Channel 4 Puts 1,000 Hours Of Shows On YouTube
British broadcaster Channel 4 has signed a deal with YouTube to put 1,000 hours of programming on the Google-owned streaming platform. The agreement expands on an existing partnership between the companies and will allow Channel 4 to sell its own advertising around the show — a first-of-its-kind deal in the UK and Europe. Shows will begin rolling out this month and include 8 Out Of 10 Cats; Location, Location, Location; Nikki Grahame: Who Is She?, Sas: Who Dares Wins and The Dog House. Selected titles will be made available 30 days after their first broadcast on Channel 4 or younger sibling network E4. Channel 4 has been following a five-year ‘Future 4’ strategy to supercharge digital revenues, and its management believes today’s deal represents a “major step” in that process.
Sky Orders Children’s Authors Series ‘Wonderland’; Abacus Media Rights To Sell
Sky Arts has ordered four-part literary documentary series Wonderland.
British broadcaster Channel 4 has signed a deal with YouTube to put 1,000 hours of programming on the Google-owned streaming platform. The agreement expands on an existing partnership between the companies and will allow Channel 4 to sell its own advertising around the show — a first-of-its-kind deal in the UK and Europe. Shows will begin rolling out this month and include 8 Out Of 10 Cats; Location, Location, Location; Nikki Grahame: Who Is She?, Sas: Who Dares Wins and The Dog House. Selected titles will be made available 30 days after their first broadcast on Channel 4 or younger sibling network E4. Channel 4 has been following a five-year ‘Future 4’ strategy to supercharge digital revenues, and its management believes today’s deal represents a “major step” in that process.
Sky Orders Children’s Authors Series ‘Wonderland’; Abacus Media Rights To Sell
Sky Arts has ordered four-part literary documentary series Wonderland.
- 5/11/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Discovery Italy To Adapt BBC Studios Formats ‘The Great British Sewing Bee’ And This Is My House’
Discovery in Italy has commissioned local-language versions of The Great British Sewing Bee and This is My House after striking deals with distributor BBC Studios. Reality competition show The Great British Sewing Bee, originally from Love Productions, will be known as Tailor Made – Chi Ha La Stoffa?, with local producer Blu Yazmine producing ahead of a June debut on streamer Discovery+. A linear debut will follow on Real Time. This is My House, in which celebrities guess whose home they are seeing, was created by Richard Bacon and Nick Weidenfeld and made by producer Expectation for BBC1, will be renamed Questa è Casa Mia and aired on Real Time next month.
Irvine Welsh’s Itvx Drama ‘Crime’ Sells Globally
A host of broadcasters have bought Britbox/Itvx’s Irvine Welsh-created police drama Crime.
Discovery in Italy has commissioned local-language versions of The Great British Sewing Bee and This is My House after striking deals with distributor BBC Studios. Reality competition show The Great British Sewing Bee, originally from Love Productions, will be known as Tailor Made – Chi Ha La Stoffa?, with local producer Blu Yazmine producing ahead of a June debut on streamer Discovery+. A linear debut will follow on Real Time. This is My House, in which celebrities guess whose home they are seeing, was created by Richard Bacon and Nick Weidenfeld and made by producer Expectation for BBC1, will be renamed Questa è Casa Mia and aired on Real Time next month.
Irvine Welsh’s Itvx Drama ‘Crime’ Sells Globally
A host of broadcasters have bought Britbox/Itvx’s Irvine Welsh-created police drama Crime.
- 4/5/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Beyond Rights and Insight TV Team Up for New Branded Block
Beyond Rights and top millennial-targeted digital channels provider Insight TV have struck a new alliance, which will see the launch of Beyond branded blocks on Insight TV’s science and technology-centered InWonder channel. The Beyond branded blocks will initially play on primetime weekends in North America, drawing from Beyond Rights’s extensive catalogue of science and engineering programming with such titles as “How Hacks Work” and “Wicked Inventions.” “We will work closely together over the coming months to measure the audience response, looking to build towards a range of branded Fast channels,” said David Smyth, CEO of Beyond Rights.
Prime Entertainment Group Boosts Docu Slate with Zona Mixta Acquisitions
Paris-based documentary producer and distributor Prime Entertainment Group has picked up some historical documentaries from Spanish production shingle Zona Mixta in a bid to diversify its catalog of high-end documentaries.
Beyond Rights and top millennial-targeted digital channels provider Insight TV have struck a new alliance, which will see the launch of Beyond branded blocks on Insight TV’s science and technology-centered InWonder channel. The Beyond branded blocks will initially play on primetime weekends in North America, drawing from Beyond Rights’s extensive catalogue of science and engineering programming with such titles as “How Hacks Work” and “Wicked Inventions.” “We will work closely together over the coming months to measure the audience response, looking to build towards a range of branded Fast channels,” said David Smyth, CEO of Beyond Rights.
Prime Entertainment Group Boosts Docu Slate with Zona Mixta Acquisitions
Paris-based documentary producer and distributor Prime Entertainment Group has picked up some historical documentaries from Spanish production shingle Zona Mixta in a bid to diversify its catalog of high-end documentaries.
- 4/5/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Adrian Munsey's Classic Film Productions has partnered with David A. Stern and D. Matt Geller's Sleeping Giant Films to develop Em Forster's 1907 novel, The Longest Journey, as a feature. They’ve hired Angus Fletcher to adapt; his Sand Dogs made the 2009 Black List, the same year he won a Nicholl Fellowship. Munsey, Stern and Geller are producing. Forster, whose classic novels include Howards End, A Room With A View and A Passage To India centered The Longest J…...
- 11/2/2016
- Deadline
London-based outfit’s home entertainment sales clients also include Dogwoof and Pecadillo Pictures.
UK distribution and sales outfit Network has added two clients to its home entertainment sales portfolio: distributor Odyssey and production house 3Dd.
Distributor Odyssey was founded by Adrian Munsey in 1981 and specialises in releasing true story feature films and television movies. Its slate includes Prince William And Prince Harry: Into The Future and Princess Diana – A Day In The Life.
“We’re incredibly excited to work with the team at Network; they have a real understanding of film and home entertainment in the current market and their commitment, knowledge and enthusiasm make working together a pleasure,” commented Munsey.
Production house 3Dd specialises in factual and historical programming including How To Win The Us Presidency and Raiders Of The Lost Art.
“For us, the move to Network was an obvious choice. It is the leading distributor on a whole range of titles, from recognisable...
UK distribution and sales outfit Network has added two clients to its home entertainment sales portfolio: distributor Odyssey and production house 3Dd.
Distributor Odyssey was founded by Adrian Munsey in 1981 and specialises in releasing true story feature films and television movies. Its slate includes Prince William And Prince Harry: Into The Future and Princess Diana – A Day In The Life.
“We’re incredibly excited to work with the team at Network; they have a real understanding of film and home entertainment in the current market and their commitment, knowledge and enthusiasm make working together a pleasure,” commented Munsey.
Production house 3Dd specialises in factual and historical programming including How To Win The Us Presidency and Raiders Of The Lost Art.
“For us, the move to Network was an obvious choice. It is the leading distributor on a whole range of titles, from recognisable...
- 8/15/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
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