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Sky joins forces with War Child, Choose Love for Love not War

Sky, Choose Love and War Child today announce a collaboration and present Love not War, a one-off TV event featuring some of the nation’s favourite musicians and comedians, all in the name of fundraising. Sky and NOW viewers will be able to watch Love not War this Christmas on Sky Max and Sky Arts. As […]

November 10, 2021

4Sales makes senior hires

Channel 4’s commercial sales arm, 4Sales, has appointed two new roles to expand its senior leadership team which is responsible for the UK broadcaster’s core revenue driving activity. The appointments are part of a senior leadership team restructure to ensure the successful delivery of Channel 4’s Future4 strategy which launched last autumn. Headed up by […]

November 9, 2021

WWE stars reveal favourite streamers and movies

WWE returned to UK shores this month for a full scale, live tour, taking in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Brighton, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds and Nottingham – the entertainment behemoth’s biggest international tour since the pandemic hit. Advanced-Television spoke to a number of WWE superstars as they descended upon London to find out about their streaming habits […]

November 7, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Netflix series ARCANE sees pop-up store destroyed as part of global campaign

Riot Games has announced the launch of a global campaign to promote the upcoming League of Legends on-screen series, Arcane. Together with London based experiential agency We Are Collider, the fully integrated campaign will feature a blend of experiential, digital, social and out-of-home activations in cities worldwide coinciding with the release dates of each episode […]

November 5, 2021

ITV announces An Audience With Adele

An Audience With Adele is a primetime UK TV exclusive that will see the iconic artist perform her current record-breaking no 1 single “Easy On Me”, as well as featuring more songs from her highly anticipated forthcoming album, “30”. Due for release on November 19th, “30” will be Adele’s fourth album and the first new […]

November 3, 2021

Interactive Arkham Asylum experience coming to London

Department Studios,  Myriad Entertainment, and Warner Bros Themed Entertainment, in association with DC, have announced Arkham Asylum, a live immersive experience, inspired by iconic superhero Batman. Set in a vast multi-sensory recreation of the eponymous psychiatric hospital from DC lore – Arkham Asylum aims to be “an epic alternate reality, combining futuristic technology and interactive […]

October 29, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Airband secures £100m debt package

Airband, the broadband provider for rural homes and businesses across the West of England, has successfully closed a significant £100 million (€118.3m) debt package from an international banking consortium including HSBC, Lloyds, Nord LB and Sabadell. The debt facility enables Airband to accelerate its rollout plan with the view to service 600,000 premises with full […]

October 27, 2021

BFI engages Red Bee for audio description and captioning

The British Film Institute (BFI), the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image, has selected global media services company Red Bee Media as its official access services provider for two major film festivals in 2021. Red Bee delivered audio description and captioning for the 2021 BFI Flare Festival and provided similar support for […]

October 21, 2021

Back to the Future The Musical deploys disguise-powered VFX video set design

When pop culture movie phenomenon Back to the Future arrived in the West End, it was a time-traveling dream come true for the many fans of the original movie. Following its world premiere at the Opera House in Manchester in February 2020, the VFX-filled show set up its residency at London’s Adelphi Theatre in August […]

October 12, 2021

Outernet chooses WHATS’ON by Mediagenix

Outernet have chosen WHATS’ON — the M&E Business Management Platform by Mediagenix— to manage all their channels across multiple locations within their London entertainment district based in Soho. Outernet London is an immersive media and entertainment business boasting the world’s largest high-resolution immersive wrap-around screens and audio, a new 2,200 capacity live events venue, the […]

October 5, 2021