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Record month for ITVX

ITV’s Euro 2024 coverage, along with a new season of Love Island and a selection of new dramas drove record streaming numbers in June for ITVX, with 375.8 million streams across the month, making it ITVX’s best ever month in streaming, up 54 per cent year on year. June 30th also saw ITV’s biggest ever […]

July 4, 2024

Snapchat, WBD expand sports partnership

Snapchat and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) have announced the launch of an extended, multi-region partnership to transform the fans consume and celebrate sporting content ahead of this year’s summer of sport. The two-year partnership aims to entertain and inspire millions of Snapchat users across the UK, France and the rest of Europe with exclusive content […]

July 4, 2024

DAZN acquires FFBB, NBL rights

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has secured the French and a selection of international rights to the Betclic Elite Championship after a successful negotiating process with the French Basketball Federation (FFBB) and the National Basketball League (LNB). The rights run over a five-year period from September 2024 to June 2029. In addition to the weekly […]

July 4, 2024

Willow by Cricbuzz offers free MLC matches

Willow by Cricbuzz, the cricket streaming service, has announced broadcasting plans for the 2024 Major League Cricket (MLC) season. Cricket fans across North America can look forward to live MLC matches on Willow by Cricbuzz and their regional sports network, in addition to special free-to-view broadcasts on Sunday nights. In addition to airing all MLC […]

July 4, 2024

U&Dave orders Silence is Golden; Gorman returns

Dermot O’Leary is set to host U&Dave’s Silence is Golden, a new entertainment show created by Richard Bacon, whose Yes Yes Media is set to produce the series for UKTV. At the start of each episode, the network gives £250,000 to the studio audience and all they need to do to keep it is remain […]

July 4, 2024By Nik Roseveare

The Tour of Qinghai Lake on TrillerTV+

TrillerTV and Icarus Sports have announced that the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) annual professional road bicycle racing stage race, The Tour of Qinghai Lake, will stream live worldwide from China on the subscription platform TrillerTV+. This top road race in China and major event of the UCI Asia Tour takes place at the country’s largest […]

July 4, 2024

BBC acquires Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime

The BBC has acquired Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime, a French crime thriller based on true events, for BBC iPlayer and TV channels, from Federation Studios. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind docuseries The Staircase and the drama Laetitia, recounts the extraordinary legal case of a serial rapist who attacked women across three […]

July 4, 2024

ITVX launching Hayu Select

ITV has announced a deal with Hayu – the all-reality streaming service – to bolster ITVX Premium, the streaming platform’s subscription tier. The deal will see over 750 hours of content added to ITVX Premium in a branded area of ITVX called Hayu Select – which is scheduled to launch later this summer. Many of […]

July 3, 2024

All Bridgerton seasons on Netflix’s Most Popular TV List

Shortly after making its debut, Season 3 of Shonda Rhimes’ Bridgerton has entered into Netflix’s Most Popular TV List (English) at #10, notching 91.9 million views to date. Bridgerton now has three spots on the list, with Seasons 1 and 2 in the #4 and #9 spots respectively. The latest installment of the cultural phenomenon […]

July 3, 2024

Premier Sports expands Premier Sports Cup coverage

Premier Sports has announced it will show an extra 25 group stage matches from the Premier Sports Cup from the start of the new season. The extra games will be streamed live on the Premier Sports streaming service, which costs £15.99 per month in the UK and forms part of a new three-year agreement between […]

July 3, 2024