A few days after the first season of Citadel arrived on Amazon Prime, said to have cost $300 million to produce, to put that figure into context, here’s a list, showing the cost per episode, of the Top 10 most expensive television shows ever made. 10 – The Crown – $6 million to $13 million […]
Internet-only channel Direct will air French, international and US films and series that are already available on the main Netflix service Netflix chose France for the experiment because the population still watches lots of traditional TV and the company is keen to maintain its advantage over Salto, the French domestic streaming platform that launched in […]
ExCel London in the Royal Docks near City Airport, which was most recently the home of the Nightingale hospital during thee height of the COVID-19 outbreak, is making around 1 million sq ft of space available to film and TV studio production companies until April 2021 ExCel’s halls, which are 33ft in height to their […]
To make up for the dramatic loss of revenue caused by the Covid-19 lockdown, the Utilita Arena in the centre of Birmingham and the Resorts World Arena on the NEC campus on the Eastern outskirts of the city are being transformed into a film and television production complex, reports Broadcast. The news will be welcomed […]
Deluxe Entertainment Services, the distribution side of the business, has been bought by Platinum Equity. Deluxe’s creative services companies, EFILM, Company 3, Encore and VFX outfit Method Studios are not part of the deal. Cyril Drabinsky, who left Deluxe in 2016 to found CineVizion, which was also acquired by Platinum Equity and whose digital cinema […]
Premier League football returns to TV Glenn Cummins, an associate professor at Texas Tech University, is making an academic career from something we all instinctively know – everything’s better when it sounds right and making something that doesn’t look or feel quite right sound better goes some way to improving it. For example, when it […]