Articles by Adrian Pennington

IBC Conference: Roku on the value of out-of-app discovery

Watching TV is not supposed to be hard. It should be pleasurable, but the industry has tied itself in knots as content and platforms fragment then coalesce in the shift to streaming.

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IBC Conference: Yahoo Mail’s Harish Sarma on the untouched territory of broadcaster emails

IBC Conference: Yahoo Mail’s Harish Sarma on the “untouched territory” of broadcaster emails

Yahoo Mail Vice President (VP) of Business Development and Partnerships Harish Sarma will speak on the IBC panel ‘The Power of Collaboration: How strategic partnerships are transforming broadcasting’ on 12 September.

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Behind the Scenes: Bookish

Behind the scenes – Bookish: “We murder very well”

It seems unlikely that Mark Gatiss would ever get angry but mention ‘cosy crime’ and the Sherlock creator exhibits mild exasperation.

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Producer Lewis Hamilton on the set of Apple Original Films’ “F1® The Movie,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release

Behind the scenes – F1: The Movie

F1: The Movie gives the sensation of racing at 200mph from a driver’s eye view thanks to two sets of new cameras custom-engineered for the film.

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Lions Tour

How Sky Sports is delivering the Lions Tour down under

Remote production takes centre stage as Sky teams up with Stan Sport to deliver UHD footage at the heart of the action.

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A fake commercial for Volvo by László Gaál using RunwayML Gen-3

Video replicants and the drive for ethical LLMs

Image generators such as Veo 3 can now convincingly simulate human emotions, interactions and voice but the speed of development leaves production companies crying out for ethical LLMs.

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Jurassic World Rebirth

Behind the Scenes: Jurassic World Rebirth

The VFX blockbuster opts for an old school production by shooting extensively on location and on film.

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Esports World Cup 2025

Esports World Cup plans biggest video game tournament ever staged

Returning to Riyadh this month for its second outing, the Esports World Cup is being billed as the most ambitious and technologically advanced global competitive event in history.

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UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 will be held in Switzerland

BBC goes hybrid for coverage of UEFA Women’s Euros

A hybrid remote and on-site production with Sunset+Vine, editorial about alpine bees and a deluxe Swiss chalet on the banks of Lake Lucerne. The BBC is ready for the Lionesses to defend their trophy.

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Tour de France

BTS: Tour de France 2025

How wind tunnel data, official route topography, multi-screen live feeds and 21 daily outside broadcasts combine to bring the most brutally mountainous Tour De France ever to cycling fans on their sofa.

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