French broadcasters and film groups create body to protect France’s audiovisual sector
La Filière Audiovisuelle (LaFA) unites rival broadcasters in the face of rapid industry change.
UK SVoD ad tier usage grows
Barb survey showed that the number of UK homes on the Netflix ad tier had risen by 37% in Q3.
Screenworks Asia adds ‘Marriage Exposed’ to its slate at Taiwan Creative Content Fest
The Taiwanese company also unveiled starry cast for series two of buzzy ‘The World Between Us’.
See-Saw Films appoints M&A specialist to explore sale or investment
Broadcast has learned the company has appointed M&A specialist investment bank ACF to assess its options for the future.
Apple TV+’s ‘Sunny’ starring Rashida Jones cancelled after one season (exclusive)
The mystery drama from A24 was filmed in Japan.
Cádiz’s South International Series Festival unveils fiction and non-fiction competitions
The second edition of the series event has secured 12 world premieres of fiction and non-fiction works.
Ketchup Entertainment partners with Zero Gravity Management on new high-end TV division (exclusive)
Ketchup to distribute slate. Partners anticipate releasing inaugural series by mid-2025.
Max launch confirmed for seven Asian territories in November
The streaming service is heading to Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong among others.
Netflix’s ‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’ to debut in December
Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation employed a crew of hundreds, and more than 20,000 extras.
‘Baby Reindeer’ lawsuit can go ahead, rules judge
A US-based judge has ruled that Fiona Harvey’s £132m case against Netflix drama Baby Reindeer can be pursued on the grounds of defamation after the show was wrongly billed as a “true story.”
Sky sues Warner over ‘Harry Potter’ series and Max co-funding deal
The European pay TV giant says deal breaches cost it “hundreds of millions of dollars” of lost revenue.
Banijay, All3Media heads on the appeal of Europe as a production hub
“There’s also the necessity from the platform side to find more cost-effective ways of making programming.”
UK culture secretary: centralisation of TV industry should “shame us all”
“If you aren’t commissioning content from every part of the country – towns and villages as well as major cities – why not?”
