{"id":6742,"date":"2016-05-16T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T14:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/itv-scores-majority-stake-in-nordic-on-demand-service-cirkus\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:11:49","slug":"itv-scores-majority-stake-in-nordic-on-demand-service-cirkus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/05\/16\/itv-scores-majority-stake-in-nordic-on-demand-service-cirkus\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV Buys Majority Stake in Nordic On-Demand Service Cirkus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: ITV has taken a majority stake in Cirkus, an on-demand service currently operating in the Nordic region.<\/p>\n<p>Cirkus has deals with a number of major pay-TV operators in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. The service has distribution rights for a slew of British series, including <em>Poldark<\/em>, <em>Shetland<\/em>, <em>Vera<\/em>, <em>Endeavour<\/em> and <em>Lewis<\/em>, all of which are available to Nordic viewers via Cirkus.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Cirkus has begun to acquire program rights on an exclusive basis. It has already secured the exclusive on-demand rights for the latest seasons of the BBC hit police drama <em>Line of Duty<\/em> and the ITV production <em>Victoria<\/em>, a major new eight-part period drama that follows the early life of Queen Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Goswami, ITV&#8217;s director of pay and distribution, said: \u201cCirkus is an important part of ITV\u2019s international pay television distribution strategy. We look forward to accelerating the growth of the business through investment in exclusive content rights and supporting its development as it expands into new territories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark Bradford and Hugh Williams of Cirkus said: \u201cITV\u2019s decision to step-up its investment is a tremendous vote of confidence for Cirkus. Being the Nordic on-demand TV business of one of Europe\u2019s largest and most successful vertically integrated content and television businesses will strengthen our position in the market enormously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: ITV has taken a majority stake in Cirkus, the on-demand TV service currently operating in the Nordic region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[552,146],"class_list":["post-6742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-cirkus","tag-itv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ITV Buys Majority Stake in Nordic On-Demand Service Cirkus - TVEUROPE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2016\/05\/16\/itv-scores-majority-stake-in-nordic-on-demand-service-cirkus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ITV Buys Majority Stake in Nordic On-Demand Service Cirkus - 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