Joel Marino

SYDNEY: Australia’s Seven has partnered with Samsung to deliver 100 hours of live and on-demand virtual-reality content from the Olympic Games in Rio.

LONDON: Caroline Mickler Limited has signed a license agreement with luxury lingerie brand Coco de Mer to launch a collection inspired by the sequel to the erotic hit Fifty Shades of Grey.

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has picked up the exclusive global rights for the original anime film Blame!, based on the popular manga by Tsutomu Nihei.

SYDNEY: Australia’s Seven Network has closed an agreement for all-encompassing coverage of the Rugby League World Cup, to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand next year.

NEW YORK: Cisneros CEO Adriana Cisneros has been named gala chair for the 44th International Emmy Awards, which will take place this November in New York City.

Australians last week watched a record 175 million minutes of broadcast-TV content on mobiles, laptops, tablets and other connected devices, with home-grown dramas proving a particularly popular genre, according to official OzTAM Video Player Measurement (VPM) figures.

BEVERLY HILLS: Starz is scheduled to launch its app on the Roku platform starting July 17, making available original series such as Outlander and Power on Roku players and TVs.

COLOGNE: Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland’s channel RTL International has launched an app-based live stream for iOS and Android devices.

MONTE CARLO: BBC’s Wolf Hall and Sony Pictures Television’s Better Call Saul were among the international series to score Golden Nymph Awards at the 56th Monte-Carlo Television Festival.

LONDON: Actress Janeane Garofalo has been cast in a recurring guest role on TNT and E4’s upcoming new series Foreign Bodies.