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Game of Thrones
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Star Channel becomes HBO’s Japanese partner
Japanese premium movie net Star Channel has become the territory’s exclusive home of HBO programming….
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Discovery, Netflix team for original drama
Discovery Canada has ordered Frontier, its first original drama, and Netflix has scooped the international…
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Huffington Post making doc series with Thrones star
Publishing group The Huffington Post is making #PowerShift today, a digital doc series fronted by…
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NOS claims SVOD headstart over Netflix
Portuguese pay TV operator Nos said that its new N Play subscription video-on-demand service passed…
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Portuguese Netflix rival launches
Portuguese pay TV operator Nos has launched a subscription video-on-demand service ahead of the arrival…
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‘Unashamedly ambitious’ Netflix rival launches
South African SVOD platform ShowMax has launched with “more than a year’s continuous viewing” for…
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HBO pulls Bulgarian channels in fees row
HBO Bulgaria has pulled its HBO and Cinemax services from pay TV operator Bulsatcom’s platform…
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Danish cable service adds HBO Nordic
Danish telco TDC has signed a deal to bring HBO Nordic, the premium content provider’s…
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Caroline Beaton: Why niche is the new normal
In an increasingly fragmented TV landscape, should broadcasters and producers focus more on niche formats…
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Game of Thrones premiere notches 18.1 million
The opening instalment of season five of Game of Thrones garnered a total of 18.1…
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Romanian launch for HBO Go
HBO’s TV Everywhere service HBO Go has launched on Digi Net and Digi TV in…
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Sky Germany going day-and-date with HBO
Sky Germany will start launching HBO series on the same day they go out on…
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HBO preps huge Game of Thrones simulcast
The upcoming season of Game of Thrones will launch simultaneously in 170 countries next month….
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Netflix ‘working up Zelda series, Ten deal’
Netflix is reportedly developing a series based on the popular Legend of Zelda video games,…
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Walking Dead feasts on social media
The Walking Dead generated more Tweets and had a larger audience on Twitter than any…
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Bell, Corus in ‘unprecedented’ HBO SVOD deal
Canada’s Bell Media and Corus Entertainment have scored what has been described as an “unprecedented”…
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Belgium’s BeTV pre-empts Netflix with TV Everywhere service
BeTV, the pay TV unit formerly known as Canal+ Belgium and owned by Belgian French…
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Channel 5 delves into Secret Italy, Underground Britain
Channel 5 has ordered a raft of new factual programming, including a new series about…
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Sky reports best customer growth in three years
BSkyB reported its highest customer growth in three years, with TV expansion alone double that…
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Game of Thrones crowned HBO’s most popular show ever
Game of Thrones has become the most-watched show ever on US premium cable net HBO….
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Shooting down the pirates
As startling new statistics reveal the scale of the illegal sharing of TV shows, TBI…
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OTT service Wuaki seals HBO deal
Streaming and download-to-own service Wuaki has snagged a raft of HBO content after striking a…
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HBO cuts Sky Italia programming deal
Sky Italia has agreed an exclusive programming deal with HBO as it prepares its own…
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HBO On Demand launches on Indian pay TV
Tata Sky subscribers with access to HBO premium channels in India can now access catch-up…
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Discovery Channel gets 3.4 million for Klondike
The Discovery Channel’s first scripted miniseries, Klondike, has delivered solid debut ratings of 3.4 million…
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E4 tries out ALT drama
UK youth-skewed channel E4 has commissioned a psychological drama-comedy in which “the worst case scenario…
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Sky’s NOW TV adds premium channel brands
UK satellite TV provider BSkyB has bolstered its pay-monthly OTT service NOW TV by adding…
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HBO entertainment president stepping down
Sue Naegle is stepping down from her role as HBO’s president of entertainment and reportedly…
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TNT orders Steven Bochco cop series Murder in the First
TNT has ordered a cop drama from Steven Bochco (NYPD Blue), Murder in the First….
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Tesco’s Blinkbox takes on Lovefilm, Netlflix in autumn offensive
Blinkbox is taking on Netflix and Lovefilm with its biggest ever marketing campaign. The UK…