India-based Zee5 Global is to start aggregating other South Asian streamers within its platform. Zee5 Global Add-ons will offer subscribers in the US a single-window to access South Asian entertainment streamers via its service, with platforms priced from $1.49. It will allow customers to watch content across languages from streaming platforms including Simply South (all […]
The “broken” streaming model is leading to a “huge devaluing of content”, execs argued at the second annual Media & Entertainment Leaders Summit in London today. With global streamers increasingly cutting back on their content spend and moving away from the D2C model with a return to third-party sales, a panel of execs from Liberty […]
Mumbai-based SVOD service ZEE5 has partnered with producer and distributor BBC Studios India to build a slate of Hindi-language originals for the platform based on British formats. The first project to result from the collaboration will be an original drama series titled The Broken News, based on the UK series Press, which was created by […]
Squid Game creator preps S2 Squid Game director and writer Hwang Dong-hyuk has said a second season of the show is in the works. The South Korean series, about a dystopian world in which contestants play childhood games to the death, has become a smash hit for Netflix. The streamer said more than 140 million […]
AMC+ gives US debut to ‘Anne Boleyn’ US-based AMC+ has acquired three-part psychological thriller Anne Boleyn as an original series for its US debut on 9 December. Starring Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) in the titular role, the drama explores the final months of Anne Boleyn’s life, as she struggles to secure a future for her daughter and to […]
