Sky has released the trailer for Brave New World, a Sky original, coming this autumn to Sky One and streaming service NOW TV. The trailer can be viewerd here. Based on Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel, Brave New World imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, […]
Italy’s Serie A has set a July 12th deadline for Sky Italia to pay the last instalment for the TV rights, otherwise it faces a football blackout until the end of the season. Much like the English Premier League, the season restarted last week, and is currenly scheduled to end on August 2nd. The pay-TV […]
Sky has ordered a second season of its record-breaking Sky Original drama, Gangs of London. The first series is the biggest Sky Original drama launch on Sky Atlantic of the past five years with a 7-day cumulative audience of over 2.2 million viewers for the opening episode. Gangs of London is also Sky’s most binged […]
Sky and Discovery have agreed a new long-term, multi-faceted partnership across the UK and Ireland, Germany and Austria. Discovery’s portfolio of real-life entertainment channels, including Discovery Channel, will continue to be showcased across the Sky platforms in the UK, and on the Sky Deutschland platforms in Germany and Austria. The Discovery Channel will continue to be […]
Sky Deutschland has announced a major new content plan to that it says will “shakeup TV in Germany and take Sky into a new era”. Sky will deliver its plan through a combination of partnerships and development of its entertainment, movies and sports offering – and it starts with an extension of Sky’s deal with […]
NBCUniversal and Sky have named the leadership team for the companies’ new One Platform Global Advertising & Partnerships offering. Newly-named President & Managing Director of Global Advertising & Partnerships KC Sullivan will lead the unified Global Advertising & Partnerships Team, and bring this offering to market. Sullivan, who most recently served as President & Managing […]
Moonbug, a global entertainment company that develops and distributes values-based content for kids, has launched the Moonbug channel on Sky Kids. Families in the UK and Ireland with Sky can now access Moonbug’s kids’ content, ad-free, through the new VoD channel, including global sensation Little Baby Bum, Go Buster, Playtime with Twinkle, Digley and Dazey, […]
Sky has published its annual social and environmental impact report highlighting the progress it has made in 2019 and setting out its ‘Bigger Picture’ ambitions for 2020 and beyond. The publication of the report comes as Sky announces a commitment toward its ambition to be net zero carbon by 2030, with all its Sky Originals […]
NOW TV has announced that Michelle Golding will be joining the Sky-operated streaming service immediately as Director of Strategy and Propositions. Covering Louisa Taylor’s maternity leave, Golding will report into Marina Storti, Managing Director of NOW TV, and will be responsible for managing the customer proposition and business strategy strands of the OTT business. Storti […]
Due to what Sky Media describes as “overwhelming interest” in its AdSmart SME Support Scheme, it has announced it will provide an additional 150 businesses with targeted TV advertising support. The initial SME100 campaign now becomes SME250 as Sky Media invests a total of £2.5 million into the fund, bringing the total number of small […]