BritBox International has named Diana Pessin as Senior Vice President of Marketing, North America and Group Marketing Services. Pessin has almost two decades of extensive senior leadership experience in product, direct-to-consumer, and data-driven marketing, driving transformational growth and campaigns for brands such as HBO, HBO Max and Warner Media, she will lead and manage Marketing […]
ITVX has announced that Space Precinct will stream for the first time in HD on BritBox, available via ITVX Premium, April 13th. All 24 episodes of the remastered live action drama, which first aired in 1994, will be available. Until now the series, directed by Gerry Anderson, has only ever been shown in standard definition. […]
BritBox International, the British streaming platform, has reached a milestone of three million total subscribers across the eight international markets in which its streaming service is available – the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. This represents over 15 per cent subscriber growth during the past year across all of the […]
The BBC has announced Murder is Easy, a new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic novel produced by Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited for BBC One and iPlayer, in a co-commission with BritBox International. The two-part thriller will film this summer and is adapted for the screen by Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre and directed by Meenu […]
Death in Paradise spin-off series Beyond Paradise, made by Red Planet Pictures and coming to BBC One and iPlayer on February 24th. Co-commissioned by the BBC and BritBox International, Beyond Paradise follows DI Humphrey Goodman and his fiancée Martha Lloyd after their nail-biting will-they-won’t-they romance reached its emotional finale in Saint Marie in 2017. Viewers […]
Red Planet Pictures has revealed a first-look image of Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton in Death in Paradise spin-off series Beyond Paradise. Co-commissioned by BBC and BritBox International, Beyond Paradise follows DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) and his fiancée Martha Lloyd (Sally Bretton) after their nail-biting will-they-won’t-they romance reached its emotional finale in Saint Marie […]
London/Singapore-based international content investment studio 108 Media has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake of London-based film and television financing firm Piccadilly Pictures.In addition to bolstering its ambitions in Europe, 108 Media will also begin to expand the remit of their latest acquisition into emerging markets by launching Piccadilly Pictures APAC, a new […]
ITV, the UK’s largest commercial broadcater, recorded revenues of £2.52 billion (€2.8bn) for the first nine months of 2022, a year-on-year increase of 6 per cent. Advertising revenues saw a 14 per cent drop in Q3, but with the World Cup on the horizon, ITV said it expected ad revenue to ease by 1-1.5 per […]
As traditional TV networks revenues continue their decline in favour of digital, global groups from the US reach records in attention captured across OTT platforms in Europe: Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Warner Bros Discovery and Comcast together gathered 73 per cent of European SVoD subscriptions and Alphabet and Meta alone concentrated around half of Europe’s […]
BritBox International commissions crime series Inspector Singh which will go into production in January of 2023 produced by London/Singapore-based global media firm 108 Media. The three-part series will be starring Sanjeev Bhaskar (The Kumars at No. 42, The Sandman, Unforgotten) in the lead role, with Suri Krishnamma (The Canterville Ghost, Coronation Street, Emmerdale) as series […]