The Japanese pay tv channel will offer the first season of the series, which has now sold to 94 countries. Season 2 begins filming in South Africa in April 2024.
The number of pay TV subscribers across 138 countries will remain at just under 1 billion, according to the latest report from Digital TV Research, which forecasts a slender decline until 2025, with a small recovery thereafter.
In 2015, just 13% of homes paying for a service subscribed to both an online video service and a traditional pay TV service, but by the end of last year, that figure had more than trebled to 47%, according to Omdia.
Parks Associates and Adeia’s latest white paper describes how vMVPD services are augmenting – and in some cases replacing – traditional pay TV services as the primary source of innovative advertising-based business models.
Walt Disney Co. has pulled its channels from Charter Communications’ Spectrum pay-TV service in a festering fee dispute that could portend significant changes for consumers.