Paramount+, the streaming service from Paramount, and Formula 1 have announced an official promotional partnership for the 2023-2024 season, marking the first of its kind partnership for the sport. With the deal, Paramount+ becomes an Official Partner of Formula 1. The partnership will see the streamer’s content offering come to life at Formula 1 events, […]
Channel 5 has commissioned MGM Alternative UK to make a new two-part series exploring what happens when kids are unleashed into the world without parental supervision, it announced today. The series, Who Let the Kids Out? (w/t), looks at what various groups of children – between 9 and 10 years of age – get up to when encountering a plethora of […]
Paramount+ will commission 150 non-US originals by 2025, EVP and international general manager Marco Nobili told Series Mania. The streamer, launched in March 2021, claims it has achieved an “impressive” global rollout into 45 markets. “Streaming is a game you have to play at scale” says Nobili, who defends the hybrid development approach, balancing D2C […]
Christian Kurz, SVP, Global Streaming Research and Insights at Paramount, has revealed findings from a new research study on free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) that uncovers what is behind the rapid growth of the category, with audiences emphasising simplicity, ease of use and good content. Speaking at the Connected TV World Summit in London, Kurz […]
SVoD service Paramount+ is to launch the ‘Basic Plan’ in Latin America, its first-ever mobile-only streaming subscription plan. Launching April 18th in Brazil and Mexico, what Paramount describes as a “competitively-priced” plan will enable subscribers to stream the service’s catalogue of entertainment on one mobile device or tablet at a time, uninterrupted and without ads. […]
Haivision, a provider of mission-critical, real-time video networking and visual collaboration solutions, has announced that the SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) protocol has garnered much support within the broadcast and streaming industries, with over 600 solution and service providers joining the SRT Alliance within six years. The latest members of the SRT Alliance include Paramount, Cloudflare, […]
Paramount Global is considering the sale of a majority stake in BET Media Group, which includes the BET cable network, BET Studios and VH1, according to Reuters. BET drew expressions of interest from Byron Allen, whose Allen Media Group’s assets include The Weather Channel. Tyler Perry, the actor and producer best known for the Madea […]
OTT TV episode and movie revenues for 19 Latin American countries will increase by $7 billion (€6.6bn) between 2022 and 2028 to reach $16 billion, according to the Latin America OTT TV and Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. AVoD and SVoD will each add $3 billion over this period. SVoD will […]
Paramount+, CBC and Piazza Entertainment have announced that production has begun on the sophomore season of the high-stakes medical drama series SkyMed. Filming in Ontario and Manitoba, the young medics and pilots flying air ambulances return for more life, death and drama in the skies of remote Northern Canada. The original series will be available […]
Channel 5 has commissioned ITN Productions to make a new 4 x 60’ weekly series, Vanished, focussing on people who have gone missing across the UK. Presented live by 5 News’ Dan Walker, it will focus on current stories of missing persons as well as cases from the past few years. Every 90 seconds someone […]