10 Stories You Should Know: 02/06/2023

Here are the stories that should be on your radar

Here are the global TV and streaming stories that should be on your radar for Monday, February 6th, 2023:

Netflix Cements Position In France With Cinémathèque Française Sponsorship Deal; Sets Agnès Varda Tie-In (Deadline)
Netflix's complex relationship with the French cinema world took another twist on Monday as the streamer said it was bolstering its support of the Cinemathèque Française to become a major sponsor of the institution over a three-year period.

Viaplay Vows To Maintain Production Output At 70 Originals In 2023 (C21 Media)
Scandinavian streamer Viaplay plans to launch about 70 original series and films in 2023, roughly matching its output for 2022. The content covers both Nordic productions and local stories for Viaplay’s international markets.

The company has a direct-to-consumer service in 11 markets, including the UK, and will soon launch in the US and Canada. Its Viaplay Select branded content is available through partners in 20 countries.

Sky Seeking Next ‘Happy Valley’ As Content Boss Zai Bennett Teases Less Is More Approach (Deadline)
Sky is seeking inspiration from Happy Valley for its next hit show as programs boss Zai Bennett says the pay-TV giant is taking a ‘less is more’ approach to original content.

Banijay Asia Targets Up To 35 Titles Annually In India (Mint)
Banijay Asia, the Indian arm of Paris-headquartered content company Banijay Group, is targeting between 30-35 Indian originals per year. The firm led by Deepak Dhar will release The Night Manager starring Anil Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur on Disney+ Hotstar later this month and is especially betting big on the non-fiction genre with adaptations of shows like Monk and Temptation Island lined up.

Europe’s Mediawan Enters Into $107M Series Co-Development Deal (Deadline)
France's Mediawan Group and private equity firm Entourage Ventures have struck a co-development agreement underpinned by a €100M ($107M) fund. The pair will work together over a four- to six-year period to finance series "with strong international potential."

Streaming Wars, Africa’s Toon Boom and Other Takeaways From Joburg’s JBX Content Market (Variety)
There’s no clear-cut portrait that can emerge from an industry gathering on a continent as rich and diverse as Africa, where film and TV production and consumer trends — as with everything else — vary widely from one country to the next. The major markets of South Africa and Nigeria still dominate the conversation at such events; global players like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video see those territories as key to their expansion plans on the continent and beyond.

European First For On Demand And Live TV Guide (Broadband TV News)
According to the metadata company MetaProfile.tv, it is no longer necessary to search through different apps for each of available streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and HBO Max.The app enables users to see what’s on TV amd on Streaming platforms combined, anytime and anywhere. Users can choose their favourite streaming services to see the available shows on each of them, and they will automatically be notified when a new season of their favourite show or any new content arrives to their preferred streaming service.

Paramount+ Strikes First Major Mobile Distribution Deal in U.K. With Three (The Hollywood Reporter)
Paramount+ is now available to new customers of Three who take out a qualifying monthly plan, making it the exclusive subscription video-on-demand partner for the mobile company. Three customers will get complementary access to the service for varying durations, depending on their tariff. At the end of their introductory offer, they can choose to use mobile billing to pay for the streamer at the then current price.

M6 Streamer 6Play Unveils FAST Alliance With Youth-Oriented Konbini (Digital TV Europe)
RTL’s French broadcasting division M6 Group has unveiled a partnership between its AVOD streaming platform 6play and digital-first media group Konbini. Under the terms of the deal, youth-oriented Konbini will launch a dedicated FAST channel on the platform based around some of its most popular online programming strands.

TVN To Launch Five New Shows In The Spring (Wirtualnemedia Poland)
The afternoon band will undergo a major reconstruction, where the daily game show "Who knows?" , in which the host will virtually connect with the participants and check how well they know the opinions of Poles. In each episode, we will meet four players who will compete in four rounds, betting on the answers to the questions given by the respondents. In the final, the best of them will have a chance to win up to 20,000. zlotys.