Sky Media has announced that Prestige Flowers has renewed its sponsorship of Channel 5, following the success of its 2022 campaign. The seven-figure deal includes a 12-month sponsorship of Extraordinary Stories, running from April 2023 to April 2024, and a two-month sponsorship of Christmas Movies, running from November to December 2023. Since Prestige Flowers first […]
Afanti Events has announced that Hollywood A-List actor, Luke Evans, will headline the line up at the forthcoming Wales Screen Summit on 15-17 May 2023 at Cardiff’s Parkgate Hotel. The Welsh actor who has amassed a vast resume of acclaimed stage, television and film roles, will discuss his expansive career including his recent starring role in the BBC’s variety performance, Showtime […]
True Crime indie, FirstLookTV, has been commissioned by 5Star/Paramount to produce a 10-part documentary series, Sleeping With My Murderer. The seres will document ten tragically ill-fated love stories. Reflecting upon the early signs of abuse, it exposes weaknesses in the systems designed to police and protect people from this potentially lethal behaviour, with contributions from […]
My5, the broadcast VoD service from Channel 5, is now available on Sky Glass TVs and the Sky Stream service, bringing viewers live and on-demand programming from Channel 5. To launch the app, users can simply say, “Hello Sky, open My 5”, to their Sky Glass or “My 5” into their voice remote, or find […]
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom is seeking views on whether to remove some or all of the stricter advertising rules that apply to commercially-funded public service broadcasters. All UK broadcasters are subject to restrictions on the quantity and scheduling of advertising on their channels. But under rules introduced over 30 years ago, the public service broadcasting […]
Sky Media has announced that pet insurance provider, ManyPets, will be sponsoring the Channel 5 genre strand known as Animal Tales, for over a year, starting from April 14th. The sponsorship will help bring to air a range of premium animal content across Channel 5, 5 Select and My5, including The Yorkshire Vet and new […]
The rights to The Mother, a gripping new novel written by TM Logan, have been snapped up by Gaumont UK. The UK arm of global production company Gaumont will develop the thriller as a returning drama series. Famed for gritty narratives and seriously addictively storytelling, TM Logan’s The Mother is an adrenaline fuelled thriller, full of unpredictable twists. […]
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 […]
Britain’s biggest broadcasters will get new privileges and freedoms to make more hit shows and better compete with global streaming giants under new draft legislation. The government claims the draft Media Bill will enable public service broadcasters (PSBs) – the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, STV and S4C – to unleash their potential to […]
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 […]