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First Teaser For UAE-Shot Pierre Morel Action Pic AGC International and Image Nation Abu Dhabi have unveiled a slick first teaser trailer for Al Kameen (The Ambush), about the rescue mission of a small group of Emirati soldiers trapped by rebel fighters in a mountainous valley. According to producers, the film is the…

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has invested in ITV2’s Stand Up Sketch Show and BBC3’s Bamous producer Spirit Studios. Spirit Studios, which was founded as Spirit Media by former Endemol digital boss Peter Cowley (pictured) and Matt Campion, becomes the latest producer to join C4’s Indie Growth Fund, which sees the…

Succession writer Lucy Prebble and His Dark Materials’ Jack Thorne have slammed the UK government’s plan to force Public Service Broadcasters to produce ‘distinctive British content’, with Prebble calling it “an empty gesture to a fictional audience”. Speaking alongside Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight at today’s…

UK audiences are to be taken Inside Beverly Hills: The Land Of The Rich And Famous as broadcaster Channel 4 acquires Operation Royal Wedding producer Spun Gold TV’s three-parter. The show, which was part-funded by distributor All3Media International, reveals a whole new side to the world famous home and playground of…

Walter Presents, a foreign-language drama streamer, launched in the UK in 2016 as a joint venture with Channel 4. It came out of the gates with spy series Deutschland '83, which subsequently became the first German-language scripted series to launch on a U.S. network when it debuted on SundanceTV. In 2018, the service…

WarnerMedia’s New Singapore Base WarnerMedia has unveiled its new regional hub for Asia (excluding China and Japan). Officially opened today (September 24, 2021) by Singapore's Minister for Communications and Information, the office signals the full integration of WarnerMedia's business in the region that includes…

Channel 4’s comedy Derry Girls, which counts Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan among its stars and streams on Netflix globally, is coming to an end. Creator Lisa McGee announced Thursday in a statement on Twitter that the upcoming third season of the British series will be its last. “It was always the plan to say goodbye…

Alex Mahon, the chief executive of British broadcaster Channel 4, says there's "no evidence" that privatization of the of the public broadcaster would benefit the channel and that, rather, it would mean a lot of the PSB's current programming would become commercially unsustainable, impacting its ability to break new…

In his speech to the Royal Television Society Convention on Wednesday, UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden will spell out the Conservative Government’s reasoning for wanting to privatize broadcaster Channel 4. Dowden will argue that new private investment would allow the channel to better keep up with the SVODs such as…

UK tennis fans will be able to watch live coverage of tonight's US Open tennis final on Channel 4 after the broadcaster secured a last-minute deal to share the broadcast with Amazon Prime Video. Brit viewers will be able to cheer on 18-year-old sensation Emma Raducanu as she makes her first Grand Slam final appearance…

The UK Government's Minister for Media and Data, John Whittingdale, waged battle with UK TV professionals over the future of Channel 4 at this year's Closing Debate at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Reiterating his previous explanations for wanting the channel to be sold, Whittingdale referred to the changing TV market…

Channel 4's Chief Content Officer Ian Katz has used his spotlight session at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival to warn that privatization would “destroy” the channel. Katz made no bones about the potential changes to Channel 4 both on and off air: "It would be a very different beast to the Channel 4 we know now. Much…