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The e-auction's over, and as became clear yesterday, Viacom18 is the big winner of Indian Premier League cricket rights. The company bagged digital rights in India for 410 games over the next five years for $2.6B and today followed up with the international rights for three of the other big cricketing nations…

Viacom18 has bowled out the opposition and caught the sought-after streaming rights to the Indian Premier League cricket tournament. The company paid a cool 205B rupees ($2.6B) for the digital rights, which cover the next five years, according to The Times of India. In a streaming market as competitive as India's, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first trailer for Disney+ Hotstar’s Masoom, the Indian remake of Irish drama series Blood. The six-part psychological thriller series, set in Falauli, Punjab, follows a daughter's quest to unearth the truth about her mother’s death, though her family wishes to hide the truth under the garb of…

Sky Recommissions ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ On Four-Strong Entertainment Slate Sky has commissioned a second season of its Never Mind the Buzzcocks reboot on a four-strong entertainment slate that includes a football quiz exec produced by Jack Whitehall. The recommission comes alongside a second series of Matt…

Disney and the WWE have reached a deal for the WWE Network to stream exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia, a potential prelude to other global pacts. The move follows that of the WWE Network, a pioneering direct-to-consumer service, to NBCUniversal’s Peacock in the U.S. last spring. That $1 billion agreement…

EXCLUSIVE: Season two of mythological fantasy animated series The Legend Of Hanuman is making waves in the competitive Indian streaming market, having topped all other shows and movies on paid VOD services over the last week, according to Mumbai-based consultancy Ormax Media. Ormax's figures estimate that the show has…

Disney Plus has made good on its plans to offer general entertainment service Star in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, giving the company a new streaming outlet for more grown-up programming. Also today, Disney+ with Star launched in Singapore, the first market where Disney+ has launched with the new Star…

Varun Narang, former chief product officer at India-based streaming service Disney+Hotstar, has been appointed to the same role at Fox Corp. Reporting to Chief Technology Officer and President of Digital Paul Cheesbrough, Narang will oversee all Fox-branded streaming products, platforms and engineering talent. Fox…

Indian streaming major Disney+ Hotstar has put the wheels in motion on major new project Special Ops Universe, a multi-series spin-off format of its recent espionage thriller Special Ops. Created by Neeraj Pandey, the project will span numerous incarnations, including Special Ops season 1.5: The Himmat Story, which…

Disney+ continued its global expansion, adding Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Belgium and Luxembourg to its roster of countries. Pricing ranges from $7.63 a month in Norway to $9.42 in Denmark. Portugal, Belgium, Finland, Iceland and Luxembourg are all at €6.99, or $8.30. “As a major force in the…

Disney+ Hostar is making a serious commitment to Cosmos-Maya's hit Hindi animated series Selfie With Bajrangi, upping its commission to a 234 episode run across three seasons. The VOD service formed this month when Disney+ entered the Indian market and merged with the Disney-owned Hotstar (previously of Fox), which is…