US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to reduce government support for two US ‘not for profit’ broadcast entities, National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB/PBS). Trump alleged that the two entities have showed bias in their reporting. Both organisations receive government funding which they supplement with direct cash funding […]
ABC, PBS, ITV Studios, Screen Australia and Screen NSW have commenced filming on the new three-part natural history series, Ages of Ice. From Northern Pictures, Ages of Ice follows the brave scientists pushing the boundaries of exploration and human endeavour in Earth’s coldest corners to understand the changes of ice and what this means for our […]
ITV Studios owned Eagle Eye Drama have confirmed PBS Distribution have bought the North American rights of Mark Gatiss’ detective series Bookish. The six part series is created by Emmy award winning writer Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen, Sherlock) who stars in the titular role as the erudite and unconventional antiquarian bookshop owner, Gabriel Book. Polly Walker (Bridgerton, Line of […]
Eaglet Films has announced that PBS Distribution has acquired the North American distribution rights to Eaglet Films’ new kids 2D/CG-animated comedy series, Piripenguins about a lively group of penguin friends who have fun living together on an iceberg. Piripenguins, a 52 x 11’ series, is produced by Eaglet Films together with Red Monk Studio (Italy) and […]
PBS Distribution, a distributor of public media content, is launching a new documentary-focused Prime Video Channel in Canada – PBS Documentaries. Like its US counterpart, this subscription-based streaming channel will include thought-provoking documentaries from PBS’s library. Audiences will be able to discover and explore a collection of documentaries and factual series across all genres, including […]
Twenty five years after it first aired, Walking With Dinosaurs is returning to TV screens in a major new BBC Studios production for the BBC and PBS, co-produced with ZDF and France Télévisions. Arriving in 2025, this new series will take viewers on a journey back through time, revealing the incredible life stories of these […]
PBS Distribution (PBSd), distributor of public media content around the world, has announced a new FAST Channel, PBS Retro, which has launched on Roku. PBS Retro is a dedicated channel where audiences can relive cherished memories through classic PBS shows from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s like Kratts Creatures, Thomas and Friends, Zoboomafoo, Reading Rainbow […]
Digital content studio and media network, Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company), has been awarded the YouTube channel management contract for Ancestry Studios, the entertainment arm of the specialist in family history, Ancestry. Starting with immediate effect, the partnership will see Little Dot Studios run the official Youtube channel of Ancestry, including channel management and […]
From the creator of hit series Death in Paradise, and the producers of celebrated series Ghosts, comes a newly commissioned TV adaptation of Robert Thorogood’s hit novel The Marlow Murder Club (2×120’) for UKTV’s free-to-air channel, Drama and streaming service UKTV Play. The two-part drama is a co-commission with co-producer and US broadcaster Masterpiece, produced […]
Intelsat used the NAB show in Las Vegas to announce that it was now the exclusive satellite distributor for the US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) transmissions. More than 150 affiliates take Intelsat’s PBS signals. PBS is a private, non-profit broadcaster, founded in 1969, whose members are America’s public TV stations. It is a multi-platform media […]