Category: WESTERN EUROPE

News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)

ITALY / Mediaset Premium: increase in number of subscribers

By September 30th Mediaset Premium’s pay TV had 1.81 million subscribers, exceeding the target set in the Quarterly Budget for July-September 2015, the group said in a statement published on October 9th, with 112,000 more subscribers than at end of June (1.703 million). These figures do not include customers with pre-paid cards. Mediaset has set …

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FRANCE / The CSA withdraws its licence for Numéro 23 to transmit

On October 14th the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (the French broadcasting watchdog) announced its verdict on the proposed sale of Numéro 23 to the NextRadioTV group, owner of BFM TV, RMC and RMC Découverte, for €88.3 million. In a statement the French broadcasting regulating authority announced it is withdrawing its authorization for the channel to …

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FRANCE SPAIN / CMCA partner of CineHorizontes

The 14th CineHorizontes, a festival of Spanish Film in Marseille, will be held from November 6th to 15th at the Cinéma Le Prado and in partner cinemas across the city and the PACA region. The programme includes the screening of some fifty films, mostly around themes of elsewhere, a window on the south and a …

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FRANCE / First French showing of the documentary “Spartans”

The CMCA, in collaboration with the Swiss Consulate in Marseille, the Alcazar Library, Akka Films, France Télévisions, RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse) and Mission Film Distributors is organizing the first screening in France of Nicolas Wadimoff‘s 2014 Swiss documentary “Spartans” (winner of several awards in North America and Europe). The screening will take place on Friday, …

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ITALY / “Suburra”, Netflix Italian series

In a press release on October 5th, the video-on-demand service Netflix announced its first Italian co-production, “Suburra”, in partnership with the production company Cattleya and in collaboration with Rai. Cattleya is already busy with successful series such as “Gomorra” and “Romanzo Criminale”. “Suburra” is an adaptation of Stefano Sollima’s film of the same name released …

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ITALY / Tension in the air filming “Gomorra”

The Italian series “Gomorra”, adapted from Roberto Saviano’s novel, has just started filming its second season. However, several districts and  suburbs of Naples such as Giuliano, Acerra and Afragola do not welcome the filming of this series about the Neapolitan Mafia, the Camorra. Thus, as the newspaper Le Monde said: “the mayors and administrators of …

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ITALY / Good audience for “Woman with a Camera”

Karima Zoubir’s documentary “Woman with a Camera”, winner of the Rai 3 Broadcasting Award at PriMed 2014, aired on the Italian channel on August 12th at 11h40pm. It was watched by 411,000 viewers, or 5.57% of the public. The documentary is about Khadija, a young Moroccan woman, illiterate and divorced, who, despite strong resistance from …

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