Tag: Sky

Sky has ordered four series of original digital shorts for its YouTube channel, including series with comedy star Kae Kurd, Internet personality Stevo the Madman, stand-up comedian Andrew Mensah and comedian and actor Kyrah Gray.

This afternoon at Series Mania Forum, Cécile Frot-Coutaz, Meghan Lyvers and Nils Hartmann discussed the commissioning strategies behind Sky’s success.

Sky has exclusively acquired seasons three and four of the comedy series Hacks in the U.K.

Sky has struck up a two-year partnership with TGL presented by SoFi, the new team golf league founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TMRW Sports.

Sky and Amazon have extended their long-term collaboration that sees Prime Video continue to be available on the pay-TV platform’s devices in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.

Steven Frayne, the magician formerly known as Dynamo, is set to return in an upcoming Sky original Christmas special.

Sky and UKTV have extended their long-standing partnership, securing carriage for UKTV’s pay channels Alibi and Gold across Sky platforms in the U.K. and Ireland.

Cineflix Rights has closed a raft of deals with numerous U.K. broadcasters and streamers for scripted and factual content, including the crime drama Girl in the Video and the true-crime series Spring Break Murders.

The group director of acquisitions for the U.K., Ireland and Europe talks about her acquisitions remit.

Priya Dogra, formerly president and managing director for EMEA at Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), has been tapped by Sky for the newly created role of chief advertising and new revenue officer.