Banijay has appointed the former MD of Twitter in France to a newly created role tasked with overseeing its digital expansion. Damien Viel becomes chief digital & marketing officer for the French production and distribution firm, taking charge of the group’s “digital diversification strategies” and tasked with pushing innovation globally. He reports into Banijay CEO […]
Germany’s ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) has hired former Twitter and Endemol Shine Group exec Michael Kollatschny to lead its digital production division. He will become MD of ZDF Digital Mediaproduktion from January, with a remit to lead the multimedia arm of the German broadcaster, which creates, develops and produces IP and content for national and international buyers. […]
Question Time, The Andrew Marr Show and Doctor Who were the first, second and third most-tweeted about BBC TV shows of 2018, TV Licensing has revealed. According to the TV Licensing’s stats, BBC news and current affairs programmes regularly sparked opinion and debate on social media, with nine of the twenty most-tweeted about shows falling into these categories. The […]
Banijay Group is set for a revival of its dating format Temptation Island, which last aired on Fox in 2013, as it also reveals plans for a new Twitter collaboration. USA Network is in advanced negotiations for the format which sees real life couples put their love to the test on an island of singletons, […]
ABC has cancelled its lead series Roseanne after its star Roseanne Barr sent a controversial tweet about a former staffer under President Obama, Valerie Jarrett. On Tuesday, Barr tweeted “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes = vj”. The tweet has since been deleted by Barr after many criticised the star for the seemingly race […]
Former Twitter and BBC executive Dan Biddle is joining Facebook’s EMEA team as strategic partnerships manager for broadcast, production and film. In a tweet, Biddle was he was “looking forward to working with the most creative people in media to made video as social and impactful as possible”. Biddle has most recently been working as […]
With analysts this week claiming sports remains the critical factor in pay TV subscriptions, Iain McDonald from Lewis Silkin argues the battle for sports rights offers a glimpse into the future of television. With the arrival of US tech giants onto the scene, television has undergone a radical transformation over the last decade – a […]
Discovery Communications has hired the global head of TV at social media service Twitter, Fred Graver. The industry veteran will become senior VP of digital content and social for Discovery Digital, the division that Karen Leever oversees. Graver will oversee Discovery’s digital networks teams across the US, and report to Discovery’s executive VP and general […]
Chinese regulators have ruled that three of the countries major internet groups much stop streaming audio and video services as part of a drive by the country’s authorities to restrict the availability of online content. The ban onstreaming has been placed on microblogging site Sina Weibo, news portal iFeng and video streaming platform ACFUN. Sina […]
Just 11% of Turkish internet users watched Netflix in the past month, compared to a 13-country average of 24% of viewers, according to Ampere Analysis. The research firm described Netflix viewing levels as “low” in the country, despite a prolific level of online video viewing on smartphones and the SVOD giant saying it had gone […]
