Karl Holmes has been named SVP, Direct to Consumer & General Manager, Disney+, EMEA and will be taking up the role in January 2025. Joining from Sky, Holmes brings a wealth of direct-to-consumer experience from his career in media businesses with roles at Sky, 21st Century Fox and Tata Sky. Holmes will assume responsibility for […]
Sky is stepping up to the oche with a new three-part docuseries Dart Kings (3×60’). The series marks the latest collaboration between Sky and Mindhouse Productions following the BAFTA win for Lockerbie earlier this year and the critically acclaimed Tell Them You Love Me. Dart Kings will takes viewers on a nostalgic trip down through […]
SkyShowtime is continuing to expand its entertainment offering with its first partnership in Hungary, partnering with Magyar Telekom, one of the country’s leading telcos. SkyShowtime will be available and bundled with a Magyar Telekom TV subscription for the first time as part of their Telekom TV L and IPTV L packages, with two new linear […]
Sky has revealed the most meme’d, quoted, and repeated phrases from TV in the last year, with ‘Gladiators ready’ (Gladiators, 19 per cent), ‘I am a Faithful’ (The Traitors, 15 per cent) and ‘Sent from iPhon’ (Baby Reindeer, 14 per cent) topping the list. It has been a hit year of television, with quotes from […]
The Women’s Super League (WSL) is poised for a transformative 2024/25 season, marked by 14 broadcast deals, including a renewed partnership with Sky and BBC for domestic rights and YouTube’s debut as the primary streaming platform. The league’s deal with Sky and BBC is worth an estimated $10.09 million (€9.69m) for the 2024/25 season. WSL […]
The Multibank UK has announced a powerful coalition of sports broadcasters in support of the 2024 Hygiene Poverty campaign. Sky, Prime Video, TNT Sports, and TalkSport, have joined forces in a show of solidarity, to leverage their national broadcast channels in support of The Multibank – story-telling and educating on The Multibank and the campaign, […]
Sky and Amazon have announced an extension of their long-term collaboration that will see Prime Video continue to be available on Sky devices. The extension means that Sky customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland with a Prime Video subscription will be able to watch content from Sky and Prime Video, all […]
Sky Documentaries has selected four diverse owned/led production companies – DARE Pictures, Proper Content, Zandland, and 22Summers – to take part in the newly launched Sky Development Partnership Fund. The programme will see each indie receive tailored support from Sky Documentaries and they will collaborate closely with the commissioning team over six months to work […]
Ofcom has published the latest figures for complaints it has received about the UK’s major providers of broadband. mobile and pay-TV services. These figures cover the quarter from April to June 2024. During that quarter, complaints remained at a similar level to the previous quarter. Complaints about broadband, landline and mobile services fell slightly while complaints […]
The Day of the Jackal has become the biggest launch on Sky in over two years, drawing a record audience of 3 million in its first week making it the biggest Sky Original ever. The 10-part thriller, produced by Carnival Films and starring Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch and Úrsula Corberó, premiered on November 7th with […]