Sky and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) have agreed a new long-term partnership across the UK and Ireland, Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. The deal means that all new and future Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) feature film releases including recent hits Jumanji: The Next Level, Little Women, Bad Boys For Life and the forthcoming sequel Peter […]
Independent factual media company CuriosityStream and Swedish TV operator Com Hem have announced a new partnership that brings hundreds of hours of world-class nonfiction programming to viewers throughout Sweden. Com Hem subscribers now have access to CuriosityStream’s award-winning original series and specials through its linear service, with SVoD and Comhem Play+ streaming coming soon. The […]
Netflix has announced the new Belgian series Soil. The original screenplay is based on the idea by Zouzou Ben Chikha, Dries Heyneman and Wannes Capelle. Belgian directors and screenwriters, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life), will direct the series alongside Mathieu Mortelmans (Unité 42, Gent West, Vermist). Netflix is partnering with […]
ITV Hub will revisit another vintage sporting year, delving into its archive to bring viewers the Rugby World Cup 2003 Revisited. Complete coverage of the fifth Rugby World Cup will play out exclusively across ITV Hub from July 20th, with all England matches also playing out on ITV4. Audiences can relive all the euphoria from […]
A filmed version of the Hamilton Broadway theatre production premiered to much fanfare on the Disney+ streaming platform on July 3rd. Consequently, the Disney+ app was downloaded 752,451 times globally between July 3rd and July 5th, including 458,796 times in the US alone, according to a report in Variety, citing analytics firm Apptopia. It means […]
In a move to bolster children’s content on the Apple TV+ streaming platform, Apple has announced a multi-year deal with The Maurice Sendak Foundation. Through the deal, Apple and The Maurice Sendak Foundation will reimagine new children’s series and specials based on the books and illustrations by Maurice Sendak, which will premiere globally exclusively on […]
The SVoD sector is growing rapidly, notes analyst firm Digital TV Research. There will be 1.161 billion SVoD subscriptions by 2025, up from 642 million at end-2019, according to its SVoD Forecasts by Vendor report. However, global players cannot
The Singapore High Court has granted an order sought by BBC Studios, Discovery, the Premier League, La Liga and broadcaster TVB for Singapore’s Internet Service Providers to block access to seventeen domains associated with popular piracy streaming sites and forty-one domains associated with popular illicit streaming device (ISD) applications. These apps, which flagrantly infringe copyright […]
Crunchyroll, the anime streaming service, announced at the Crunchyroll virtual industry panel at Anime Expo Lite a slate of new series coming soon to its platform. Crunchyroll announced two new Crunchyroll Original series including: TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You – In this married life comedy by “Hayate the Combat Butler” author Kenjiro Hata, Nasa […]
2020 continues to be a volatile year for the UK video and TV entertainment industry, with accelerated adoption across all OTT sectors and a lockdown boom that has played to the strengths of content hungry UK consumers. A report from Futuresource Consulting reveals the full dynamism of the UK video sector, pointing to an uptick […]