10 Global TV Stories You Should Know: 03/25/2024

Here are the stories that should be on your radar

Here are the global TV and streaming TV stories that should be on your radar for Monday, March 25th, 2024:

Netflix Unveils ‘Ultraman’ Film & ‘Gundam’ Series In Japanese Anime Slate Reveal (Deadline)
Netflix unveiled its anime line-up for the year at the AnimeJapan event in Tokyo, including feature film Ultraman: Rising and TV series Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance and Rising Impact. The streamer’s anime slate launch comes just a few days after announcing that it will release Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning film The Boy and the Heron on its platform globally.

Analysis: BBC Defies UK Commissioning Downturn (Advanced-Television)
A report from Ampere Analysis reveals an 18 per cent decline in 2023 in the UK’s market for scripted TV commissions (Drama, Sci-Fi, Crime & Thriller, etc.) as major UK broadcasters cut spend and most global SVoDs trimmed investment in international content.

Sky To Launch Sky Stream In Germany (Broadband TV News)
Sky plans to launch Sky Stream as a new, central streaming platform in Germany in late summer 2024. The offering will combine Sky channels, free-TV channels, apps and third-party streaming services on a single user interface. Access will be through a streaming box connected to the TV set via Wi-Fi.

Forecast: E Europe OTT Revenues To Soar (Advanced-Television)
OTT TV episode and movie revenues for 22 Eastern European countries will reach $6.96 billion (€6.43bn) in 2029, up from $3.82 billion in 2023, according to the Eastern Europe OTT TV & Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research.

ATP & WTA Tours Coverage Returns In China Via Streamer Youku (Digital TV Europe)
In a new deal, coverage of tennis tournaments from the WTA and ATP Tours will be shown in China for the first time since 2022 on streaming platform Youko. The three-year agreements with both WTA Ventures, the commercial arm of the WTA, and ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the ATP Tour, includes over 80 tournaments per year available to watch on Youku between 2024 and 2026.

Disney And Telekom Srbija Continue Strategic Partnership (Broadband TV News)
Entertainment, factual and kids TV channels and on demand from Star and Nat Geo will continue following a renewal of the strategic partnership between Disney and Telekom Srbija.

BBC Boss Tim Davie To Warn Of Threat To British Storytelling From “US & Chinese Algorithms” (TBI Vision)
BBC director-general Tim Davie is to warn that British storytelling is at “growing risk of being squeezed out in an extraordinarily competitive global media landscape” in a speech tomorrow. The chief of the UK public broadcaster will warn of the threat that global streaming services and social media giants, such as TikTok and Facebook, pose to the future of the BBC.

World’s First ‘Dragon Ball’ Theme Park Will Be Built In Saudi Arabia (Deadline)
The world’s first Dragon Ball theme park will be built in Saudi Arabia, in Qiddiya, an entertainment and tourism project outside the capital of Riyadh. Pitched as an adventure with main character Son Goku and his friends, the Dragon Ball theme park will have more than 30 attractions and cover over 500,000 square meters (5.4 million square feet).

Finland To Switch Off SD Broadcasts Next Spring (Broadband TV News)
Finland’s communications regulator has announced plans to switch off the country’s standard definition transmissions. Traficom says the rules will apply to both terrestrial and cable TV broadcasts.

Now TV Retains Exclusive Euros Rights In Hong Kong (Sportcal)
The 2024 edition of the UEFA Europan Championships soccer tournament will take place across Germany in June and July.