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Game of Thrones prequel on Sky/NOW in 2022

Sky has released the first official images from the upcoming drama series, House of the Dragon. Based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, the fantasy series, which is set 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones, tells the story of House Targaryen. House of the Dragon recently began production and will debut on […]

May 6, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Dubai’s OSN ramping up original content

OSN, the Dubai-based pay-TV operator, is ramping up its own original productions. Recent studio deals have seen it add the latest output from the likes of Disney+, HBO, NBCUniversal, Paramount and MGM. Rolla Karam, OSN’s interim Chief Content Officer, in an interview with Arab News, said that its OTT service (‘OSN Streaming’) has been an […]

May 5, 2021By Chris Forrester

Report: US linear TV viewing time falls 14% in Q1

Samba TV has released its quarterly State of Viewership report, showing viewership losses in the linear landscape compared to Q4 2020. According to Samba TV’s analysis, there was a 10 per cent quarter-over-quarter decline in the daily average number of TV-viewing US households consuming linear, along with a 14 per cent decline in total minutes […]

April 30, 2021

HBO Max announced 100+ LatAm productions

HBO Max has announced that it plans to develop more than 100 local productions in Latin America over the next two years, 33 of which are already in production. All these new programmes will be exclusive to the HBO Max streaming platform under the Max Originals brand. The stories will represent a wide variety of […]

April 30, 2021

Analysis: W Europe nears 122m OTT subs

Findings from Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence, suggest that the 16 countries in its analysis had a combined 121.9 million paid subscriptions at the end of 2020, with the UK, Germany and France occupying the top three positions. In a blog post, Michail Chandakas, Associate Research Analyst, and Vladimir Ryazantsev, […]

April 26, 2021

Ho joins WarnerMedia Kids APAC

WarnerMedia has appointed Christopher Ho as Senior Director of Kids Networks, overseeing Cartoon Network and Boomerang networks in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Korea. Responsibilities for this new role primarily include programming and multi-platform operations, as well as the content direction for the region’s channel brands. Also part of his remit are digital and […]

April 22, 2021

Amdocs Media announces new sales team hires

Amdocs Media, a division of Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, has announced two new appointments that further strengthen its successful sales team in Europe. Michael Ritchie joins Amdocs Media from System 73 as Head of Sales for Western Europe and Africa, and Emil Umetbaev joins the business from MediaKind […]

April 21, 2021

WarnerMedia / HBO, Catchplay & HKTVE announce new Taiwan series Trinity of Shadows

WarnerMedia, CATCHPLAY and HKTVE (Hong Kong’s ViuTV) have announced a new HBO Asia Original Taiwan series, Trinity of Shadows《第三佈局 塵沙惑》. The 15-part, hour-long crime drama series will premiere with two back-to-back episodes every Sunday at 9pm from June 13 on HBO GO and HBO in Asia. In Taiwan, the series will also simulcast on the […]

April 20, 2021

New HBO Asia original Legacy unveiled at APOS

WarnerMedia has announced Legacy, a new Chinese-language HBO Asia Original period drama series. Set in the 1920s, Legacy chronicles the lives of the wealthy Yi family and its three sisters who vie to inherit their father’s shopping mall business. In a time of upheaval and uncertainty, the three sisters set aside their differences to keep […]

April 20, 2021

Sky Studios names Silver Director of Commissioning for Drama

Sky Studios has announced the appointment of Gabriel Silver as Director of Commissioning, Drama in the UK, overseeing a broad slate of projects. Currently Senior Commissioning Editor and Executive Producer at Sky Studios, Silver takes up his new role with immediate effect, reporting into Chief Content Officer Jane Millichip. Most recently Silver has overseen a […]

April 13, 2021