Commercial German TV broadcaster, RTL Deutschland have signed a deal with Disney that gives the company the German TV premieres for movies from Disney/Pixar, DreamWorks and ABC TV shows. The multi-year and exclusive deal comes as rival German network, ProSiebenSat.1 loses the Disney content as it’s deal ends. Content that will come to RTL includes  [...]

It seems as though TV executives at ABC could be running out of ideas at the moment, as they look across the Atlantic for the inspiration behind their latest planned sitcom, a proposal to re-make of UK classic comedy, Only Fools and Horses. It is thought that the network have commissioned Brian Bradley and Steven Cragg (writers of Scrubs) [...]

Users of online TV in Australia have doubled in the past year according to the country’s official media body ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority), with online streaming of TV-based content being used at its highest-ever rates. The ACMA report, entitled ‘ACMA Communications Report 2010-11‘, claims that for June 2011, around 1.1 million unique users viewed TV content [...]

ABC have made a decision to centre their Thanksgiving line-up around one person, with a 90-minute-long show dedicated to popstar Lady Gaga celebrating the holiday with her friends and family. The made-for-TV special, entitled A Very GaGa Thanksgiving, will see the singer featured in interviews with journalist Katie Couric, with the network promising ‘an intimate [...]

Disney-ABC have confirmed further licensing agreements with online Streaming services Netflix and Amazon. The deal with Netflix is an extension of an existing contract that lets Netflix stream content from ABC Studios, Disney Channel and ABC Family. For Amazon, the deal will see them streaming content from ABC Family, ABC Studios, Marvel and Disney Channel [...]

Though not quite as high-profile as the UK or USA, Australia still provides a key role in the English-speaking TV world, with a range of content through a number of Australian TV Networks services that are available to its population of over 22 million. The terrestrial channel market is led by commercial network Seven Network, [...]