The BBC will stream this season’s FA Youth Cup Final between Manchester City and Manchester United alongside TNT Sports on May 1tth. Football fans can tune in free-to-air via the BBC iPlayer or the BBC Sport website and app. The match, which will be played at the Joie Stadium, will be produced and broadcast by […]
Fabio Wardley will defend his WBO Heavyweight Title against former IBF ruler Daniel Dubois in a high-stakes domestic clash on May 9th. The showdown headlines the Don’t Blink event at Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena, with the full fight card to be broadcast live worldwide exclusively on DAZN, Wardley (20-0-1, 19 KOs) has been cementing himself […]
Sky has announced the commission of feature documentary, The Manchester Arena Bomb (w/t) which will come to Sky Documentaries and NOW in 2027. On the night of May 22nd 2017, thousands of teenagers and their parents packed the Manchester Arena to see Ariana Grande on her Dangerous Woman World Tour. For many, it was a night they had […]
Amazon MGM Studios head Fozia Khan, Comedian & TV personality Judi Love, and Channel 5 & Paramount + Kit Morley are confirmed as speakers for Wonder Women Live! 2026 in London and Manchester, taking place this March in celebration of International Women’s Week. Now entering its ninth year, Wonder Women Live! is presented by Wonder Women […]
Channel 4’s training and development arm, 4Skills, has announced Content Creatives+, a new development scheme designed to help young digital creatives in the North of England progress in the industry. The scheme builds on the 4Skills’ programme, Content Creatives, which has provided practical training in creative digital techniques to more than 100 people since its […]
Officers from the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at City of London Police have executed warrants in Manchester, making four arrests and seizing ten servers and associated equipment. Each item was valued at approximately £75,000, with total seizures exceeding £750,000. The investigation began after Sky reported suspicious activity linked to a large scale illicit […]
Virgin Media O2 has officially opened its new North West HQ in central Manchester.The move was first announced in October 2024. Virgin Media O2 has signed a 10-year agreement with Island to take around 50 per cent of the new site. Island is a net zero carbon workspace being developed by joint venture partners HBD […]
BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions worked closely with VERSA Studios, who partnered with Virtual Production specialists Immersion Science, to design and deliver the Virtual Production for The Great Ice Cream Hunt — bringing the technology to CBeebies for the very first time. This new musical adventure, filmed at VERSA Studios in Manchester, blends the […]
Ritu Arya (The Umbrella Academy) and Sanjeev Bhaskar (Unforgotten) star in The Split Up, a new six-part legal drama for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, with story and characters created by Ursula Rani Sarma (Smother, Delicious), based on The Split, created by multiple award-winning Abi Morgan (The Split, Eric) and produced by SISTER in association […]
River Capital has announced a six-figure investment into Manchester-based virtual production company, SilverScape. The funding comes from NPIF II – River Capital & GC Business Finance Smaller Loans, which is managed by River Capital & GC Business Finance as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II. SilverScape, established in September 2021 by communications industry […]