CBS has taken a comedy pilot from the showrunners of the US version of Ghosts to series but passed on another show.

Amazon-owned Prime Video has given a straight-to-series order to a crime thriller created by David Weil (Hunters) and executive produced by actor Glen Powell.

Comcast has added Disney+, Hulu and HBO Max to its Xfinity StreamSaver offer, which bundles different streaming services together.

Paramount-owned 5 in the UK has teamed up again with ITN Productions for Michael Palin in the Philippines, its fifth travel series with the Monty Python star.

Love it, hate it, or blissfully unaware of it, the virality of Fruit Love Island on TikTok and YouTube tells us a lot about the appeal of good old-fashioned TV formats in the age of AI.  

A Hollywood producer whose credits include Top Gun: Maverick and Star Wars: The Force Awakens is launching what he says will be "the HBO" of vertical video to counter the flood of microdrama apps peddling low quality content.

Samsung TV Plus has added an Amazon Live free, ad-supported streaming TV channel, it what it describes as a "first-of-its-kind" partnership

Jonathan Newman has formally stepped into the role of chief commercial officer at UKTV, which has also appointed David Swetman, All3Media International's senior VP of content and commercial strategy.

UK-based AI specialist prodco Deep Fusion Films has hired Alexandra Wall, former head of streaming editorial at Channel 4, and launched a new YouTube channel fronted by a contestant on the UK version of The Traitors.

An AI-generated animated microdrama inspired by ITV Studios' hit format Love Island has taken social media by storm, racking up hundreds of millions of views, as the volume of AI-made microdrama is set to surge on platforms such as TikTok.