European streamer SkyShowtime has acquired two new original series – Mentiras Pasajeras and Las Invisibles – for Spain and Portugal. Both shows will be available to stream later in the year. Produced by Paramount and El Deseo, Mentiras Pasajeras (aka Fleeting Lies), will premiere at Series Mania on 20 March. Starring Hugo Silva and Elena Anaya, 8 x 30-minute […]
Fulwell hires RDF duo UK & US The Kardashians prodcucer Fulwell 73 Productions has appointed RDF Media execs Rachel Arnold and Jon Green as creative directors of UK formats. The duo, who jointly led the creative team at Banijay-backed RDF, will join in February, reporting to CEO Johnny Moore. Arnold and Green previously founded Definitely, […]
A rapid-fire succession of headlines this week has illuminated what comes next for Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) international content strategy, as light finally broke through the fog of uncertainty hanging over a smorgasbord of canned HBO Max shows. The news last year that HBO Max was stripping shows, u-turning on commissions and closing down original […]
SkyShowtime, the recently launched Comcast and Paramount joint-streamer, has acquired 21 former HBO Max European originals in a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The service has picked up exclusive European rights to 168 episodes – more than 150 hours in total – of both new, unaired shows and programming that previously premiered on HBO […]
SkyShowtime has gone live in swathes of Europe, as the Comcast and Paramount joint-streamer revealed launch dates for its expansion into Central and Eastern Europe. The service, which offers shows such as Sylvester Stallone’s Tulsa King and Yellowstone prequel 1923, will become available in Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro from […]
Comcast and Paramount-owned streamer SkyShowtime is to launch in the Netherlands and Portugal on 25 October. The launches follow SkyShowtime’s launch across the Nordics last month. Customers in the two countries will have access to exclusive television premieres of first-run theatrical films, new and exclusive scripted series, kids and family content and a selection of […]
SkyShowtime has named a Paramount exec to work across its roll-out of the soon-to-launch streamer. David Urgell becomes VP of distribution & partnerships at SkyShowtime, the Comcast and Paramount-operated service that yesterday revealed its launch plans for the Nordics. Urgell had most recently been SVP of strategy, operations & business development at Paramount’s international streaming division, […]
Comcast and Paramount have unveiled the launch date, cost and show line-up for its combined streamer SkyShowtime. The streamer, first revealed in mid-2021, will debut on 20 September in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, followed by an expansion into the Netherlands later in Q4. The roll-out will continue across Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) […]
Pan-European streamer SkyShowtime has appointed former HBO Max exec Roberto Soto as chief strategy officer and named Disney alum John Heinemann as general counsel. Both will join the company later this year, with Soto arriving from his role as SVP & head of growth marketing for EMEA at the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer, which is […]
Pan-European streamer SkyShowtime has appointed BBC Studios’ Jon Farrar as head of programming. Farrar will be responsible for programming strategy, overseeing the Paramount and Comcast-backed service’s pipeline of partner studio content, and building a programming team across SkyShowtime’s markets to develop original and local content. Farrar will also lead the acquisitions, scheduling and editorial, and content […]
