10 Global TV Stories You Should Know: 07/30/2024

Here are the stories that should be on your radar

Here are the global TV and streaming television stories that should be on your radar for Tuesday, July 30th, 2024:

WBD Shops Max To UK Platforms (Advanced-Television)
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is reportedly in talks with rival UK streaming platforms and TV services to carry its HBO content via the Max streaming brand –  casting doubts over its existing exclusive deal with Sky.

Freedom Scripted’s Mike Ellen On Opportunities In The Drama Market (World Screen)
There [are] a lot of different types of opportunity, depending on where you are and who you are. For a company like us, the opportunities are in making high-quality premium drama for more modest budgets—from about €1 million to €3 million per hour, which, for some broadcasters and some streamers, that’s actually quite cheap. A lot of European program-makers are used to making programs for under €2 million and doing it in co-pro. So, I think there’s definitely opportunity for us in that space, and then some of those shows can help us grow to punch through to other price levels.

Arrest Warrant Issued For Reality TV Star Katie Price Over Missed Court Appearance (Deadline)
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of British reality TV icon Katie Price. The influencer and former glamor model failed to attend a bankruptcy court hearing on Tuesday, despite receiving “very clear warnings” she should appear. Price is known for reality shows such as Katie & Peter and Katie Price: My Crazy Life, for appearing on the fifteenth season of Big Brother UK and as a regular panellist on ITV daytime show Loose Women.

MultiChoice Nigeria Gets Go Ahead For Price Increases (Broadband TV News)
MultiChoice Nigeria is free to introduce price increases after a lawyer was forced to withdraw the case he had brought against the pay-TV platform. In May consumer rights lawyer Festus Onifade brought the case against MultiChoice after planned increases to its DStv and GOtv subscriptions. Onifade argued that MultiChoice had failed to give the enquired one-months’ notice of the changes.

Saran Extends EPL Tie-Up, Secures FA Cup Through 2027-28 (Sportcal)
Saran Media has today unveiled two exclusive multi-year media rights deals covering English soccer’s Premier League (EPL) and knockout FA Cup competition, across a range of Eastern European and Central Asian territories. The EPL tie-up, covering the countries of Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, is an extension and runs from 2025-26 through 2027-28.

Qatar’s BeIN & Front Row Renew Pay One Accord In Deal For Up To 300 Movies (Deadline)
Qatari beIN media group and Dubai-based film distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment have renewed an ongoing first run deal for another three years until 2027. Under the accord, beIN has secured exclusive pay one window rights to up to 300 movie titles for its linear and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services across the Middle East and North African region.

Viacom18 Takes DesiPlayTV To Europe And The UK (Indian Television)
Mumbai: IndiaCast Media – part of the Viacom18 group - is playing a big hand in Europe. The syndication and distribution firm has announced the launch of Viacom18’s leading Hindi FAST channel, DesiPlay TV, on Pluto TV in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland and Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The channel is being made available in Hindi with English subtitles to enable audiences to enjoy the content.

Warner Bros. Discovery's Chris Brown On Lending Help, Gear To The Studio Presence Of Eurosport (Sports Video)
It’s not often that a U.S-based broadcaster gets to collaborate with another broadcast entity under the same corporate umbrella, but, for a massive global event like the 2024 Summer Olympics, there’s no better time for Warner Bros. Discovery to put its transatlantic partnership to use. The perfect microcosm of this is the work being by Warner Bros. Discovery VP, Tech Operations, Chris Brown. Normally a major player for WBD’s domestic efforts on properties like the NBA on TNT, NHL on TNT, MLB on TBS, and NCAA Men’s Final Four and March Madness, the industry veteran is assisting in Eurosport’s extensive studio programming from a rooftop location in Paris.

Netflix Commissions Spanish Series Salvador (World Screen)
Netflix has ordered the new drama series Salvador, created by Aitor Gabilondo (El silencio, Entrevías, Patria), from Alea Media. Starring Luis Tosar (Celda 211, Los favoritos de Midas) and Claudia Salas (Élite, Cerdita), it centers on a father who discovers that his daughter belongs to a neo-Nazi group, which he must approach in order to try to rescue her and understand what led her to a group that defends racist, violent and homophobic values, completely opposed to how he raised her.