10 Stories You Should Know: 04/11/2023
Here are the global TV stories that should be on your radar.
Here are the global TV and streaming stories that should be on your radar for Tuesday, April 11th, 2023:
‘Slow Horses’ Season Four: Hugo Weaving, Joanna Scanlan & Ruth Bradley Among Cast To Join Gary Oldman In Apple Spy Series (Deadline)
SAG winner Hugo Weaving (The Lord of the Rings), BAFTA winner Joanna Scanlan (Notes On A Scandal), IFTA winner Ruth Bradley (Guilt), Tom Brooke (Empire of Light) and James Callis (Battlestar Galactica) have joined the season four cast of spy series Slow Horses.
Kazakhstan Seeks To Cooperate With Netflix And Promote Its Movies (The Astana Times)
Kazakhstan is seeking to cooperate with the Netflix streaming service to promote domestic movies on the platform, announced Kazakh Minister of Information and Social Development Darkhan Kydyrali on his Facebook page on April 10 after he met with Alexander Long, regional director for Public Policy at Netflix’s Asia-Pacific headquarters.
Netflix to Remake French Adventure Classic ‘The Wages of Fear’ (The Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix is taking a swing at another film classic, rebooting the Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 French adventure thriller The Wages of Fear. Julien Leclercq, a French action director whose credits include 2010’s hijacking thriller The Assault, 2021’s Sentinelle starring Olga Kurylenko, and the Netflix crime series Ganglands, will adapt the original film.
LaLiga Signs Upstream For Sub-Saharan Africa Mobile Rollout (Digital TV Europe)
Spain’s top flight soccer competition LaLiga has unveiled an exclusive partnership with tech company Upstream that will to bring online portal LaLiga Premium to mobile phone users in sub-Saharan Africa. The partnership will allow mobile network operators in the region to tap into the growing popularity of LaLiga across Africa
Belarus Bans Setanta Sports Channels (TV News.by)
Beltelecom has yet to announce it will no longer carry the channels, while the Minsk operators MTIS and Kosmos TV have informed viewers they will no longer be included in their line-up. Meanwhile, MTS has said the channels will only be temporarily suspended.
BBC & CNN Team For Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster Doc From Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse (Deadline)
The BBC and CNN are teaming up to mark 20 years since the Columbia space shuttle disaster. The broadcasters will co-produce the documentary, working titled Columbia: The Final Flight, with production housed at Mindhouse, the company co-founded by Louis Theroux.
Nielsen reports comparable metrics for local OTT (Advanced-Television)
For the first time, Nielsen has introduced comparable reporting of local US television’s OTT streaming apps when delivered via connected TV devices, apps and/or websites and viewed on the TV. The new capability includes feeds that have unique, streamed content that is not available on the station’s over-the-air channels or direct-to-cable station feeds.
‘House Of The Dragon’, ‘The Crown’ And ‘LOTR’ Help Western Content Boom In India — Study (Deadline)
Indian streaming viewers rushed to U.S. and UK content like never before during the Covid-19 pandemic, a study shows. There was a staggering 124% uptick in viewing of shows such as HBO’s House of the Dragon on subscription streaming services during the period, according to Indian ratings analyst Ormax Media.
Kuwaiti News Outlet Reveals Country’s First AI-Generated Anchor (Arab News)
Introducing herself in Arabic, Fedha made her first appearance on the Twitter account of Kuwait News.
The AI-generated news anchor is in the image of a woman with blonde hair and brown eyes. She was dressed in a black blazer and a white top.
Despite Nationwide Ban, Indian Viewers Are Finding Ways To Watch BBC Narendra Modi Doc (Deadline)
The BBC’s controversial Narendra Modi documentary may have been banned in India but local viewers are still finding ways to watch it, according to analysts. Global analysis firm Parrot Analytics ranked India: The Modi Question amongst its top 10 ‘global breakout shows’ outside the U.S.