme helps AWS Partners drive new business by directly connecting […]
Virgin Media O2 is donating £2 million to digital inclusion charity, Good Things Foundation, to help disadvantaged people across the UK get online and gain vital digital skills, as part of a new three-year partnership. Virgin Media O2 has become a strategic partner of Good Things Foundation and will work closely with the charity to […]
Prime Video has revealed further investment into documentary filmmaking with two new UK Original series, The Greatest Show Never Made and Fake Sheikh. Both documentaries will launch on Prime Video in 2023. These new docu-series will sit alongside the chilling Patricia Hall documentary, The Confession, three-part series Three Mothers (working title), and previously announced documentary […]
Disney+ has announced A Thousand Blows (working title), a new 12-part series set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London. The series will be brought to life by screenwriter Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Taboo), starring and executive produced by British screen icon Stephen Graham (This is England, Boardwalk Empire, The Irishman). […]
A survey commissioned by publisher LADbible Group has revealed over half (56 per cent) of 18–44-year-olds in the UK – around 11.8 million people – currently use someone else’s login details to access a streaming service. In a report that highlights the challenges that streaming services face to attract paying subscribers in the face of the growing cost of […]
In May, BT Group confirmed that it had received notification from the UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy that he had considered the increase by Altice Europe N.V. of its shareholding in BT Group from 12.1 per cent to 18 per cent and was exercising his call-in power under section 1 […]
Google is trying to make its TV experience faster and more responsive for users. According to a company post, it has been working on improving boot time, general performance, and the number of options for managing storage on both third-party TVs as well as its Chromecast with Google TV streaming puck. The company says, as […]