ITV CEO on Paramount-WBD and ITV Studios After Banijay, All3Media Megadeal: “We Don’t Feel It Will Have Any Impact on Us”

ITV CEO on Paramount-WBD and ITV Studios After Banijay, All3Media Megadeal: “We Don’t Feel It Will Have Any Impact on Us”

Does U.K. TV giant ITV, led by CEO Carolyn McCall, feel more pressure to boost the scale of its production arm ITV Studios after this week’s news of the mega-merger between production giants Banijay and All3Media? What is the state of ITV’s deal talks with Comcast‘s Sky? And what does the Paramount Skydance deal for…

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Will Sharpe Is Mozart and Paul Bettany an Envious Court Composer in First Look at Sky’s ‘Amadeus’

Will Sharpe Is Mozart and Paul Bettany an Envious Court Composer in First Look at Sky’s ‘Amadeus’

Will Sharpe is musical prodigy Wolfgang ‘Amadeus’ Mozart in a new photos from the upcoming show Amadeus. Sky released a first look at the limited series on Thursday with Paul Bettany starring as envious court composer Antonio Salieri and Gabrielle Creevy as Constanze Weber, Mozart’s fiercely loyal wife. Based on Peter Shaffer’s award-winning stage play,…

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Sky Doc on Flight 149 British Airways Passengers, Crew Held Hostage by Saddam Hussein Gets Trailer

Sky Doc on Flight 149 British Airways Passengers, Crew Held Hostage by Saddam Hussein Gets Trailer

Flight 149: Hostage of War is the title of a new Sky feature documentary that recounts “one of the most extraordinary – and until recently, officially denied – chapters of the Gulf War,” the Comcast-owned company said on Friday in unveiling a trailer for the original film that will debut in the U.K. and Ireland in June. “On Aug. 2, 1990, just…

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#TIFF According to Sky Original Film’s Julia Stuart

#TIFF According to Sky Original Film’s Julia Stuart

Julia Stuart, the director of Sky Original Film, heads up a team that acquires exclusive rights and commissions original feature productions for Sky Cinema’s platform as well as theatrical release. Stuart and her team have brought several major titles to Sky, including Michael Mann’s Ferrari, May December starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, and The…

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#Sky Content Team Rejig Expands Remit of Meghan Lyvers as Scripted Head, Caroline Cooper as COO

#Sky Content Team Rejig Expands Remit of Meghan Lyvers as Scripted Head, Caroline Cooper as COO

Comcast-owned European media and telecommunications giant Sky recently all of its non-sports content teams in the U.K. and Ireland under one leadership structure, led by Cécile Frot-Coutaz as she expanded her role from CEO of Sky Studios by adding the chief content officer title. In late July, BBC Studios said that its BBC Studios Productions arm has named…

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