As previously expected, Sky have announced a deal with ESPN to serve as an additional broadcaster of this season’s The FA Cup Final, with the hotly anticipated annual event in football in England (which this season (2011-12) will be contested by Chelsea and Liverpool) to be shown live on the Sky 3D channel on 5 May, along [...]
Popular ITV1 singing contest The X Factor have announced the introduction of a number of features taken from last year’s debut of the American version of the franchise on Fox, as they prepare rule changes and new ‘mobile auditions’ for the ninth series in 2012. The implementation of the extra auditions will be seen as a much more [...]
Apple are set to give their newest planned product (a connected TV product with links to the company’s other devices) a new name in order to avoid a legal dispute with English TV network ITV, with independant anaylyst Peter Misek giving off strong rumours that it will now be known as ‘iPanel’. The product, which has been [...]
The battle between The Voice UK and Britain’s Got Talent in the Saturday night ratings continued in week 3 of each show’s run, with the tables surprisingly turning in favour of the new BBC1 series after two weeks in second place. The current ‘overnight data’ claims that as has happened in the previous fortnight, The [...]
While BBC1′s The Voice UK and ITV1′s Britain’s Got Talent continue to battle for ratings on Saturday evenings, the talent contests seem to have had an influence on the products being brought in stores, as regional electronics retailers Currys and PC World (who recently partnered on a movie streaming service) claim that there has been an unprecedented rise in [...]
Former Big Brother winner Brian Belo is said to be suing the producers of ITV2 ‘reality’ TV show The Only Way is Essex, claiming that the concept was originally his idea. He has made the legal challenge towards broadcaster ITV and production company Lime Pictures, on the basis that they have breached a copyright formed by a format he created alongside Sassy [...]
