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Why LaVar Ball has chosen Facebook for his family reality TV series

Tim Mulligan

26 Feb 2019

Facebook has commissioned LaVar Ball for a docuseries, which revolves around his basketball superstar sons - Lonzo, Liangelo, LaMelo and their fast-rising careers in the second most widely viewed sport in the US (per Deadline ).

2019 – The year the traditional TV ratings system finally crumbles

Tim Mulligan

2 Jan 2019

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2019 has only just begun andalready the traditional world ofthe TV ratings has sustained a heavy blow with US TV Network CBS not renewingits Nielsen contract into 2019 (per Broadcasting+Cable ). This is a significant blow in both financial and strategic terms to the public research company which is ...

Netflix Q3: The SVOD giant pushes on, but the tail risks are mounting

Tim Mulligan

17 Oct 2018

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Yesterday’s Q3 earnings results for Netflix were welcomed by a Wall Street unnerved by last week’s US stock sell off and fear that the tech majors, the growth engine for the 10-year bull run,are losing momentum.

Is YouTube The Digital Successor To Free-To-View TV?

Tim Mulligan

24 Oct 2017

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On October 17th, YouTube made another significant step towards supplanting the TV industry with the free-to-view ad-supported release of a YouTube original documentary on music artist Demi Lovato, entitled Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated - Official Documentary .

Apple, The Culver Studios And The Importance Of Content

Tim Mulligan

4 Sep 2017

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The Financial Times has reported that Apple is planning to acquire The Culver Studios, a complex of film-making buildings in LA next to where Sony Pictures is based. The Culver Studios has a long history in Hollywood, with the likes of Howard Hughes and Cecil B.

Virtual Reality And Scripted Drama

Tim Mulligan

13 May 2016

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At the start of 2016 the tech hype machine was going into overdrive over the potential for Virtual Reality to finally break through to the mainstream. January’s CES in Las Vegas featured the launch of Fox Studio’s The Martian Experience, their second VR project in conjunction with a major big sc...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Netflix Leads Format Innovation

Mark Mulligan

22 Dec 2015

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The advent of Video On Demand transformed the business models of the broadcast and pay-TV industries. Now it is set to have an equally disruptive impact on the nature of video content itself as the old analogue limits of linear TV programming no longer apply.

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Netflix Gets Ready To Disrupt TV Commissioning In 2016

Tim Mulligan

10 Dec 2015

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This week, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s head of content revealed the company’s 2016 originals pipeline. Netflix will nearly double its roster of original series from this year’s 16 to 31 in 2016. It will also build up the critical success of this year’s “Beasts Of No Nation” by releasing 10 f...

Why The Novel Is A Key Component Of The Multi Media Landscape

Tim Mulligan

16 Oct 2015

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Perhaps the most revealing comment at MIPCOM 2015 was the one made by Nick North, the BBC Director of Audiences. He stated, that he was more concerned about losing the attention of young viewers distracted by their devices than about the new online video competitors such as Netflix.

Quick Take: Too Much Demand And Not Enough Television Talent

Mark Mulligan

7 Oct 2015

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So The Hollywood Reporter runs with a story about the tumultuous Fall Season for the American TV production community . It wasn’t meant to be this way, it was meant to be the scripted drama renaissance.