1001 Nights


Egyptian telco adds Mid East SVOD platform

Egyptian internet service provider TE Data has begun offering customers Middle Eastern subscription on-demand service icflix. The Telecoms Egypt-owned service has scored a strategic partnership with icflix, and this month began offering the platform’s array of movies and television series from the Middle East, Hollywood and Bollywood. All TE Data customers have been given one […]

Mid East SVOD service expands

Middle Eastern subscription on-demand service icflix has launched in Kuwait. Icflix has formed a strategic partnership with Ooredoo Kuwait to offer the platform locally. Ooredoo (fka Qatar Telecom) will offer the service free for two months to its Shamel tier customers for a promotional period. Non-Shamel can access it for 2.4KD (US$7.99) a month. The […]

Supply and demand in Latin America

TBI and Eurodata TV look at the latest trends in TV viewing in Latin America and find that amid the still-popular classic telenovelas, the format is being reinvented and that a healthy market in imported drama from the Spain, the US and elsewhere exists Latin America remains a drama market, but the type of series […]

Turkish drama 1001 Nights sells in CEE

A pair of broadcasters in Central and Eastern Europe and one in Iran has acquired Turkish drama series 1001 Nights from distributor Global Agency. LNK in Lithuania, Kanal 2 in Estonia and TV Persia in Iran have all bought the show, which ran on Kanal D from 2006 to 2009 and was known in Turkey […]