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Serving For The Match
Warner Bros. Discovery has extended its rights to show the U.S. Open in 45 markets across Europe, including exclusive access in 42 territories, after reaching a new five-year agreement with the United States Tennis Association (Usta). Territories excluded from the deal are Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and Ireland.
The deal includes live and highlights rights with every match on every court available to stream on discovery+ and the Eurosport app in addition to live television coverage during the tournament on Eurosport 1 and 2.
Markets including the Nordics will also have the option to showcase the best matches on Warner Bros. Discovery’s free-to-air channels.
Warner Bros. Discovery reported record audience engagement in many major markets following the 2022 US Open. This includes the best ever streaming performance on its digital platforms, doubling its audience year-on-year on discovery+, and securing the highest ever viewership on Eurosport...
Warner Bros. Discovery has extended its rights to show the U.S. Open in 45 markets across Europe, including exclusive access in 42 territories, after reaching a new five-year agreement with the United States Tennis Association (Usta). Territories excluded from the deal are Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and Ireland.
The deal includes live and highlights rights with every match on every court available to stream on discovery+ and the Eurosport app in addition to live television coverage during the tournament on Eurosport 1 and 2.
Markets including the Nordics will also have the option to showcase the best matches on Warner Bros. Discovery’s free-to-air channels.
Warner Bros. Discovery reported record audience engagement in many major markets following the 2022 US Open. This includes the best ever streaming performance on its digital platforms, doubling its audience year-on-year on discovery+, and securing the highest ever viewership on Eurosport...
- 2/14/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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BBC Drama Director Lindsay Salt has assembled her commissioning team with a triple hire including the EP on Candice Carty-Williams’ Champion and a former Doctor Who script editor.
Danielle Scott-Haughton and Nick Lambon join as BBC Drama Commissioning Editors, while Sami El-Hadi becomes Head of Development, joining from Ackley Bridge producer The Forge.
The trio join a new-look team that has been hit by a raft of exits over the past few months since Drama Director Piers Wenger left to join A24, including Ben Irving, who moved to Fifth Season, Manda Levin, Tom Lazenby and Tommy Bulfin.
Levin is freelancing with the Netflix drama commissioning team and Lazenby has joined Wenger at A24.
Scott-Haughton joins the BBC from Balloon Entertainment, where she has most recently been EP on Champion, the BBC and Netflix’s upcoming musical drama series from Queenie author Carty-Williams.
Lambon is a freelance script editor whose past...
Danielle Scott-Haughton and Nick Lambon join as BBC Drama Commissioning Editors, while Sami El-Hadi becomes Head of Development, joining from Ackley Bridge producer The Forge.
The trio join a new-look team that has been hit by a raft of exits over the past few months since Drama Director Piers Wenger left to join A24, including Ben Irving, who moved to Fifth Season, Manda Levin, Tom Lazenby and Tommy Bulfin.
Levin is freelancing with the Netflix drama commissioning team and Lazenby has joined Wenger at A24.
Scott-Haughton joins the BBC from Balloon Entertainment, where she has most recently been EP on Champion, the BBC and Netflix’s upcoming musical drama series from Queenie author Carty-Williams.
Lambon is a freelance script editor whose past...
- 2/14/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Hanna producer Working Title TV is adapting Inua Ellams’ play Black T-Shirt Collection into a TV series – marking the first television project for the rising playwright and poet.
The London-based producer, which is a joint venture with NBCUniversal International Studios, secured the rights to the play with Ellams, who recently created The National Theatre’s Barbershop Chronicles, adapting the series into a four-part series.
The play, which combines poetry, spoken word and graphic art, and the TV remake, are set across Nigeria, Egypt, England and China and follows two Nigerian foster brothers, Matthew and Muhammed, whose handmade t-shirts become a global streetwear brand. Against the backdrop of tragedy their success is tainted by blood as their personal lives and growing business empire cross the lines of globalised capitalism, sectarianism and homophobia.
The show begins in 1993 when the grieving widow of a Muslim family adopts a young Christian boy in...
The London-based producer, which is a joint venture with NBCUniversal International Studios, secured the rights to the play with Ellams, who recently created The National Theatre’s Barbershop Chronicles, adapting the series into a four-part series.
The play, which combines poetry, spoken word and graphic art, and the TV remake, are set across Nigeria, Egypt, England and China and follows two Nigerian foster brothers, Matthew and Muhammed, whose handmade t-shirts become a global streetwear brand. Against the backdrop of tragedy their success is tainted by blood as their personal lives and growing business empire cross the lines of globalised capitalism, sectarianism and homophobia.
The show begins in 1993 when the grieving widow of a Muslim family adopts a young Christian boy in...
- 5/7/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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