Parthenon


Sky Vision to show Fortitude

Sky Vision is set to land international rights to upcoming big-budget drama Fortitude, TBI understands. The scripted series will bow on Sky Atlantic, the BSkyB entertainment pay TV channel, and on premium cable network Starz in the US. Starz has TV, digital and home entertainment rights across North America to the show, which is being […]

Sky Vision making Bannockburn docudrama for History UK

History UK has ordered Bannockburn (WT) a one-off event docudrama from Sky Vision. The factual channel is run as part of UK pay TV operator BSKyB’s joint venture with A+E and the two-hour film will examine how the Scottish forces defeated the much larger and better equipped English army. It will go out on History […]

Prisoners firm Keshet poaches BBC Worldwide executive

Keshet International has appointed a BBC Worldwide distribution exec to become a sales director. Cynthia Kennedy has joined the global arm of Israel’s Keshet Media Group with immediate effect, reporting to head of distribution and acquisitions Keren Shahar. She joins a team of sales directors including Nelly Weber-Feld and Kelly Wright and marcom manager Limor […]

The vision for Sky Vision

Carl Hall and Sophie Turner Laing tell TBI about how the freshly minted Sky Vision will be adding Sky’s upcoming original dramas to its slate as well as working with Sky News and Sky Sports to bring new programming to market. Distribution guarantees mean Sky can fully fund Plans to package and sell Sky News […]

BSkyB rebrands Parthenon as Sky Vision, to launch at MIPCOM

British pay operator BSkyB is rebranding Parthenon to Sky Vision following its acquisition of the international distributor. The new company is launching at MIPCOM with a raft of documentary series including David Attenborough’s 4x1hour Kingdom of Plants and Galapagos, both of which are produced by Atlantic Productions. TBI understands that the new company is also […]