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The BBC has acquired the UK rights to over 1,000 episodes of the English dubbed versions of the celebrated anime series One Piece.
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Story from Advanced Television:
The BBC has acquired the UK rights to over 1,000 episodes of the English dubbed versions of the celebrated anime series One Piece.
STV Group plc today announces that Rufus Radcliffe will join the Board as Chief Executive Officer on Friday 1 November 2024.
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The BBC faces significant financial challenges with declining TV licence revenue, prompting considerations of radical changes, including a merger with Channel 4.
Gary Lineker has indicated he is willing to stay on as host of Match of the Day after his 'natural successor' Jermaine Jenas was sacked by the BBC last week.
OneFootball and Lega Serie A have announced a partnership to deliver coverage of Italy’s top flight football league to fans in the UK and Ireland for the 2024/2025 season.
ITV’s Chief Viewer Officer Jane Stiller has announced the appointment of Akhila Khanna to head up the Media and Entertainment division’s UK distribution strategy, in the role of Director of Distribution, starting in October.
Former Sky commentator Bryn Law has criticised Sky Sports' coverage of Liverpool's victory against Brentford on Sunday.
''The Traitors” U.K. fans are in for a treat as the BBC today confirmed a fourth season of the hit show as well as a celebrity edition.
“Hindsight is a wonderful thing,” Charlotte Moore said at Edinburgh this afternoon when addressing the Huw Edwards scandal and whether the BBC could have done more.
With a year to go until England kick off the opening match in the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, BBC Sport has announced an exclusive UK rights deal with World Rugby for live coverage in England.
ITV is yet to find itself in a position where it is “turning stuff down because we can’t afford it,” according to programs boss Kevin Lygo, who nonetheless acknowledged “the middle ground has gone” from the the market due to massive hits like Netflix’s The Gentlemen.
Channel 4 wants the UK television industry to know: the dark days are over.
Sky has restructured its content team in the UK following the exit of Zai Bennett.
Anne Mensah, Netflix’s U.K. VP of content, is one of the streamer’s most senior U.K. executives, overseeing scripted, unscripted, film and acquisitions.
UK commercial PSB Channel 5 and its free streaming service, My5, will relaunch in 2025 under a unified parent brand of 5 across linear, streaming and digital platforms – giving its audience access to its range of programming and content, wherever and whenever they want it.
DAZN will stream Chelsea Women’s friendly match with Gotham FC.
Former BBC Studios drama boss Priscilla Parish has headed in the opposite direction to Zai Bennett.
The government has been urged to make this season the last that Premier League games are locked behind a paywall.
DLT Entertainment, the independent television production and distribution company, has announced the acquisition of Juniper Productions, expanding its portfolio in the factual programming space.
S4C will broadcast live coverage of this year’s FIM Speedway GP of Great Britain tking place in Cardiff on August 17th.
Streaming services and cinema are set to play pivotal roles in the U.K.‘s entertainment and media (E&M) market, which is on track to become Europe’s largest by 2025, overtaking Germany, according to PwC‘s latest Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2024-2028.
BBC Sport and ITV have agreed a deal for live coverage of the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025, which takes place in Switzerland.
A crackdown by Netflix on password-sharing is a major contributor in the growing value of the British entertainment market, which is forecast to reach 100 billion for the first time this year.
Ligue 1 has lost its UK broadcaster TNT Sports, who has decided not to renew the French league rights for the season that begins Friday.
Premier Sports is set to launch a 24/7 rugby-specific channel, after acquiring the rights to the EPCR’s competitions, the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup.
The BBC will show highlights of the Champions League this season - with a special highlights show after this Wednesday's Uefa Super Cup.
DS Forum 'Martin1' has posted - Isn't clear when (Eurosport UK 1 & Eurosport UK 2) will rebranded 'before the Winter Olympics in 2026'.
TNT Sports will air the MAX60 Caribbean cricket competition in the UK.
S4C will broadcast Super Rygbi Cymru, the new top tier of Welsh rugby union.
Disney is set to invest at least $5 billion in production across the U.K. over the next five years, according to Jan Koeppen, the company’s European chief.
As the BBC’s highest-paid news presenter, Huw Edwards was on a salary of almost half a million pounds.
Huw Edwards has been asked by the BBC to hand back more than £200,000 salary he earned after being arrested in November on child abuse image charges.
Media regulator Ofcom has received more than 8,000 complaints after Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was interviewed by her husband Ed Balls live on TV.
Virgin Media customers will lose eight sports channels at the end of the week in the latest changes to the service.
The media regulator Ofcom has received more than 8,000 complaints after an episode of Good Morning Britain in which the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, was interviewed by her husband, Ed Balls.
BBC Scotland is preparing to axe a raft of programmes amid woeful viewing figures.
While the men’s 2024 Euro final reached record levels of viewership in England this year, over in the women’s game, the confusion surrounding the scheduling of matches continues to be one of the factors limiting its growth.
Warner Bros Discovery’s senior management is looking to avoid a break-up of the company as executives race to reverse the Hollywood group’s plunging share price, according to people familiar with the matter.
ITV has defended allowing the home secretary to be interviewed by her husband on Good Morning Britain, arguing the exchange was “balanced, fair and duly impartial”.
From August 8th, Sky Sports subscribers can watch the new Sky Sports+ dedicated channel and numerous live streams at no extra cost.
Throughout August, Virgin Media is offering its TV customers who don’t currently subscribe to Premier Sports access to the channels at no extra cost.
The BBC has removed a “Doctor Who” episode featuring former newsreader Huw Edwards from its iPlayer service, while a mural of him has been painted over in his home village, BBC News reports.
The former chairwoman of the BBC thanked disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards for his "huge contribution" despite knowing he had been arrested in November 2023.
Huw Edwards should return the salary he was paid by the BBC after being arrested, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said.
The BBC’s Chief Technology Officer has given details of changes to BBC Research and Development after the BBC announced plans to reduce staffing levels by a further 500.
The BBC is not hiding evidence about the conduct of disgraced presenter Huw Edwards, according to director general Tim Davie.
Premier Sports is the home of superb live football, from the top Spanish teams in LALIGA to all the top competitions in Scotland, plus top English teams in action ahead of the start of the season.
BBC Studios have formed a new division for U.K. entertainment to be headed by Suzy Lamb, Variety has learned.
The UK’s new Culture Secretary will meet BBC Director General Tim Davie as early as today to discuss the fallout of the Huw Edwards scandal.