Sky and NOW TV will air over 125 new Sky Originals throughout 2021. Sky will bring its subscribers 30 new Sky Original films and 30 new Sky Original documentaries, on top of a number of drama, comedy, entertainment and arts series. Altogether, Sky says there will be 50 per cent more original TV and film […]
The second season of Sky Original A Discovery of Witches transported viewers into the magical world of Elizabethan London when it launched on January 8th. The series launch episode on Sky One achieved a cumulative 7 day audience of 1.79 million, making it Sky’s biggest launch for an original returning series in nearly 9 years. […]
Sky has announced that A Boy Called Christmas will join their 2021 original film line-up. Acquired from STUDIOCANAL, exclusively for the UK & Ireland, the film – based on the book by Matt Haig – will be released on Sky Cinema and NOW TV this Christmas. as well as in cinemas. Co-written and directed by […]
Sky Media, the advertising sales arm of Sky, and TVbeat, a global player in TV inventory and yield management, have further expanded their long-term partnership with independent TV data verification. Sky Media has appointed TVbeat as the ‘System of Note’ to ingest, process and harmonise data from various sources across their technology stack in a […]
In June last year, Sky announced a series of commitments to improve our approach to diversity and inclusion. Sky committed to invest £10 million a year across its markets for each of the next three years to improve representation and progression of minority groups, make a difference in communities impacted by racism, and use the […]
Liverpool’s Premier League clash with Manchester United at Anfield on January 17th recorded the biggest ever audience for an event exclusively on Sky Sports. The goalless draw between two of this season’s title contenders saw an average of 4.5 million viewers tuning into the match, peaking at 4.8 million in the final five minutes. That […]
Italian broadcasting group Mediaset has acquired the streaming rights for 104 matches from the UEFA Champions League during the 2021-2024 seasons. According to Italian news agency Radicor, Sky Italia and Mediaset have snatched up the most important Italian TV rights packages for Europe’s premier football competition. Besides the streaming rights, Mediaset also obtained the exclusive […]
Sky and STUDIOCANAL, Canal+ Group’s film production and distribution company, are partnering to bring Sky customers hundreds of hours of movies on Sky Q. The content will also be available to NOW TV customers with a Cinema Pass. Under the deal, STUDIOCANAL’s titles scheduled for release from January 2021 will be brought to Sky Cinema […]
Analysis by research firm Ampere reveals that Netflix became the second largest TV group in Europe by revenue in 2020. “Since launching in 2012, Netflix has grown rapidly in Europe,” notes Tony Maroulis, Principal Analyst at Ampere Analysis. “By 2016, it had launched its services across the whole of Europe, and passed the $1 billion […]
Amazon is planning to join the bidding for the TV rights to Serie A football in Italy, taking on the likes of Comcast’s Sky and DAZN. Amazon plans to bid for streaming rights that would see games air on its Prime Video service. The country’s top flight league has set a January 26th deadline to […]