AVOD streamer Pluto TV is to launch three UK channels using content from the VOD platform of its Viacom stablemate Channel 5, focusing on crime, documentary and medical programming. Pluto TV, which was acquired by Viacom for $340m six months ago, will launch My5 Crime, My5 Documentaries and My5 GPs: Behind Closed Doors channels on […]
Viacom’s UK broadcaster Channel 5 has acquired exclusive AVOD rights to Red Arrow Studios International’s Australian drama series Bad Mothers for its VOD service. The 8 x 45 minute show will make its premiere on My5 on September 2 and has been produced by Jungle Entertainment with Filthy Productions, originally for Nine Network in Oz […]
Viacom-owned UK broadcaster Channel 5 has ordered its first shows from BBC Studios’ Science Unit, which will explore the science behind weight gain and sleeping issues. Why Do I Put On Weight? (1 x 60 minute, pictured) draws on the latest research to challenge long-held assumptions about getting fat, while Why Can’t I Sleep? (2 […]
DRG serves up sales for ‘Remarkable Places To Eat’ BBC Two’s Remarkable Places To Eat has been sold into a raft of broadcasters in Europe and Australia by DRG. SBS Australia, DR TV (Denmark), VTM (Belgium), RTL’s CLT-UFA (Luxembourg and Netherlands) have all bought the programme, alongside P & P Permissions and Rights covering Bosnia […]
UK regulator Ofcom has announced a new set of measures to improve the chances of PSBs against the threat posed by international streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. In an announcement made on July 4, Ofcom detailed that it is setting out a “package of measures, including recommendations to Government, to support PSB […]
The former head of acquisitions for Viacom-owned Channel 5 in the UK has left the company to take up a similar role working across movies for pay TV operator Sky. Katie Keenan (pictured) will become head of acquisitions at Comcast-backed Sky next month, with a remit to oversee all movie deals across the pay TV […]
Channel 5 has launched a new initiative to encourage more BAME-owned and managed indie production companies to work with the broadcaster. C5 is looking for nine small or medium sized BAME companies, primarily in the regions, which are owned and managed by BAME off-screen talent. They will be matched with C5’s nine-strong commissioning team. C5 […]
Channel 5 has commissioned Jazz Gowans’ Transparent TV for a two-part series exploring the problems plaguing the UK’s Conservative Party. Portillo: The Trouble With The Tory Party features Michael Portillo — a former Secretary of State for Defence and leadership candidate — meeting the leaders, power brokers and party insiders who have attempted to navigate the UK […]
Crackit Productions has won commissions for seven stand-alone ‘shock docs’ from 5STAR and Channel 5. The hour-long one-offs will TX across 5STAR and Channel 5 over the next six months and have titles such as: My Mother the Monster; My Dad The Paedophile; Snatched And Sold for Sex; Eating Ourselves To Death; Hoarders: Buried Alive In My Bedroom; Teacher’s Pet […]
Viacom-backed VOD service My5 will host the UK premieres of two dramas from Sony Pictures Television. The platform has picked up OTT-originated dramas The Oath and Bloom, which will both air on My5 as first-run exclusives in the UK, bolstering the platform’s drama slate. Mystery drama Bloom (6 x 60 minutes) originally aired on Australian […]
