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Jun 3, 2024 | 
tbivision.com | Rob Moyser |Anthony Kimble |Matthew Evenson |Neil Friedman
Switzerland’s pay-TV market fell for a fourth consecutive quarter in 1Q24, with subscriptions down by 17,000 (-0.4%) to reach 3.8 million customers. Omdia’s Rob Moyser explores what is being done by the country’s key players to stem these losses. The country’s top pay-TV operators, Swisscom and Sunrise, were the main drivers of this decline with the former losing 10,000 customers, while the latter lost 6,000 customers.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
tbivision.com | Matthew Evenson |Anthony Kimble |Mark Layton |Richard Middleton
Squid Game‘s global success in 2021 reset the ambitions of globe-trotting drama and set new expectations for streamers. Omdia’s Matthew Evenson explores if the long-awaited sequel will reach similar heights. In the nearly two and a half years since the Korean drama Squid Game took the world by storm, no other non-English-language Netflix title has come close to replicating the level of fervor seen for the dystopian gameshow drama.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Anthony Kimble
As international co-production execs descend upon London tomorrow, TBI’s resident scripted expert and CEO of Arrested Industries Anthony Kimble argues why Hollywood might finally be ready to navigate the new and exciting world of collaborative storytellingAs the curtain falls on Hollywood’s hot labour summer, the post-strike entertainment hellscape is emerging, transformed and daunting.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Anthony Kimble
With the US writers strike finally at an end, Arrested Industries CEO Anthony Kimble reflects on the past five months and compares his diary notes from early September 2022 with a day in early September 2023…SEPT 2022, 07.00: Run through diary with maddeningly efficient assistant.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Anthony Kimble
TBI’s man in LA, Arrested Industries CEO Anthony Kimble, draws a line between the hugely stress-inducing episode of The Bear and the life of a producer as the US strikes drag on. Who’d be a producer? Earlier in my TV career, while working for broadcasters and distributors, I envied many of the producers I met.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Anthony Kimble
With Hollywood closed for business, Arrested Industries CEO & TBI’s resident scripted expert Anthony Kimble leaves LA and finds a new place in the sun for scripted projects. With the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and actors union SAG-AFTRA strikes still in full swing, Hollywood’s ‘summer of discontent’ seems set to continue into autumn. Will there be a breakthrough before the gingerbread lattes arrive at Starbucks and Halloween decorations go up?
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Anthony Kimble
TBI Weekly: Will US strikes provide the great Hollywood reset? Actors union SAG-AFTRA joined the Writers Guild of America this week in downing tools, as US turmoil reached new heights in the battle between studios and creatives. Arrested Industries CEO Anthony Kimble reflects on life in LA and explores potential outcomes from what looks likely to be ‘one big hot mess of a summer’.
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May 26, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Anthony Kimble
Anthony Kimble, co-CEO of Arrested Industries, laments the rise of the reboot & its impact on creativity. There’s a new sound in LA. Rumour is that it’s the ominous death knell for the Golden Age of TV drama!It was only a few years ago that television started to compete with film as a medium where true auteurs could fashion intricate stories.
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Apr 14, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Anthony Kimble
TBI Weekly: Why Hollywood’s C-suite shouldn’t be biting the hand that feeds it With the chances of a US writers strike rising by the day, Arrested Industries co-CEO and founder Anthony Kimble provides his latest take on life in LA and reflects on the ability of C-suite execs to wangle their way onto red carpets This has been my first full awards season since relocating to Los Angeles and the first really in full flow since the pandemic. I didn’t make it onto any of the red (or champagne...
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
tbivision.com | Anthony Kimble
Opinion: In the long run… I’ll always love a limited series In the latest instalment of his TBI column, LA-based exec Anthony Kimble, co-CEO and founder of Arrested Industries, argues that less can be so much more when it comes to scripted series. From Dahmer and Dropout to We Own This City and The White Lotus, limited (or mini or anthology) series have been punching above their weight for some time now.
