Discovery-owned free-to-air broadcaster DMax has acquired Netflix original BoJack Horseman. The newly launched male-skewing UK entertainment channel has picked up local licensing rights to six series of the adult animation from Lionsgate. The programme, which follows the life of a formerly famous horse actor and sitcom star, will begin airing on 25 February. BoJack Horseman joins […]
Broadcast will remain a highly relevant platform for scripted drama, with some types of show better-suited to the syndication model than sales to streaming platforms, according to Kevin Beggs (right), chairman of independent producer Lionsgate. Speaking at the opening of the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Monday, Beggs said that the choice of distribution […]
This week, Hulu’s deal with Nick Weidenfeld, the former Adult Swim head of development, shows the increasing appetite networks are demonstrating towards adult toons. There has been a buzz at the start of this year around toons for grown-ups as every major SVOD platform has picked up at least one new series. Netflix kicked off […]
Amazon Studios has given the greenlight to a half-hour animated series from the team behind Netflix comedy BoJack Horseman. Undone is going straight to series on Amazon Prime Video following an order from Sharon Tal Yguado, head of scripted series at Amazon Studios. The show is from BoJack creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy, who […]
Netflix’s adult animation comedy-drama BoJack Horseman is headed for US syndication. LA-based distributor Debmar-Mercury, which specializes in syndaication deals, will take the quirky series to the basic cable market. This could interest the likes of TNT, AMC and FX. This marks an evolution for original Netflix commissions, which have long holdbacks in order for shows […]
With the Edinburgh International Television Festival coming up this month, TBI and Parrot Analytics have taken another look at the UK, and our second demand expressions chart has thrown up some significant results. As many predicted, Netflix nostalgia fest Stranger Things has become television’s most in-demand programme. Stranger Things has been the watercooler series of […]
Netflix is set to order a second season of its hit original drama Stranger Things. The US streaming company’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, told the Guardian newspaper it would be “dumb not to” greenlight a second run of the show, which is now widely credited as the TV hit of the summer. Sarandos did […]
The global Pokémon Go craze makes an impression on our charts this week in the Netherlands. The inclusion of Pokémon: the Series in our overall rankings shows how impactful the augmented reality app has been on media consumption trends. However, it is the ever presents – Orange is the New Black and Game of Thrones – […]
Our latest in-demand chart, this week coming from the southern European country of Italy, throws up familiar results and a couple of surprises. At the top of the rankings, Orange is the New Black and Game of Thrones rule supreme. OITNB edges slightly ahead of animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which has taken […]
Netflix users tend to burn through The Walking Dead and Orange is the New Black, but take their time on House of Cards and Bloodline, according to new data from the SVOD service. Netflix has revealed ‘The Binge Scale’, which it claims shows how customers in more than 190 countries consume more than 100 serialised […]
