Ahead of NATPE Budapest, Sphere Abacus (SA) has confirmed package deals across a diverse range of scripted and unscripted titles. In the first of the deals brokered by SA Sales Director Ros Ali, TVP Poland has acquired the compelling and exclusive-access documentary Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, produced by Renegade Stories and Galafilm Productions, high-end […]
UK-based distributor Sphere Abacus (SA) has announced sales of 200 hours of its diverse programming to platforms and broadcasters across multiple CEE territories. In a line-up of deals brokered by SA Sales Director Ros Ali, DOX TV has acquired a raft of programmes for its platform across Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia […]
Canada’s Bell Media has bolstered its existing partnership with Montréal-based Sphere Media by acquiring a majority stake in content distributor Sphere Abacus, through parent company Sphere Media International. As part of the acquisition, UK-based Sphere Abacus becomes the primary international distributor of Bell Media’s owned distribution rights, which enables Bell Media to participate more broadly […]
Content studio and digital media network, Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company), has acquired the exclusive US and English Canadian rights for Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson, the follow-up to the Emmy and BAFTA-winning documentary Leaving Neverland. The documentary, produced and directed by Dan Reed of Amos Pictures, will premiere in the US and […]
Channel 4 has commissioned Wonderhood Studios to produce the 4 x 60-minute series The Trial of Michael Jackson (working title). The series will feature contributors who have never spoken before to plot the story of Michael Jackson’s 2005 criminal trial alongside Jackson’s rise to fame and life in the spotlight. It will forensically examine available […]
Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn has wrapped production on War Through the Eyes of Animals, a Ukrainian anthology film that shines a spotlight on animals affected by ecocide due to the war in Ukraine. Penn stars in the anthology’s final story, The Eagle, written and filmed by renowned director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (The Tribe), which pays tribute to a […]
True crime series, Faking It, will return this year as Discovery UK commissions a new line-up of specials along with the sixth season produced by Merseyside-based Shearwater Media. Faking It follows experts in body language, linguistics and forensic psychology as they examine footage and interviews of individuals connected to some of the most high-profile crimes, […]
Vevo, the music video network, has released data to celebrate the 40th anniversary of music videos hitting the mainstream on August 1st 1981. This data, based on lifetime views across Vevo’s network, demonstrates the most popular music videos of each decade, both in the UK and globally. Since the first airing of Video Killed the […]
Vevo, the music video network, has launched a new contextual ad targeting product, called Vevo Rewind. Through Vevo’s data-backed content recommendations, Vevo Rewind allows brands to place their campaign alongside the top Vevo music videos of a particular decade, from the 1970s through the 2010s, in addition to targeting a specific genre or country. Vevo […]