Exclusive: UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer is expected to hail the biggest selling film of 2023 being “made and recorded in Hertfordshire – not Hollywood” at a glitzy parliament reception hosted by Warner Bros. Discovery (Wbd) tonight.
TV talent, lawmakers and Wbd execs will attend the private Speaker’s House reception in a few hours’ time, we understand, one in a long line of recent events and coming as Wbd gets closer to the UK government. A number of stars of Wbd shows are expected to be there, along with the likes of its new UK and Ireland boss Andrew Georgiou.
Deadline is told Frazer is expected to shower praise on the U.S. conglomerate’s contribution to the UK sector, as she points out that it has produced more than 300 television series, 27 feature films and 23 video games over the past five years. She will also flag a major expansion of Wbd’s Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire,...
TV talent, lawmakers and Wbd execs will attend the private Speaker’s House reception in a few hours’ time, we understand, one in a long line of recent events and coming as Wbd gets closer to the UK government. A number of stars of Wbd shows are expected to be there, along with the likes of its new UK and Ireland boss Andrew Georgiou.
Deadline is told Frazer is expected to shower praise on the U.S. conglomerate’s contribution to the UK sector, as she points out that it has produced more than 300 television series, 27 feature films and 23 video games over the past five years. She will also flag a major expansion of Wbd’s Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire,...
- 1/17/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
When the news broke on Monday that Warner Bros. Discovery (Wbd) and the European Broadcasting Union (Ebu) had jointly bid for Olympics media rights, it came as a surprise to much of the industry.
Not least because in 2015, (a pre-merger) Discovery Communications caused an upset when they swooped in and nabbed the broadcasting rights from the International Olympic Committee (Ioc) for €1.3 billion (1.5 million), right from under the noses of both the Ebu, which represents public service broadcasters across Europe, and agency SportFive, who had previously held the rights.
The deal saw Discovery’s Eurosport network become the primary European broadcaster for two Olympics “cycles” (each one consisting of a summer and winter games), running from 2018 to 2024. The deal includes next year’s Paris summer games.
Despite the Ioc guaranteeing public service broadcasters a minimum of 200 hours of free-to-air coverage as part of the deal the result was still patchy free-to-air coverage across the continent.
Not least because in 2015, (a pre-merger) Discovery Communications caused an upset when they swooped in and nabbed the broadcasting rights from the International Olympic Committee (Ioc) for €1.3 billion (1.5 million), right from under the noses of both the Ebu, which represents public service broadcasters across Europe, and agency SportFive, who had previously held the rights.
The deal saw Discovery’s Eurosport network become the primary European broadcaster for two Olympics “cycles” (each one consisting of a summer and winter games), running from 2018 to 2024. The deal includes next year’s Paris summer games.
Despite the Ioc guaranteeing public service broadcasters a minimum of 200 hours of free-to-air coverage as part of the deal the result was still patchy free-to-air coverage across the continent.
- 1/17/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Discovery executives outlined their plans in Europe for the Tokyo Olympics, the company’s first Summer Games, saying on Wednesday that they are targeting a record audience across the continent.
Andrew Georgiou, Discovery president of sports, told Discovery U.K. Olympics host Reshmin Chowdhury during a virtual event that getting to the Tokyo Games despite the coronavirus pandemic has been an “extra long journey, and what a challenging one.”
With the opening ceremony just a bit more than a week away, he set out Discovery’s goals this way: “As an ambition, we definitely want that these Summer ...
Andrew Georgiou, Discovery president of sports, told Discovery U.K. Olympics host Reshmin Chowdhury during a virtual event that getting to the Tokyo Games despite the coronavirus pandemic has been an “extra long journey, and what a challenging one.”
With the opening ceremony just a bit more than a week away, he set out Discovery’s goals this way: “As an ambition, we definitely want that these Summer ...
- 7/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Discovery executives outlined their plans in Europe for the Tokyo Olympics, the company’s first Summer Games, saying on Wednesday that they are targeting a record audience across the continent.
Andrew Georgiou, Discovery president of sports, told Discovery U.K. Olympics host Reshmin Chowdhury during a virtual event that getting to the Tokyo Games despite the coronavirus pandemic has been an “extra long journey, and what a challenging one.”
With the opening ceremony just a bit more than a week away, he set out Discovery’s goals this way: “As an ambition, we definitely want that these Summer ...
Andrew Georgiou, Discovery president of sports, told Discovery U.K. Olympics host Reshmin Chowdhury during a virtual event that getting to the Tokyo Games despite the coronavirus pandemic has been an “extra long journey, and what a challenging one.”
With the opening ceremony just a bit more than a week away, he set out Discovery’s goals this way: “As an ambition, we definitely want that these Summer ...
- 7/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Andrew Georgiou has been appointed president of Discovery-owned Eurosport. The sports channels and streaming service has been without a chief since Peter Hutton left for Facebook.
Georgiou assumes a wider role than Hutton, running Eurosport as well as overseeing sports rights and marketing across Discovery. It has been moving aggressively into the sports sector, licensing the Olympics rights in Europe, teaming with the PGA on a golf streaming service, and buying cycling streamer Gcn.
Georgiou joins Discovery from Lagardère Sports and Entertainment, which he joined in 2006 as COO. He was later appointed its CEO for its Asia business before being upped to global CEO in 2014.
In his new role, he will report to Jb Perrette, president and CEO of Discovery International, who said that Georgiou would bring a “strong commercial and entrepreneurial passion and track record” to Discovery. “He’s the ideal person to lead the continued expansion of...
Georgiou assumes a wider role than Hutton, running Eurosport as well as overseeing sports rights and marketing across Discovery. It has been moving aggressively into the sports sector, licensing the Olympics rights in Europe, teaming with the PGA on a golf streaming service, and buying cycling streamer Gcn.
Georgiou joins Discovery from Lagardère Sports and Entertainment, which he joined in 2006 as COO. He was later appointed its CEO for its Asia business before being upped to global CEO in 2014.
In his new role, he will report to Jb Perrette, president and CEO of Discovery International, who said that Georgiou would bring a “strong commercial and entrepreneurial passion and track record” to Discovery. “He’s the ideal person to lead the continued expansion of...
- 6/26/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
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