Having come under scrutiny last year for their dominance of the movie broadcasting market in the UK, satellite broadcaster Sky have been cleared of needing to give up some of their rights by the Competition Commission, after the trade fairness regulators ruled that online services such as Netflix and LoveFilm served as viable additional options that help [...]
Satellite broadcaster Sky’s Sky Atlantic channel is set to gain three new original series, with all of them coming from the comedy mind of the same man. Comedian Steve Coogan, best known for his portrayal of fictional TV presenter Alan Partridge (mainly during the 1990′s), is due to revive the character in June on all three new [...]
Sky 3D have announced yet another sporting broadcast right that will be bandwagoned onto their portfolio due to their 3D technology, after revealing that they will serve as an additional broadcaster to the French Open tennis tournament this year, teaming up with the event’s regular UK broadcaster Eurosport, who do not operate their developing European 3D coverage in [...]
Satellite broadcaster Sky have revealed their buyout of little-known connected TV ‘on-demand content provider’ Acetrax, as they attemt to tie the move in with the launch of their new ‘NOW TV’ service. Sky are claiming that the purchase of Acetrax (who were founded in 2006 in Zurich (Switzerland), and currently operate in various markets throughout Europe in [...]
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has been lined up for his first-ever headlining TV role, as he goes alongside Jon Hamm (Mad Men) for a new TV drama on Sky’s Sky Arts channel. In what will be the oddest kind of departure from the supernatural worlds of wizadry (Harry Potter) and haunted houses (The Woman in Black), Radcliffe is [...]
Sky1 have announced the confirmation that the long-rumoured spin-off special of hit travel show An Idiot Abroad will happen, with revised format The Short Way Round set to air for two special episodes near the end of this year. Officially titled An Idiot Abroad: The Short Way Round, the third ‘series’ will see reluctant traveler Karl Pilkington joined by [...]
