10 Global TV Stories You Should Know: 05/19/2025

Here are the stories that should be on your radar

Here are the global TV and streaming television stories which should be on your radar for Monday, May 19th, 2025:

BBC Antiques Road Trip Experts In Heated Clash As 'Fix' Row Erupts At Auction (Daily Mirror)
The stakes were high on Antiques Road Trip as Catherine Southon went head-to-head with Charles Hanson at a tense auction in Paddock Wood, Kent. A previous episode of the BBC programme saw the duo head on a treasure hunt across Sussex, taking them from Storrington to Peacehaven. But it was Charles, 46, who managed to stir quite the controversy after Catherine insinuated he'd rigged the auction by enlisting people to bid on his antiques.

BeIN Extends FA Cup Coverage In France, Renews Malaysia Tie-Up With Astro (Sportcal)
International sports broadcaster BeIN has extended its rights deal covering English soccer's knockout FA Cup competition through the 2025-26 campaign. The extension was unveiled in advance of the 2024-25 FA Cup final on Saturday (May 17), in which Crystal Palace beat Manchester City 1-0. BeIN has covered the FA Cup live for French audiences since 2012, and will show next year's competition exclusively in the territory.

Netflix And Jeju Go From Tangerines To Teamwork With Deal To Grow Content Industry (Korea JoongAng Daily)
"When Life Gives You Tangerines," sign a content deal. That's just what Netflix and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province did on Friday, inking a business agreement on domestic content production and revitalizing Jeju culture and tourism. The agreement aims to evolve the K-content ecosystem, creating a production environment unique to Jeju Island that provides real benefits to domestic creators and production companies.

BT Close To Selling TNT Sports Stake To WBD (Advanced-Television)
BT is reportedly in advanced talks to sell its 50 per cent stake in TNT Sports to US joint venture partner Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). A deal could be confirmed in the coming days, according to FT. WBD has an option to buy out BT’s stake before the end of 2026, the FT report added.

Gary Lineker To Leave BBC After Sharing Video Featuring Antisemitic Trope (Deadline)
They think it’s all over — it is now. Gary Lineker will leave the BBC this weekend. The BBC’s highest-paid presenter, earning £1.35M ($1.8M), will exit after he presents his final Match of the Day highlights show on Sunday — a year earlier than planned.

Sky Deutschland Secures NHL Rights (Broadband TV News)
As in previous years, Sky Sport will continue to broadcast at least one live game per day during the NHL season. Highlights will include marquee events such as the NHL Winter Classic, the NHL Global Series, and the primetime “NHL Saturday” and “NHL Sunday” games tailored for European audiences. Selected matches will feature German-language commentary, while all games will be available with the original English-language broadcast.

Delhi High Court Orders OTTs, Producers To Include Accessibility Features In Movies (Bar & Bench)
The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered over-the-top (OTT) platforms and film producers to ensure accessibility features like audio description, same-language captioning are incorporated in a bunch of movies released on the platform. Justice Sachin Datta's order would apply to movies like the Buckingham murderers, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, Shaitan, Article 370 and Kaluva. The Court directed that the movie producers are required to ensure that accessibility features are incorporated in all future releases at the time of release on OTT platforms.

Research: Over 23m SVoD Subs In Nordics (Advanced-Television)
The Nordic countries added approximately 3.7 million paid subscriptions during the last 12 months, reaching a total of over 23 million, according to data from Mediavision. Sweden leads the Nordic market, both in size and growth. Over the past year alone, more than 2 million new paid subscriptions have been added in Sweden.

Channel 4 And TNT Sports Snap Up Women’s FA Cup Through 2027-28 (Sportcal)
From the start of the 2025-26 season, English soccer's Women's FA Cup knockout tournament will be covered live domestically (and in Ireland) by a combination of TNT Sports and Channel 4 through the end of 2027-28. For the next three seasons, pay-TV broadcaster TNT Sports will cover 19 matches annually from the cup competition, starting with one in the first round and one in the second, while free-to-air commercial network Channel 4 will cover six games per campaign (one game per round).

South Africa’s Top Streaming Sites, With One Surprising Winner (Hypertext)
Now, the website shows that Netflix continues to be the largest streaming platform for the South African mind, followed closely by Amazon Prime Video at 28 percent and 25 percent of the market share, respectively. Local upstart from MultiChoice, Showmax has cornered a nice little 23 percent of the share, showing that it is battling with international powerhouses. In fourth place is a bit of surprise, as Mubi has managed to corner 13 percent of the South African on-demand market share, followed by Apple TV+ and Curiosity Stream.