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Hulu expands ESPN’s ‘Chad Powers’ sketch into full series

US streamer Hulu has ordered Chad Powers, a half-hour comedy series based on an Eli Manning sketch that aired on ESPN+. The series hails from 20th Television and is being created by Glen Powell and Michael Waldron, with US quarterback Manning serving as exec producer alongside the pair. Also exec producing are Omaha Productions’ Peyton […]

Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery & Fox join forces to launch US sports streamer

Disney’s ESPN, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Fox have joined forces to launch a new sports streamer aimed at reasserting the companies’ positions within the US streaming landscape. The trio will create a joint venture service that will house a raft of sports rights held by the companies, ranging from the NFL and NBA to […]

News round-up: DR1 orders menopause show; Moonbug & Toikido play ‘PeaKeeBoo’; ESPN & Disney to tell Brittney Griner story

DR1 orders menopause show The Danish Broadcasting Corporation has ordered factual series Welcome To the Menopause (Velkommen til Overgangsalderen) for flagship channel DR1 and catch-up service DRTV. Produced by Pineapple Entertainment, the series follows researchers, everyday Danes, and some famous faces as they come together to shine a spotlight on the often overlooked topic of […]

Amazon, ESPN & CBS strike multi-year deals for National Women’s Soccer League coverage

Women’s sport is achieving growing recognition and interest from major streamers and networks as Amazon-owned Prime Video, Disney sports channel ESPN and Paramount’s CBS Sports have all struck multi-year rights deals with the US National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) for the upcoming 2024 season. Over the past few years, the National Women’s Soccer League has […]

Disney’s int’l content chief exits, as new-look structure emerges

Disney’s chairman of international content & operations is leaving the company in the wake of its restructuring unveiled yesterday, with more details emerging over the new-look divisions. Rebecca Campbell had been with the Mouse House for 26 years and was most recently leading local and regional content production for its streamers, having been promoted 12 […]

TBI Weekly: How Disney’s banking on turning content into cash

Disney will be 100 years old in 2023, but what does the Mouse House have in store for the final 12 months of its first century? Richard Middleton picks apart the company’s recent results and finds out it’s mostly “content, content, content”. Disney has come a long way since it first entered the entertainment industry […]

Disney plans $16bn content spend, 350m subs target & raft of new originals

The Walt Disney Company has announced plans to spend between $14-$16bn on content for its streamers, Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+, by 2024, as it revealed it has already surpassed 137 million paid subscriptions across its DTC services. Disney aims to increase this to 300-350 million subscribers by 2024 and has also set a target of […]

TBI Tech & Analysis: Six streaming super-trends for 2021

Tony Gunnarsson, principal analyst for media & entertainment at TBI sibling OMDIA, reflects on a watershed year for streaming and picks out the ramifications and key trends set to affect the business in 2021 and beyond. The acceleration of cord-cutting and online video adoption during Covid-19, coupled with aggressive expansion of next-gen direct-to-consumer (D2C) services, […]

TBI Tech & Analysis: Tracking Amazon Prime & Hulu’s next moves

Amazon Prime Video and Hulu might look like similar streamers on the surface but underneath the bonnet, their respective owners have experienced Covid-19 in considerably different ways. Sarah Henschel and Max Signorelli, analysts at TBI sibling Omdia, explore how subscription numbers at Amazon’s Prime operation and Disney-owned Hulu might fare against three different scenarios. The […]

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