Banijay Entertainment has launched Players Network – powered by Banijay Entertainment, its new overarching digital sports brand to house social‑first sports entertainment formats. The brand’s first title, Jamie Vardy’s Having a Party, from Banijay UK label Workerbee, launches on June 10th, in time for the FIFA World Cup 2026, on YouTube, Prime Video and all […]
ITV has commissioned reality series The Vardys, offering an exclusive insight into the lives of one of the football and showbiz worlds’ most famous families as they take on one of their biggest challenges yet – leaving Leicester after 13 years for a new life abroad. This new series from Orchard Studios will air later […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, is offering viewers in the UK & Ireland the chance to watch Matchday 32 Serie A fixtures for free from April 10th to 13th. With just seven games remaining in the season, the headline fixtures promise further twists in the Scudetto race as teams try to close the gap. In […]
Hong Kong’s PPLive Sports TV streaming service has been ordered to pay the English Premier League (EPL) at least $212 million (€186.5m) by a London High Court judge. PPLive signed a deal with the the EPL to show both live and delayed football matches and game highlights throughout China. The deal was set to run […]
Kasper Schmeichel has spoken about the dramatic moment Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch during a Euro 2020 match in a new ITV documentary. The Leicester City goalkeeper features in Kasper Schmeichel – Keeping The Faith, which airs on ITV4 at 10pm on January 11th. The show is part of the Against The Odds series, […]
Nearly 15 million people have had goals spoiled because the broadcast they were watching was lagging behind the live action, according to research by Uswitch, the comparison and switching service. Most broadcast methods result in delays to the live action, as devices have to decode huge packets of data before it reaches the viewer. The […]
BT is kicking off its 2020/21 season launch campaign with a host of notable football names featuring in its television advert, which it says showcases “the breadth of content and flexibility available to customers on BT TV”. BT TV is the only place where fans will be able to switch seamlessly between BT Sport, Sky […]