Here are the global TV and streaming television stories you should know for Monday, January 20th, 2025:
BBC Under Fire For App Promos (Advanced-Television)
UK commercial news organisations have attacked the BBC for promoting its services above their media apps on smartphones on Apple and Android platforms. Executives accused the BBC of an aggressive marketing strategy in app stores that has diverted audiences away from commercial news apps.
‘She’s the One’ Writer On How Brazilian Telenovelas Broach Issues Of Racism And Sexism in Family-Friendly TV Slots: ‘It’s All About The Tone’ (Variety)
”I have no reservations in exploring any particular issue; I am only careful with the way I bring these themes into the story so that the audience loyal to the 6 p.m. slot doesn’t reject such discussions,” she emphasizes, adding that her strategy is to broach conversations on themes such as racism and classism in a “softer” tone conducive to the classic period piece. “People embrace it and begin to reflect upon those issues. Many children are watching ‘She’s the One.’ Entire families sit down to watch the novela together. My children watch it. It’s all about the tone.”
BBC Studios Considers Exiting Indian Production Business (Deadline)
BBC Studios is considering winding its content production biz down in India due to the local landscape. The potential exit comes amid industry-wide consolidation and shrinking content budgets from TV broadcasters and OTT platforms, India’s Economic Times first reported.
Sky To Move Sky Cinema Customers To New Paramount+ Basic (With Ads) (Broadband TV News)
Sky TV customers who receive Paramount+ as part of their Sky Cinema subscription are to be moved to the new Paramount+ Basic (with ads) plan from 21 January 2025. In recent months, Sky has built value around its £10 per month premium movie channel package, adding two free tickets a month to the Vue cinema chain, and since launch Paramount+.
Breakout Norwegian Adventure Format ‘The Box’ Lands Second Season On TV2 (Deadline)
Norway’s latest format obsession, The Box, is getting a second season. Commercial broadcaster TV2 has ordered a second run of the adventure reality format, in which celebrity contestants placed in separate boxes find themselves dumped in the middle of challenges that they know nothing about.
EO Media-Sold ‘Sumergidos’ Makes Pan-Latin America Pay TV Debut On A&E Jan. 27 (Variety)
Eze Olzanski’s Buenos Aires-based EO Media has confirmed the Jan. 27 A&E Latin America debut for Argentine-Brazil series “Sumergidos” as it descends on Content Americas. This follows a raft of various new movie deals that the production and distribution company sealed at Mip Cancun with the likes of Paramount, NBC Universal, Globo and MVS. It also closed free TV pacts in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Mexico, Brazil and Uruguay as well as inflight deals for several movies in its slate at the Mexico event.
Showmax's Tyla Concert Marred By Bad Sound Problems (TeeVeeTee)
Although the hastily arranged live-streaming tie-in went off without a hitch on Saturday night, Showmax presents Tyla was marred by sound problems that subscribers kept complaining about. Showmax, which scurried last week to put together a type of pre-show red carpet, also seemed to have done little to get any solid media presence from the traditional press to try and cover Saturday evening's event - opting instead to use influencers, as well as rent-a-crowd social media accounts who fawned on their networks during Tyla's set.
Nippon TV Appoints Fukuda As President (Advanced-Television)
Nippon TV, the Japanese multiplatform entertainment powerhouse, has announced that Hiroyuki Fukuda, former Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, has been promoted to Representative Director, President and Chief Operating Officer of Nippon TV. He replaces Akira Ishizawa who will now serve as the Representative Director of the newly established Yomiuri Chukyo FS Broadcasting Holdings Corporation.
Prime Video Names Keisuke Oishi Country Manager For Japan (Deadline)
Prime Video Japan has a new Country Manager in the shape of Keisuke Oishi. Effective today, the former Sony Corp exec will take on the post after rising through the ranks over ten years at Amazon. Oishi will report to Gaurav Gandhi, Vice President of Prime Video for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa.
Coldplay's India Stadium Show To Livestream On Disney+ Hotstar (MSN)
British rock band Coldplay's biggest-ever Indian concert will be streamed exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar, as the platform makes a move into live music content. The Jan. 26 Republic Day performance from Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium will be available to viewers across India, marking a significant streaming deal that includes exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the band.