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Sky bundles Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Hayu

Sky has announced that new customers will be able to get Sky, HBO Max, Disney+, Hayu and Netflix together as part of Sky Ultimate TV from £24 a month – rolling out this March. Existing customers will get access as part of their Sky TV subscription, with over £20 worth of streaming apps included each […]

February 11, 2026By Nik Roseveare

Paramount improves WBD offer

Paramount Skydance has amended its $30 (€25.17) per share, all-cash tender offer to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) with enhancements that it says “surpass the standard needed for the WBD Board to engage on Paramount’s superior proposal”. Paramount added that its enhanced offer “provides definitively superior value and certainty”. To underscore confidence in the speed […]

February 11, 2026

Barb: Nearly 61% of UK homes have Netflix

Barb, the audience measurement specialist, has released data from its Establishment Survey showing that 20.6 million UK homes (69.7 per cent) had access to at least one SVoD service in Q4 2025. This is slightly up from 20.5 million UK homes in Q3 2025. The service-level subscriptions data are as follows: Netflix: 18 million UK […]

February 5, 2026By Nik Roseveare

Turn of the Tide season 3 on Netflix this April

Netflix has announced that the third and final season of Turn of the Tide, the hit Portuguese series, will premiere on Netflix on April 10th. The main cast returns for one last adventure packed with action, justice and revenge, led by José Condessa, Helena Caldeira, Rodrigo Tomás and André Leitão. They will once again be […]

February 5, 2026

Adam Hawkins named Edinburgh TV Festival’s Advisory Chair for 2026

The Edinburgh TV Festival has announced Adam Hawkins as the Festival’s Advisory Chair for 2026. Director of Documentary Series at Netflix, Hawkins will work with the Festival team to oversee the development of the programme and creative direction of this year’s Festival. Hawkins follows an esteemed list of industry figures who have taken on the […]

February 4, 2026

Kaito secures multiple TV deals for Baby Einstein

Kaito Entertainment, the appointed global distributor for Hello Einstein Studios, has secured a raft of international broadcast and streaming partners across Baby Einstein’s classic catalogue and its newer series — Ocean Explorers, Farm Explorers, and Closer Look. The Baby Einstein brand continues to see global momentum, with new broadcast and streaming deals spanning major territories: […]

February 3, 2026

Analysis: Global home entertainment values surges

Analysis from the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and Digital Entertainment Group International (DEGI), in association with several insight providers in UK and international entertainment, reveals the scale of the success of the global screen entertainment industry in 2025. The UK entertainment industry delivered a record-breaking year in 2025 with total market value reaching £34 billion […]

January 29, 2026

Netflix readies for WWE Royal Rumble 2026 live from Saudi Arabia

The 39th annual Royal Rumble is set to be one of the biggest in WWE’s history. Taking place on January 31st at KAFD in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, it will mark the first traditional Royal Rumble held outside North America. British and Irish Netflix subscribers can watch the historic event live from 7pm GMT as The […]

January 29, 2026By Nik Roseveare

Netflix opens new Brazil office

Netflix has opened a new, larger office in São Paulo, Brazil as the streamer commemorates its 15th year in the country. Co-CEO Greg Peters attended the ceremony, bringing together names from the creative industry, government authorities, and business partners. At the event, Peters highlighted the strengthening of Netflix’s partnership with Brazil’s audiovisual sector and reaffirmed […]

January 28, 2026

Why don’t lawmakers like Netflix?

Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic have come out against the Netflix takeover of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). What did Netflix ever do to them? Well, in the case of the US, it’s more a question of what Netflix hasn’t done for them. Because it’s never been a network, it’s never had the wherewithal […]

January 27, 2026