Advanced Television

women

beIN Sports offers free Women’s Champions League

beIN Media Group has announced that the remainder of the UEFA Women’s Champion’s League (UWCL) will be available as a free-to-air broadcast across all of beIN’s 24 markets in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), both on linear and via streaming. beIN’s announcement, on International Women’s Day, is the latest in a number of […]

March 8, 2022

No Woman No Try on Prime Video

No Woman No Try, a confronting documentary about the current status of gender, ethnicity and sexual equality within women’s rugby, will premiere exclusively on Prime Video worldwide, on March 25th. No Woman No Try explores gender inequality through the lens of rugby and the women and men championing change across the sporting community. Professional rugby […]

March 4, 2022

Sky Sports, Women’s Sport Collective extend partnership

Sky Sports is extending its partnership with the Women’s Sport Collective, the networking group driving positive change for women in sport. The initial collaboration in 2021 was born from a shared desire to help shape the industry to become a more accepting and inclusive environment for women. This continued partnership and investment from Sky Sports […]

February 3, 2022

Mosaku, Dooley, Maitlis, Coel, Moore amongst winners at The 30th Women in Film and TV Awards

The 30th Women in Film and TV (UK) Awards have taken place at the Park Lane Hilton celebrating 2021’s inspiring women from the film and TV industry, with fourteen awards categories covering all aspects of the industry including directing, performance, producing, business and project management. Hosted for the first time by Mel Giedroyc, a previous […]

December 3, 2021

Call It! app combats bullying in TV & film industry

New app Call It! aims to help the TV & film industry stamp out bullying, harassment, and all forms of discrimination in the workplace. Designed to engender collective and individual accountability, Call It! seeks to empower everyone working in the film and TV industry to record incidents quickly and anonymously, providing easy access to companies […]

October 1, 2021

Report: Women still under-represented in TV industry

A report from the European Audiovisual Observatory reveals that women are still under-represented in the TV fiction industry in Europe. This report provides an assessment of the gender imbalance within six audiovisual professional categories in European TV fiction. Key highlights include: Women directors collaborated with other directors more often than their male counterparts, and quite […]

September 1, 2021

Survey: Accessibility could boost women’s football viewing

A survey of more than 5,000 football fans, to understand their viewing habits and interest levels when it comes to women’s professional league football, carried out by sports footwear specialist RunRepeat, suggests that if it is easily accessible on TV, the viewership could increase by 300 per cent-350 per cent. Interestingly, male football fans are […]

April 22, 2021