BEIJING – The China International Television Corporation (CITVC) will launch China Hour in Portugal with Porto Canal. The weekly program titled China Hour will air in prime time on Wednesdays at 21:00, with two repeat broadcasts on Thursday and Saturday. China Hour on Porto Canal will commence broadcasting on 18 September. The news was announced by Ms. Jianing Shen, Executive Vice President of CITVC and General Manager of China Radio, Film … [Read more...] about CITVC launches “China Hour” in Portugal with Porto Canal
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ITV Studios secures European deals for hit formats
LONDON – ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has secured two brand new Central and Eastern European territories for its hit format Four Weddings, together with recommissions in the region for two of its other biggest shows, Hell’s Kitchen and The Chase. Four Weddings, which follows four different brides as they each judge each other’s big day, will launch on Polsat in Poland (10x60) and in Croatia on RTL (30x60), with the number of countries the format has reached now over … [Read more...] about ITV Studios secures European deals for hit formats
Amazon Prime Video brings India a new comedy talent show
MUMBAI – Amazon Prime Video has released the trailer of their new Prime Original series Comicstaan. Produced by Only Much Louder (OML) and hosted by ace comedians Abish Mathew and Sumukhi Suresh, Comicstaan is a talent hunt to discover India’s next big comedic talent. The show brings together seven of India’s top comedians – Tanmay Bhat, Kenny Sebastian, Sapan Verma, Naveen Richard, Kaneez Surkha, Kanan Gill and Biswa Kalyan Rath, to guide, mentor and judge the budding talent, as … [Read more...] about Amazon Prime Video brings India a new comedy talent show
M1 and Huawei embark on first end-to-end 5G live tests in Singapore
SINGAPORE – M1 and Huawei have announced plans to jointly showcase innovative 5G use cases in Singapore, starting with the live demonstration of 360-view Virtual Reality (VR) content broadcast. The demonstration, using 5G equipment setup at M1’s MiWorld building in Jurong, is Singapore’s first end-to-end 5G live trial using Huawei’s 5G equipment operating at the 28GHz millimetre wave (mmWave) frequency band. In the recent years, creative content and exciting new … [Read more...] about M1 and Huawei embark on first end-to-end 5G live tests in Singapore
RemoveDEBRIS spacecraft launched from ISS
TOULOUSE/STEVENAGE/BREMEN – The space debris removal technology mission RemoveDEBRIS, led by the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) at the University of Surrey, has been launched into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS). RemoveDEBRIS will demonstrate a range of innovative technologies to clean up space debris, with the first Airbus designed and built experiment due for deployment in October 2018. The spacecraft features three Airbus technologies to perform Active Debris Removal … [Read more...] about RemoveDEBRIS spacecraft launched from ISS
Polsat acquires Prime’s prophecy documentary
PARIS/LOS ANGELES – Producer and distributor Prime Entertainment Group has just inked a new deal with major Polish channel Polsat for the acclaimed documentary The Prophecy of the Popes to be aired in September. Saint Malachy, an obscure Irish archbishop from the 12th century, is said to have written a text called “The Prophecy of the Popes”, in which he foretold the end of the papacy, the destruction of Rome, and the Last Judgment. Is it merely an apocalyptic vision, … [Read more...] about Polsat acquires Prime’s prophecy documentary