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SkyShowtime CEO Monty Sarhan talked about bringing Yellowstone to its European subscribers and plans to bolster the streaming service’s U.S. franchises with up to ten local originals in 2024, in a keynote at NEM Duvbrovnik. A joint-venture between Paramount and Comcast, SkyShowtime is in over 20…

BAFTA Unveils Special Award Winner & Host For 2024 Craft Gongs UK mentoring organization MAMA Youth Project is to win this year's Special Award at the BAFTA Television Crafts, which has revealed Stacey Dooley as host. Founded by TV editing vet Bob Clarke in 2005 to make a career in TV and film more…

EXCLUSIVE: SkyShowtime’s drama original Codename: Annika is taking its art crime sensibilities around the world. In one of the few international distribution stories you’ll read this week not directly related to the London TV Screenings, Mediawan Rights has snapped up sales rights to the…

Movistar Plus+ has struck deals for the Max and SkyShowtime streamers in Spain. On the former, Movistar and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) have extended their partnership to bring content from WBD's portfolio of entertainment, sports, films and news to Movistar Plus+ customers, which includes combined…

‘Bardot’ Series Sells After Netflix Launch Bardot, the French series about the younger years of film star Brigitte Bardot, has sold into a raft of international territories soon after its recent launch on Netflix. The Danièle Thompson and Christopher Thompson series debuted on Netflix in several…

‘Codename: Annika’: SkyShowtime Unveils Cast & Trailer SkyShowtime has unveiled cast and trailer for Codename: Annika, one of the fledgling Paramount/Comcast JV’s biggest originals to date. The series follows a Finnish detective, Emma Haka, played by Sannah Nedergård (Yellow Sulphur Sky), who is…

Idris Elba, Olivia Colman, Woody Harrelson Lead King Charles III Environmental Short Idris Elba, Olivia Colman, Woody Harrelson and Glenn Close have featured in a short film launching King Charles III’s RE:TV YouTube channel. The stars make up four of 19 actors and environnentalists who revisit lines…

“We are sending a message that our content doesn’t have to cost a fortune to watch,” said the CEO of fledgling streamer SkyShowtime, who said there could be more bundling in the future. Monty Sarhan took the reins of the Comcast/Paramount Global JV last year and has since overseen the hiring of 180…

SkyShowtime CEO Monty Sarhan led a market keynote at Cannes this afternoon, during which he shared the streamer's forthcoming slate, including a series of original European-produced shows set to hit the streamer this year and into 2024. The announced productions span Europe. In the Nordics, the…

SkyShowtime has set its first Polish original, a fictional drama series that follows the tragicomic adventures of a 40-year old playboy. In Warszawianka, Franek Czułkowski aka Czuly, played by Borys Szyc, is a talented writer who has experienced success and failure and now finds himself trapped…

New Duke Of Edinburgh Opens Sky Studios Sound Stage Prince Edward, the new Duke of Edinburgh, has opened a sound stage at Sky Studios Elstree. The former Earl of Wessex, who is a Patron of the Production Guild of Great Britain, headed to the Hertfordshire film and TV studio the day before he took on…

BBC Greenlights ‘The Gold: The Inside Story’ Companion Doc The BBC has greenlit a documentary telling the real story of the £26M ($31.2M) Brink’s-Mat robbery spotlighted in Neil Forsyth drama The Gold. The Gold: The Inside Story will hear from the detectives who investigated Britain's biggest bullion…