Red alert for RAI, Orfeo foresees a loss-making budget for 2018 in the Supervisory Committee.
The new CEO of RAI raises the alarm. The 2018 budget risks incurring an 80-100-million-euro deficit. Mario Orfeo mostly talked about accounts during his first hearing at the Supervisory Committee, pointing out the potential financial difficulties the public...
Discovery conquers Scripps Networks
The merger between Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks Interactive has succeeded. There had been rumours of a strong involvement of Viacom and the US billionaire John Malone’s company (in the photo) to Scripps for days and now we know that the latter won the...
Snapchat and NBC News launch a youth news show lasting a maximum of three minutes.
The most traditional of TV programmes changes and tries to rejuvenate by adapting to smartphones to attract the youngest viewers. This all came out of the observation that the average age of a news programme audience, according to the records of NBC, is 64. Snapchat,...
The summer hit is Tempation Island, Maria De Filippi’s reality show broadcast on Canale 5.
Maria De Filippi hit the jackpot again. The great TV summer hit, Temptation Island, is produced by her company Fascino and is broadcast on Canale 5 on Monday nights. The final episode of the show will be aired tonight and it is expected to be the highest-rated...
Amazon turns to self-distributor: Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel to be the first film released in theatres.
The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Amazon, as audio-visual content producer, took the path to independent distribution too: if at this time the streaming giant used the traditional network (through agreement with Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate), starting from...
News & Documentary Emmy Awards, PBS is leading with 48 nominations, 4 for Best Documentary.
Documentaries vying for the 38th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards (the TV documentary awards) have been announced. Nominations are divided in 49 categories ranging from the “classic” documentary to news reports and multimedia projects. All the documentaries...
Venice 74, line-up announced: Happy Winter (winner of MIA|IDS 2015) among the many Italian works.
The complete line-up of the 74th edition of the Venice International Film Festival has been announced. There are many Italian works among the films in the official competition and in the other sections; some films were present at the previous editions of MIA, such as...
Canal+ and Telecom against Netflix: an initial investment of 100 million euros to produce original content.
Canal+ proposed Tim group to create a joint venture to acquire television and invest in producing original audio-visual content starting from October. The majority shares of the new project, called Canale+, will be held by the Italian company, while French partner...
The three films competing for the 2017 LUX FILM PRIZE announced
President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani announced the three films in contention for the 11th edition of the LUX FILM PRIZE. The first film is BPM (Beats per Minute) by Robin Campillo telling the story of a group of Act Up – Paris activists fighting to make...
Giornate degli Autori 2017, Looking for Oum Kulthum di Shirin Neshat (NCN 2013) and three Italian features in the line-up.
The 14th edition of GiornatedegliAutori presents a line-up of 12 films announced by Director Giorgio Gosetti. There are three Italian works: The Contagion (Il Contagio) by Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini, based on the novel by Walter Siti and produced by Kimera...
Some news of the next TV season.
Among the most curious news of the next TV season, there’s the new edition of Frigo, the docu-cooking programme of Rai2 where singers, hosts, athletes and entrepreneurs talk about their own relationships with food and they will show cameras the contents of their...
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