Fox told to engage with Comcast despite rival bid benefit to Murdoch

Comcast’s plan to top Disney’s $52bn bid deserves fair hearing, says activist investor

Just 16% of screenwriters in UK film are women, study finds

Writers’ Guild says number of women in film and TV has ‘flatlined’ and urges commissioners to ‘let women tell stories’

Almost 18 million Britons tuned in to coverage, with BBC trouncing its competition

DAZN aims to revolutionise US pay-per-view boxing after link-up with promoter Eddie Hearn

NBC Universal also believed to be involved in discussions on how to combat Netflix and Amazon

Cross-promotion to Amazon shoppers and new on-demand series rank it top in 2017

EU law says services must meet ‘Netflix quota’ and fund European TV series and films

US broadcasting and cable TV firm enters bidding war with Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox

Australian TV lobby says digital giants do not ‘contribute in any meaningful way towards cost of the content they monetise’

Move aims to allay media plurality fears over 21st Century Fox’s takeover of British broadcaster

Cambridge Analytica scandal unlikely to diminish sector’s dominance, says eMarketer

Broadcaster fears being ‘overtaken by competitors’ as technology firms increasingly dominate on-demand viewing

Gillian Armstrong, Peter Weir, Rose Byrne and Richard Roxburgh among 215 people who have put names to appeal

Group behind celebrity restaurant and Ealing Studios emerges as one of around six bidders for Dagenham site

Anti-smoking group finds streaming giant’s shows feature twice as many cigarettes and ‘tobacco incidents’ as traditional TV channels