Drama series Nine Perfect Strangers, starring Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy, based on the 2018 novel by Australian author Liane Moriarty and directed and produced by Jonathan Levine, will launch exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, China other countries outside the US (where it will air on Hulu) later this year. The series […]
HBO Max will debut Friends: The Reunion special on May 27th – the one-year anniversary of streaming service’s launch. Friends stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer will return to the iconic comedy’s original soundstage, Stage 24, on the Warner Bros Studio lot in Burbank for a real-life […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]