10 Stories You Should Know: 05/08/2023

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 Monday, May 8th, 2023:

Irish Film & TV Awards Winners: ‘Bad Sisters’ & ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ Sweep Top Honors (Deadline)
Apple's comedy series Bad Sisters and Martin McDonagh's latest feature, The Banshees of Inisherin, took the top honors at this year's Irish Film & TV Awards (IFTAs). Sharon Horgan's Bad Sisters was the biggest winner on the eve, taking four gongs including Best Drama plus Best Director Drama for Dearbhla Walsh and Actress in a Supporting Role – Drama for Ann Marie Duff. Banshees clocked three wins: the coveted Best Film award alongside Actor in a Supporting Role – Film was awarded to Brendan Gleeson.

South Africa’s Streaming War (My Broadband)
With the most titles and lowest price, Amazon Prime Video has the lowest price-per-title at R0.01. The next best offering comes from Netflix, whose Standard Plan at R159 per month works out to R0.03 per title.

Showmax isn’t far behind Netflix, with the streaming service costing R0.05 per title.

There’s a big jump when looking at DStv Premium and Apple TV+’s price-per-title. They cost R0.43 and R0.72 per title, respectively.

Netflix Provides 'Furies,' Other Vietnamese Films With Newfound Life (Nikkei Asia)
Soon after Netflix began streaming "Furies" on March 23, the violent action movie made the platform's Top 10 list of most-watched foreign films worldwide for two weeks in a row. This sparked renewed interest in Vietnam, keeping the female-led gritty thriller locally known as "Thanh Soi" in the Top 10 in country for a month.

"I didn't even know Vietnam had this kind of movie," said a local viewer.

MBC Launches Arab Version Of Reality TV Show ‘Million Dollar Island’ (Arab News)
MBC announced the launch of “Ard Al-Million” — or “Million Dollar Land” — a new adventure reality TV that will see 100 participants from across the Arab world compete for the chance to win a $1 million grand prize.

A New Streaming Platform Vodylla Launches In Poland (Wirtualnemedia)
For the first weeks, Vodylla has 500 hours of specialized content and hundreds of hours of contracted materials, which will soon be offered. On the site you can find, among others: the Oscar-nominated documentary "Cartel Land" about people on both sides of the US-Mexico border who fight against a brutal drug cartel, and titles such as: "Ja. Sniper" , "Neavy Seals. True Story" (shows the activities of this elite unit from the beaches of Normandy, through the war in Korea and Vietnam, to Iraq and Afghanistan, using original documents), the two-part "Queen. Our days” (portrait of the band and Freddie Mercury).

1001 VOD Service Gets Off To Strong Start (Rapid TV News)
Less than three weeks after its launch, the 1001 Arabic-language entertainment video-on-demand (VOD) platform, backed by Iraq’s Al Sharqiya media and television group, has exceeded a million unique users across its various platforms.

Swisscom Sees Decline In TV Subscribers (Digital TV Europe)
Swisscom’s TV base declined by 1.8% in the first quarter to end with 1.56 million TV customers. The operator’s broadband base also declined by a more modest 0.6% to land on 2.02 million connecgtions. Swisscom said that 1.98 million customers in the residential customer segment were now using its blue brand subscriptions.

Brigitte Bardot Has Agreed To Confide In A Documentary For TF1 (Lefigaro)
Guest of "C media" on France 5, the duo Madame Monsieur revealed that they are working on the musical part of the documentary in which the actress will testify.