Subscription VOD service Amazon Prime Video has again secured rights to a CBS summer drama series. The streamer has secured exclusive US streaming and download rights to Salvation, with episodes launching four days after their broadcast debut on linear TV. The suspense thriller series follows a tech superstar and an MIT graduate who discover an […]
US subscription on-demand platform CBS All Access is set to ramp up programming activity after appointing an original content chief. CBS Television Studio’s head of drama, Julie McNamara is moving across to its CBS sister to become executive VP, original content. Senior VP, drama development at CBS Entertainment Bryan Seabury will replace her at the […]
The international arm of CBS has struck a programming deal with Chinese streaming service PPTV. The deal between PPTV and CBS Studios International covers a raft of series from the CBS network line-up and from the Showtime premium cable net. The agreement covers the CBS summer event series, which have included Under the Dome (pictured), […]
US broadcaster CBS has given the greenlight to a new summer event series to its 2016 line-up after axing Extant, which currently runs in a similar time slot. The straight-to-series commission of American Gothic marks the third time Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television will create a summer drama for CBS, coming after the high-rating Under the […]
Amazon Prime Instant Video has taken exclusive US streaming rights to broadcast network CBS’s next three summer event series. Amazon has licensed all of CBS’s previous summer drama originals, Under the Dome, Extant and Zoo, and will now get the efforts for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 seasons. CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves has previously […]
US broadcaster CBS will end rating smash Under the Dome at the end of its current third season. The show is notable for creating a new summertime window for original American dramas when launched in 2013, which CBS has since subbed ‘summer event’ programming. “Two years ago, Under the Dome broke new ground in the […]
CBS has ordered BrainDead, a new comic thriller from the creators of The Good Wife that will be the US network’s latest summer event series. CBS has given the show a straight-to-tseries order and it will play in the net’s summer 2016 schedule. The broadcaster started ordering high-end dramas for its summer grid in 2013 […]
New Middle East and North African on-demand service Starz Play has acquired programmes such as CBS summer event series Zoo and Under the Dome and Showtime Emmy-winner The Affair. James Patterson-penned Zoo (pictured) recently debuted as the US’s most-watched summer season show, and last week held around 94% of its debut audience during episode two. […]
Armando Nuñez, president and CEO, CBS Global Distribution Group Studio chief Armando Nuñez tells TBI what buyers can expect from this year’s crop of new dramas and comedies. TBI: How important is the LA Screenings compared with the various other international markets? AN: It has become the most important event of the year and the actual […]
The new subscription on-demand service of Spanish telco Telefonica has close a multi-year rights agreement for dramas from CBS and Showtime. The exclusive deal with CBS Studios International hands Telefonica Spain-owned Movistar Series Under the Dome, The Good Wife and new season hit Madam Secretary (pictured) from CBS and Penny Dreadful, Ray Donovan and Golden […]
