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Roku is set to launch the Olympic Channel on its platform, which will include exclusive footage around various sports.  The channel will include a 24/7 live stream and more than 400 episodes from the Olympic Channel...

BBC Studios and Germany’s ZDF have struck a strategic partnership to develop and co-produce a slate of new content. The long-term agreement will see the two organisations co-develop scripted and landmark factual...

Canada’s CBC will reboot hit competition series Battle of the Blades for its fifth season this autumn. The revitalised series combines figure skating and hockey athletes and pair them for a live, high-stakes figure...

Oxford Scientific Films (OSF), part of the ITV Studios-owned Boom Cymru group, has appointed BBC alum Lucinda Axelsson as executive producer. Axelsson is a multi-award-winning executive producer whose recent credits...

Netflix bosses have promised to reveal more data around the viewership of its programming after reporting a 22% revenue rise for Q1, 2019. Chief content officer Ted Sarandos said that the streamer would be rolling out...

Viacom’s BET has commissioned 10-part docu-series Copwatch America from London-LA based prodco Renowned Films and Critical Content. Copwatch America is a high-stakes, controversial dive into the men and women on the...

Hulu has struck a deal with AT&T to take back a 9.5% minority stake from the company for $1.43bn, as the telecoms and media business looks to reduce its debt. The transaction valued Hulu a $15bn. It did not require...

YouTube has hired Fox veteran Alex Piper to head up unscripted as it continues to shift its programming strategy. Piper was formerly VP of alternative programming at Fox, where he led development on series such as So...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is set to honour Red Production’s Nicola Shindler and broadcaster and journalist Joan Bakewell at the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards (12...

China’s Tencent has picked up a Chinese adaptation of Australian series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Originally created by Every Cloud Productions, and based on books by Kerry Greenwood, the initial series...

British Bake Off alum Nadiya Hussein is set to deliver the opening keynote interview at this year’s Children’s Media Conference (CMC), which takes place 2-4 July in Sheffield, UK. Since winning The Great British...

HITN, the Spanish-language network that offers educational and entertainment content across the US, has struck a pact with Sesame Workshop which will become a primary provider of content for its new SVOD,...

Mentorn Media has expanded its senior team with ITN Productions exec Bernie Kay, who will join the company to the newly created role of head of factual. Kay will bolster Mentorn’s slate of talent-led projects, factual...

Viacom International Studios confirmed a raft of international sales for new scripted, comedy and animated titles at MIPTV. The UK’s Channel 4 (C4) picked up new Comedy Central scripted series The Other Two, which...

A forecast from research firm Digital TV Research shows that Disney + is set to reach as many as 75m subscribers by 2024. On Thursday (11 April) Disney outlined its plans for its Disney + platform to investors and...

YouTube has cancelled four  shows as it continues to roll back its Premium strategy and sets its focus on free-to-view unscripted shows and specials. Axed titles will include Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television,...

Former Apple executives Sebastien Janin and Andy Docherty, together with ex-Warner Bros. exec Chris Law, have launched a European production company focused on high-end TV and film. The Media Musketeers label will...

BBC One is set to air Attaboy TV’s The Gatwick Drone Attack on its Panorama strand next week (15 April).  The episode is based on the back of the Gatwick drone attack in December 2018, where over 1,000 flights...