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Drama
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UKTV’s Drama and Really launch on Virgin Media Ireland
UKTV’s Drama and Really channels are due to launch on Virgin Media Ireland for the…
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RTL posts strong results as it focuses on VOD and drama
RTL announced strong Q2 and H1 results as it focuses on its two main growth…
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Amazon cancels comedies as it steps up drama focus
Amazon is continuing its purge of comedies, now ridding of One Mississippi, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson….
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Ampere: Netflix budget focused on drama and comedy
More than a third of Netflix’s original content spend to-date has been for drama titles,…
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Sky and HBO in US$250m high-end drama deal
Leading pay TV players Sky and HBO are joining forces to create a development slate…
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UKTV rolls out VOD update for YouView
UKTV has launched an updated version of its on-demand service, UKTV Play, on the YouView…
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Viceland announces first scripted series
Vice’s linear TV channel, Viceland, has ordered its first scripted series through the Canadian feed…
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Drama titles top March iPlayer stats
Drama series The Night Manager topped the list of programme requests for BBC iPlayer in…
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‘Netflix effect’ forces shorter windows for drama
Release windows for drama programming are shortening dramatically in key territories, with a ‘pronounced change’…
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UKTV: Dave and Drama now top non-PSB UK channels
Channel provider UKTV reported double-digit growth in 2015 and claimed that Dave and Drama are…
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UKTV adds Drama to catch-up service
UK thematic channel provider UKTV, jointly owned by BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks UK and…
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BitTorrent enters original drama series market
Peer-to-peer sharing company BitTorrent has taken the surprising step of launching an original online drama…
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SoftBank buys Korean drama VoD site DramaFever
Japanese telco SoftBank has agreed to buy US-based DramaFever, a streaming site that offers on-demand…
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ITV Encore goes live
ITV’s new drama channel ITV Encore goes live tonight in the UK on Sky Channel…
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ITV to launch pay drama channel on Sky
UK commercial broadcaster ITV is to launch a pay TV channel on the BSkyB platform…
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UKTV launches networks on Virgin TV Anywhere
UKTV has launched its full network of channels on Virgin Media’s TV anywhere service, marking…
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Tony Hall says BBC provides value for money, outlines drama commitments
BBC director general Tony Hall has argued that though the corporation has made mistakes in…
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BBC names first drama to debut on iPlayer
BBC daytime drama Moving On will be the corporation’s first drama series to premiere on…
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Virgin Media adds UKTV’s Drama network
UK cable operator Virgin Media has added UKTV’s Drama channel to its lineup. The network…
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UKTV to launch new Drama network
Multichannel broadcaster UKTV is set to launch a new British drama network on UK digital-terrestrial…