DAZN, the sports streaming service, has acquired worldwide rights (excluding Asia-Pacific) to Fulwell 73’s latest sports documentary series One Team, One Dream, a behind-the-scenes look at Chelsea FC Women (CFCW), produced in partnership with Waffle Iron Entertainment. Produced and directed by Alex Sunderland and executive produced by Fulwell 73’s Leo Pearlman and Ben Turner, the six-part […]
Sky has announced its largest ever slate of new programming to be shown through 2022 and beyond, including a raft of new commissions across drama, comedy and original film. Announced at the Up Next 2022 event at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, Sky will launch over 200 Sky Original shows across all […]
UK communications infrastructure and media services provider Arqiva has launched Arqade, a self-service pay-per-use interchange for rights holders, broadcasters and platform operators. The cloud-based platform, which can also take content from conventional fibre and satellite inputs, delivers to TV channels, platforms and online services for streaming and video publishing – all with monitoring and end-to-end […]
beIN Sports en Español and beIN Sports XTRA en Español have officially launched on subscription streaming service YouTube TV through its Spanish Plan and Spanish Plus add-on. The launch of the Spanish-language channels serves as continued expansion and growth of distribution following the successful launch of beIN’s English-language channels on the streaming service in 2021 […]
Senior Year took the #1 spot on the English Films list with 55.94 million hours viewed for the week commencing May 9th; the Rebel Wilson comedy appeared in the Top 10 in 93 countries. Viewers were engrossed with Our Father as the film debuted in second place with 23.87 million hours viewed. The documentary was […]
Data from the BBC shows there were a record 405 million plays of all audio on BBC Sounds, and a record total of 179 million plays for on-demand radio and podcasts in the first quarter of 2022. The average weekly BBC Sounds audience was also a record with 4.06 million across the app, website and […]
Next-generation media company Candle Media is acquiring purpose-driven, social storytelling company ATTN:. Candle will help provide scale, capital and expertise to accelerate ATTN:’s growth as it continues to create original content for Gen Z and Millennials across social media, network television and streaming services, in addition to growing their publishing, brand studio, creative strategy and […]
HBO Max and Cartoon Network have announced that Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Ali G) has teamed with Greg Daniels (King of the Hill) and Mike Judge (King of the Hill, Beavis & Butthead) of the newly formed Bandera Entertainment, as well as Michael Koman (SNL, Co-Creator of Nathan for You, and Executive Producer of HBO’s How To with John Wilson) to bring their […]
Disney has announced that Marvel Studios’ upcoming She Hulk series has been given the full title of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and will streaming exclusively on Disney+ beginning August 17th. The new series, billed by Disney+ as a comedy, stars Tatiana Maslany as She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters – a lawyer who specialises in superhuman-oriented legal cases. She-Hulk: […]
A new six-part Channel 4 series from Voltage and Roku Originals will test the resistance of a group of strangers. The series will debut in the UK on Channel 4 and exclusively on The Roku Channel in the US. In Tempting Fortune, 12 strangers will spend 19 days in paradise. Arriving with basic survival gear […]