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Brassic 2 becomes Sky’s most binged returning comedy

The return of Sky original Brassic to Sky One and streaming service NOW TV has seen fans binging the entire season as a box set in record time for the broadcaster. To date, the new series has seen 5.9 million requested downloads. The second season launched with a seven-day cumulative audience of 1.51 million for […]

June 29, 2020

Disney to close UK linear channels

Disney has confirmed that, from October 1st, its Disney+ D2C service will be the exclusive UK home for content from Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney Junior – effectively ending the carriage of the linear channels by UK pay-TV platforms BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media. “The direct-to-consumer service, which garnered more that 54.5 million […]

June 26, 2020By Colin Mann

Sky releases trailer for Little Birds

The first trailer has been released for the Sky original Little Birds, brought to screens by BAFTA-nominated Warp Films (The Virtues) and starring Juno Temple, Yumna Marwan, Hugh Skinner, Nina Sosanya, David Costabile, Raphael Acloque, Rossy de Palma and Amy Landecker. All episodes of the brand new drama series will be available on Sky and […]

June 26, 2020

Sky launches trailer for Brave New World

Sky has released the trailer for Brave New World, a Sky original, coming this autumn to Sky One and streaming service NOW TV. The trailer can be viewerd here. Based on Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel, Brave New World imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, […]

June 26, 2020

Sky Italia given deadline for Serie A payment

Italy’s Serie A has set a July 12th deadline for Sky Italia to pay the last instalment for the TV rights, otherwise it faces a football blackout until the end of the season. Much like the English Premier League, the season restarted last week, and is currenly scheduled to end on August 2nd. The pay-TV […]

June 25, 2020From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Sky, AMC partner for Gangs of London season 2

Sky has ordered a second season of its record-breaking Sky Original drama, Gangs of London. The first series is the biggest Sky Original drama launch on Sky Atlantic of the past five years with a 7-day cumulative audience of over 2.2 million viewers for the opening episode. Gangs of London is also Sky’s most binged […]

June 24, 2020

Sky, Discovery expanded deal

Sky and Discovery have agreed a new long-term, multi-faceted partnership across the UK and Ireland, Germany and Austria. Discovery’s portfolio of real-life entertainment channels, including Discovery Channel, will continue to be showcased across the Sky platforms in the UK, and on the Sky Deutschland platforms in Germany and Austria. The Discovery Channel will continue to be […]

June 22, 2020

Sky Deutschland reveals content plan “for a new era”

Sky Deutschland has announced a major new content plan to that it says will “shakeup TV in Germany and take Sky into a new era”. Sky will deliver its plan through a combination of partnerships and development of its entertainment, movies and sports offering – and it starts with an extension of Sky’s deal with […]

June 22, 2020

NBCU, Sky name ad leadership team

NBCUniversal and Sky have named the leadership team for the companies’ new One Platform Global Advertising & Partnerships offering. Newly-named President & Managing Director of Global Advertising & Partnerships KC Sullivan will lead the unified Global Advertising & Partnerships Team, and bring this offering to market. Sullivan, who most recently served as President & Managing […]

June 18, 2020

Moonbug launches channel on Sky Kids

Moonbug, a global entertainment company that develops and distributes values-based content for kids, has launched the Moonbug channel on Sky Kids. Families in the UK and Ireland with Sky can now access Moonbug’s kids’ content, ad-free, through the new VoD channel, including global sensation Little Baby Bum, Go Buster, Playtime with Twinkle, Digley and Dazey, […]

June 16, 2020