In this 2016 edition, the UK was featured with great honor as BBC’s The Night Manager, produced by The Ink Factory, and starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, won the GRAND PRIZE at the awards ceremony. Susanne Bier also won the Best Director award in the individual categories. Meanwhile, Viki’s first original TV series DRAMAWORLD was […]
We are glad to bring to you the list of nominees for this year’s SDA, fresh from their webmagazine 7. “With a total of 212 entries from 48 different countries, 24 titles have been selected, with 8 per category: TV movie, mini-series and TV series. Nominees for the TV Movies category are: My Home, My […]
Earlier this month, news was reported that Japanese telco SoftBank was looking to disvest from DramaFever, and that Warner Bros is a likely acquirer. The news followed the unexpected decision of acquiring British drama series from BBC Worldwide, the distribution arm of the BBC, for the U.S. only. The deal is apparently the first of […]
On Monday 9 March, international Korean news, culture and entertainment channel, Arirang TV, announced agreements with the UK’s leading pay TV satellite operator, BSkyB, and the UK’s leading free-to-air satellite operator, Freesat (a JV between BBC and ITV). It is the first time the channel will be available on local satellite platforms. Although it could […]
On September 24, The Hospital Club welcomed a number of important personalities from the Korean drama industry, as producers and executives from the major broadcasters came to attend a K-Drama Showcase – part of the KCCUK’s K-Drama Week. After a first session dedicated to explore collaboration opportunities between South Korea and the UK, which the […]
Although many Koreans come to study and work in the United Kingdom, relationships between South Korea and our country have not been that close. But in the past two years, things seem to have changed radically – especially in South Korea. Indeed, while the Korean Cultural Centre UK has been very actively promoting Korean culture […]