World Screen

LONDON: Virgin Media has signed an agreement to bring Netflix onto a pay-TV platform for the first time. A Netflix app is becoming available to Virgin Media TiVo households, allowing customers to watch Netflix series, documentaries, comedies and kids' titles through their set-top box. This delivers original series such as …

PARIS: Banijay Group has acquired DLO Producciones, expanding its activities in Spain and bringing the company into the drama genre. The drama and entertainment production house is led by Spanish producer José Manuel Lorenzo. Banijay also owns Ana Rosa Quintana's Cuarzo Producciones in Spain. Lorenzo and Quintana will be working …

CANNES: From the creators of Merlin, the 13-part drama Atlantis is being presented by BBC Worldwide with a special event in Cannes. “With high production values, it is going to bring the lost city of Atlantis to life in a way that has never been done before—combining a dramatic story …

LONDON: According to a new report from Digital TV Research, Discovery Channel is the service with the widest distribution in Europe, available on 171 platforms. National Geographic Channel was second on 169 platforms, Eurosport third with 164 platforms, MTV fourth on 160 and CNN fifth with 157 operators. The top …

AMSTERDAM: Netflix is now available in the Netherlands, delivering instant access to a range of TV shows and movies for streaming, including a number of Dutch titles. Netflix originals such as House of Cards, Hemlock Grove, the latest season of Arrested Development and Orange is the New Black will be …

PARIS: Last year, sales of French TV programming internationally increased by 14.8 percent, netting 127 million euros ($168.4 million), the highest level in 12 years. Total exports, including sales and presales, were up 8 percent to 165.9 million euros ($220 million), which is their highest value in 11 years. International …

LONDON: Shiver is creating Utterly Outrageous, a youth-geared archive brand, for ITV2. The strand will include a variety of hour-long shows, including Utterly Outrageous Celebrity Frock Ups, presented by Denise Van Outen, and Utterly Outrageous Reality Show Moments of 2013, led by Matt Edmondson. These programs will respectively air in October …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2013 issue of World Screen. When the Turkish drama Gümüs first aired in 2005 on Kanal D, the channel’s management had no idea they had unleashed a cultural phenomenon and launched a hugely popular and profitable genre. Irfan Sahin, the CEO of Kanal …

LONDON: ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has sold a package of 317 hours of drama and factual-entertainment programming to the Norwegian broadcaster NRK. The deal includes the renowned crime franchises Vera seasons three and four, Agatha Christie's Marple season six and the 13th and final season of Agatha Christie's …

MUNICH: Sky Deutschland has secured a movie package from Tele München Group (TMG) for its linear film channels as well as on demand for Sky Anytime and Sky Go. Highlights of the package include Night Train to Lisbon as well as the highly anticipated upcoming Nymphomaniac 1 from director Lars …