Production & Post
Pinewood Studios submits £800 million expansion plan for approval
Plans include a new £450 million screen industries growth hub, known as Centre Stage, based on a new 77-acre site at the iconic complex
TV
Audio
New TV and film music platform launches ready for the metaverse
It will feature a curated gallery of Dolby Atmos as standard soundtracks and songs for cinema, TV, advertising, trailers, games, VR, AR and XR
Production & Post
Pinewood updates expansion plans to include more studio space
Studio said it had listened to feedback from its customers and the market
Production & Post
UK ‘needs another 6 million sq ft of production space’ to meet demand
According to global real estate company Knight Frank, the number of planning consents for studios has increased by 45 per cent between 2018 and...
Production & Post
New 1.3 million sq ft studios facility set to open in Bedfordshire
Home of Production (HOP) Studios is expected to open in 2024
Production & Post
Survey: Virtual and remote production to drive TV and film post-pandemic
Survey, conducted by telecommunications, media and technology consulting firm Altman Solon, spoke to industry executives across productions in 30+ countries
Media Consumption
Sony unveils BRAVIA XR with Netflix image calibration
Automatically produces lighting conditions intended by the content's creator
Media Consumption
TVs will lead the push to 8K
SMPTE 2020 panel recommends content creators start shooting in 8K now
Media Consumption
BBC reaches record global audience
Corporation now reaches 468.2 million people a week globally
Business
TV, film, radio and photography industries set to lose over 100K jobs this year
Creative industries could lose £74 billion in revenue in 2020, which equates to making all eight series of Game of Thrones 150 times over
Media Delivery
Quibi heads to TV (sort of)
Users will be able to cast from their smartphones to TV screen from next month
Data Centre
BARB: TV set viewing on the rise amid COVID-19
"Approaching the amounts that we usually see over Christmas"
News
Business
Bectu, EPC urge governments to safeguard industry workers
Organisations raise concerns over impact of coronavirus on film and TV sector
Business
Samsung, 8K Association partner for certification programme
The Samsung QLED 8K will be among the first TVs to be certified by the 8KA this year
TVBEverywhere
BBC launches TV archive website
More than 1,700 videos made available on bbc.co.uk/archive
TVBEverywhere
Sharp to debut “world’s largest” 8K LCD TV
The 120-inch TV also features 5G connectivity
Data Centre
TV is “most popular pastime” for consumers
40 per cent spend 10+ weekly hours watching TV
Data Centre
2018 saw “strongest growth rate of the decade” for TV shipments
"8K is standing on the threshold of growth"
TVBEverywhere
BBC reports record global audiences
The likes of YouTube and Facebook "add up to over 60 per cent of audience reach"
Data Centre
Consumers will spend 800 hours on mobile internet in 2019
TV remains the biggest medium globally
TVBEverywhere
LG starts taking orders for 8K OLED TV
Uses deep learning algorithms to upscale 4K content
Data Centre
Broadcast considered the most trusted media in Europe
EBU finds that 85 per cent of European countries trust radio and 75 per cent trust TV
Data Centre
8K technology market predicted to be worth $26.8 billion by 2024
Market is currently predicted to be worth $2.9 billion in 2019
Data Centre
Television most popular medium for live viewing
Almost three-quarters watch live programmes on a television
Technology
VO partners with Technicolor for simplified Android TV delivery
Provides highest security levels for premium video content protection
TVBEverywhere
European political bodies reach TV copyright agreement
Agree to facilitate access to online TV and radio content across borders
Production & Post
New film and TV studio to open in Oxfordshire
Video game company Rebellion has bought the studio near Didcot
TVBEverywhere
Europe’s TV subscriptions to hit 262 million
SVoD subscribers predicted to triple between 2015 and 2018
Data Centre
TV to represent 80 per cent of global video ad spend by 2023
New report from Strategy Analytics
Videos
Content
BARB begins measuring multiple-screen viewing
Will begin producing daily audience figures for those watching on TV sets, tablets, PCs and smartphones
Technology
Samsung to showcase new QLED 8K TV
Q900R will feature Real 8K Resolution and AI upscaling, Q HDR 8K and Quantum Processor 8K
Content
Guinness World Records names “Officially Amazing” TV shows
Parrot Analytics charted demand for series in 2017 using its real-time TV demand measurement system
Content
BuzzFeed launches live UK TV show on Twitter
#What2Watch is a weekly show offering viewers suggestions of what they should be watching
TVBEverywhere
Juventus unveils new in-house OTT service
The Serie A club has cancelled its linear TV channel
Features
Bringing TV to Life VIII: The innovation opportunity
An Accenture Global Video exec weighs in on the company's latest video market report
Data Centre
Most watched TV programmes in the UK 2018 revealed
Programmes with the highest number of views per episode each month have been named
Data Centre
Average TV viewing time in the UK decreased in 2017
Time spent per day watching TV dropped by nine minutes last year, reports Ofcom
Business
dock10 recruits Ian Dodd as head of post production
UK-based TV facility has bolstered its post production team with additional appointments
Technology
Akamai reveals best bitrates for optimal viewing experience
6-8Mbps deemed optimal for connected TVs