Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment will premiere the Ukrainian fantasy series Cossacks on September 1st on its free streaming service Crackle. Directed, written, and shot on location in Ukraine and featuring a nearly entire cast of Ukrainian actors, Cossacks is a 12-episode sword and sorcery fantasy series. The series stars Yuriy Dyak (The Inheritance), […]
Fremantle has announced Power of Talent, a new feature documentary, which reveals the real-life stories of inspiring contestants from Ukraine, who continue to wow audiences on Got Talent stages around the world, while their home country is at war. Format owner Fremantle and Ukrainian broadcaster STB channel have collaborated to create the documentary, which delves […]
Game4Ukraine, the brainchild of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainian footballing royalty Andriy Shevchenko and Oleksandr Zinchenko, will be kicking off exclusively on Sky Max, in the UK and Ireland on August 5th. The 11-a-side legends match will also be free-to-stream for everyone based in Ukraine. Game4Ukraine will see Team Blue coached by Chelsea manager […]
Russian DTH operator Russkiy Mir (Russian World) aims to connect 155,000 households in the occupied Dontesk, Kherson, Zaporizhzia and Luhansk regions of Ukraine by the end of this year, according to Comnews. The service opened in December 2022. Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said that installation teams should connect 155,000 homes in what the […]
Satcube, a European technology company that develops lightweight, portable terminals to provide critical satellite broadband, is providing its Satcube Ku terminals to some of the biggest media brands and NGOs on the ground in Turkey and Ukraine. The terminals are used to enable the UN, Red Cross (ICRC), ITV, CBS News, NBC, and government agencies […]
German Producer, Broadview, and Ukrainian Producer, Space, together with The Organization of Ukrainian Producers (OUP) started the last film shootings for the documentary film Art in War. The film will debut on cultural TV Channel ARTE in spring 2023. The first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, speaks exclusively in the film. The interview touches upon […]
Liev Schreiber will ne the narrator of the documentary film, Against All Odds: The Failure Of Russia’s Blitzkrieg. “Any film becomes alive once it acquires a voice,” said Artem Lytvynenko, the director. “Liev Schreiber was extremely engaged in the process, he cares about what’s going on in Ukraine. He has recently visited Kyiv and saw […]
Despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russia has succeeded in gaining regulatory approval for a global broadband-by-satellite constellation. The project – called Sphere – already has one satellite in orbit, a ”demonstration” SkyF-D craft, launched on October 22nd. Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is backing the scheme, and the Russian government has plans to invest some […]
Thirty-nine members of the European parliament have written to the EU’s top legal officials demanding that Europe’s two giant satellite operators immediately take down Russian-backed channels from their portfolios of broadcasts. Various EU officials have already complained about Eutelsat’s carriage of Russian channels. Eutelsat has said it wants to be politically neutral and in addition […]
Despite graphic violence in news coverage of the war in Ukraine and other controversial topics in the news, US consumers broadly believe that all news content is appropriate for ads, according to the 2022 TAG/BSI US Consumer Brand Safety Survey, conducted by the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) and Brand Safety Institute (BSI). Only one in […]