Film / TV

Sky Studios CEO Gary Davey says the production house has been considering how best to manage a return to filming. Davey told a virtual meeting of the Broadcasting Press Guild that ... More

The UAE’s largest telecom operator Etisalat has debuted a new direct-to-consumer (D2C) service, SwitchTV, and looked to Synamedia’s Infinite cloud TV platform — and the compa... More

The number of drive-in cinemas across the U.K. has exploded from three to 40 during the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data from media measurement firm Comscore seen by Var... More

Portugal is to restart the migration of its DTT services away from the 700MHz band on August 3rd. The clearance process was suspended in March as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.... More

A new campaign is looking to reassure U.K. audiences about the COVID-19 safeguards set to roll out at cinemas across the country. Commissioned by the UK Cinema Association, a pair ... More

Media services specialist Red Bee announced 15th July it’s added new points of presence (POPs) for channel distribution in the UK and France, with three in London and one in Par... More

Amazon Prime customers in Germany now have access to live TV at no additional cost. Amazon has launched a linear TV package with 38 channels from public broadcasters, including 28 ... More

ZOO Digital, provider of cloud-based localisation and digital distribution services for the global entertainment industry, said it was looking to the future with optimism as it del... More

Piracy cost the Italian economy €1.1 billion last year, according to an Ipsos study for the Italian Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual Content (FAPAV). The negative imp... More

From dearth to excess; sports are back on TV with a vengeance to make up for lost time. The English Premier league, for example, is scheduled to cram in 92 matches between its June... More

UK cinemas will benefit from the temporary reduction in the rate of value-added-tax (VAT) to 5% from 20% for the hospitality sector announced, the Treasury has confirmed to Screen.... More

In a move including a multi-year extension of the first pay window and access to the studio’s rich film library, Sky and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) have agreed a new long-ter... More

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is set to ask Brussels for full control over the review and approval of the proposed merger of Liberty Global’s Virgin Media an... More

Sky Deutschland is reshaping its subscription prices and packages in Germany and Austria. Notably, for the first time Sky customers will be able to choose whether they want to sign... More

Smart TVs can now be found in 51 per cent of UK households according to figures from Ofcom. In its annual Online Nation report, the organisation found the number of households with... More

Thanks to a bumper crop of megahits, including the South Korean Oscar-winner Parasite and the British war drama 1917, Britain's cinema scene was experiencing something of a box off... More

The key players in the television station market are projected to stabilize at an annual growth rate of 6.9% and reach USD 158.42 billion by 2023, caused in great part by increasin... More

Heading into an unprecedented Virtual Cannes Market, buyers and sellers are navigating a new landscape that likely will provide the festival acquisitions template for the foreseeab... More

The German Bundesliga has announced the distribution of its domestic rights for the four seasons from 2021-22 with Sky, DAZN and Sat.1 all picking up matches. The value of the righ... More

Will shifting distribution patterns open even more opportunity for the thriving OTT sector?... More