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Walking Dead heads for PS3 in Russia

Zombie drama The Walking Dead is among the shows Russian on-demand platform Tvigle will offer Sony Playstation 3 owners following a launch on the console. Tvigle’s entire free-to-view library of more than 20,000 films and TV shows are now available for PS3 users. Key Tvigle television titles include The Walking Dead, Misfits, Skins and Luther. […]

Sony Entertainment Television launches on UK’s TalkTalk

Sony Pictures Television Networks has launched its general entertainment channel, Sony Entertainment Television, through UK pay TV operator TalkTalk for the first time. The network goes live today and will be available on channel 454 of TalkTalk’s YouView pay television service as part of the operator’s Entertainment and Entertainment Extra Boost packages. SET is a […]

Monster’s Video Killed the Radio Star to Sky

UK pay TV broadcaster Sky has acquired the latest season of Video Killed the Radio Star, the 13-part series about music videos. The show is produced by Ireland’s Monster Entertainment and MGMM. Monster sells it internationally and has struck a deal with Sky, which will transmit it on its Sky Arts 1 HD channel. It […]

Netflix and SVOD grow as premium TV declines

Subscription video-on-demand services such as Netflix have grown in popularity over the last two years as premium TV channel subscription numbers have declined, according to new research by The NPD Group. The US study claims that as of August 2013, 27% of US internet households subscribed to SVOD services – an increase of 4 percentage […]

Amazon gets on board Barbarella series

Streaming service Amazon has reportedly come on board the Barbarella TV series. The show, from Gaumont International Television, is being written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the writers of the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall, and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) will executive produce. French premium pay broadcaster Canal+ was announced as a broadcaster partner […]

Turner hires EMEA finance boss from Time Out

Turner International has recruited Aksel van der Wal (pictured) as senior VP, finance, for its EMEA operation, TBI has learned. Van der Wal joins today from entertainment publishing business Time Out where he was global CEO. At Turner he will work across the company’s channel brands, which include news net CNN, kids offerings Cartoon Network […]

Swedish cable launch for Netflix

Subscription video-on-demand service Netflix is available on Swedish cable operator Com Hem’s TiVo platform as of today. Netflix will be included in TiVo as an app, givingSwedish viewers to chance to view series including Hemlock Grove, Arrested Development, Orange is the New Black and Breaking Bad. The second season on Netflix original House of Cards […]

ABC1 drops children’s programming

Australian broadcaster ABC1 will move children’s programming to dedicated digital channels as the country completes its digital switchover, it was announced today. From 2 February children’s programmes – including mainstay Play School, which has been broadcast on the ABC since 1966 and acquired shows including Peppa Pig (pictured) – will be transmitted on ABC3 and […]

More management changes at CME

CEE-focused broadcast group CME has appointed industry veteran Pavel Stanchev boss of its operations in Bulgaria. He will replace Vicky Politova, who is leaving CME at the end of the month “to pursue other interests”. Stanchev will oversee the free-to-air BTV channel in Bulgaria. He joins from Antenna South-East Europe where, as CEO, he has […]

Armoza’s I Can do That! sells to Spain

Armoza-distributed format I Can Do That! has been acquired by Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Telecinco. The Spanish version of the show, in which celebrities undertake show-stopping features and challenges, will be made by Banijay’s production company Cuarzo. The show will bow on Telecinco later this year. The Spanish deal follows agreements announced last week in Belgium, […]