The International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed Disney Star will be the home of all ICC cricket in India for the next four years having won the TV and digital rights to both men’s and women’s global events through to the end of 2027. The ICC said Disney Star won following a single round sealed […]

New data from research firm Roy Morgan shows over 2.9 million New Zealanders aged 14+ now watch Subscription TV in an average four weeks – encompassing well over two-thirds (71 per cent) of all New Zealanders. Despite most pandemic restrictions being relaxed total viewership of Subscription TV in New Zealand has increased 3.4 per cent […]

Latin American SVoD revenues will reach $8.54 billion (€8.85bn) by 2027; up from $5.01 billion in 2021, according to the Latin America SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Netflix is forecast to account for 41 per cent of the 2027 total, down from 72 per cent in 2021. Netflix’s revenues will peak […]

Disney+ has announced Rivals, a new eight-part series based on the novel by Jilly Cooper. Rivals is part of the author’s bestselling Rutshire Chronicles, a celebrated piece of British literary history, capturing the drama, excess, and brazen power-grabbing of the affluent elite in 1980s England. The series will be executive produced by Dominic Treadwell-Collins (A […]

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). […]

Digital experience specialist Adobe has launched Adobe Primetime Account IQ aimed at enabling video streaming services to identify and understand credential sharing activity, measure the impact of applying actions, and effectively monetise subscriber behaviour. Adobe notes that nearly four in 10 Americans are using someone else’s streaming account and 29 per cent of all D2C […]

Celebrated musical The Greatest Showman is coming to Disney+ in the UK on September 23rd. The biographical movie, starring Hugh Jackman, is inspired by the life of P.T. Barnum who was a visionary that rose from nothing to create the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’, a spectacle and celebration of his larger-than-life imagination that captivated audiences […]

There will be 21.52 million paying SVoD subscriptions [TV episodes and movies only] across 13 Arabic countries by 2027, up from 9.49 million in 2021, according to the Middle East and North Africa SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. “Netflix will continue to lead the market, although Disney+ has provided a strong […]

Disney has appointed former Telefilm Canada executive, Stephanie Azam, as director of content for Disney+ Canada. Azam was at Canadian government-owned Telefilm Canada for 13 years where she oversaw production financing for English-speaking Canada, joining in 2008 as a marketing and distribution specialist, before being promoted to national director of feature film in 2009. More […]

Africa will have 13.64 million paying SVoD subscriptions by 2027, up from 4.9 million at end-2021, according to the Africa SVOD Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. Only 6.6 per cent of TV households will pay for at least one subscription by 2027 – up from 3.9 per cent at end-2021. “As well […]