The production of high-end series is trending upwards, fuelled on the one hand by the investment in TV fiction of the pure SVoD players, chiefly Netflix, but also by a rebalancing of broadcasters’ investment from TV films to series – a move to better retain audiences. Available figures suggest that only a limited number of […]
The Portuguese Association of Electronic Communications Operators (Apritel) has requested a “level playing field” between TV channels and on-demand services. Apritel Secretary-General, Pedro Mota Soares, stressed the need to ensure that all national and foreign operators operating in Portugal, “under the jurisdiction of other states”, have “the same responsibilities and the same obligations”. He made […]
HBO Europe has appointed Christian Wikander as Commissioning Editor and VP Original Programming at the company’s Scandinavian arm, HBO Nordic. Wikander will assume the role in September and will be responsible for all Nordic development and production for HBO Europe. Based in Stockholm, he will report to Antony Root, EVP Original Programming and Production. Wikander […]
Sky has announced the commission of a comic horror Sky original drama, The Baby, from screenwriter Siân Robins-Grace (Kaos, Sex Education). The Sky and HBO co-production is co-created by Robins-Grace and Lucy Gaymer (credits as Production Manager include Gangs of London, Liar) and produced by SISTER and Proverbial Pictures. The Baby ,which will air on Sky Atlantic […]
Celebrated Italian director Luca Guadagnino brings his unique cinematic style to television for the first time in We Are Who We Are, an eight-part limited series which has been acquired for BBC Three from Fremantle. An HBO-SKY series, produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment, and by Mario Gianani for Wildside, both Fremantle Companies, with […]
Netflix has seen its content earn a combined 160 Emmy nominations – a record amount that beats the 137 nods received by HBO in 2019. HBO still had the most-nominated show in Watchmen – an innovative sequel to the celebrated graphic novel that tackled racism in the US – which earned 26 nods. Succession also […]
HBO Max has revealed that Friends is its number one performing show. Despite ending over 15 years ago, after 10 seasons, WarnerMedia paid $425 million for the rights to the popular sitcom in a 5 year deal, with that price tag already going the right way towards justifying itself. The Big Bang Theory clocked in […]
WarnerMedia’s new HBO Asia Original series is set to premiere on August 16th exclusively on HBO GO and HBO. New episodes will premiere every Sunday at the same time. Set in the near future, Dream Raider features a misfit team of scientists and cops that are trying to get to the bottom of a criminal […]
Sky’s OTT platform will close down in Spain on September 1st, the first victim of the country’s OTT boom. The service, which launched three years ago, has failed to make an impact in a crowded market featuring the likes of Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, Filmin, Movistar+ and Disney+ among others. Sky’s streaming service launched its […]
Research has revealed the UK’s viewing preferences during lockdown – and highlighted that consumers are keen to get back into cinemas as we adjust to the ‘new normal’. The findings come via a wide-ranging survey of over 3,000 pop culture fans in the UK undertaken by agency Experience12. Data was collected between June 25th and […]