Sky launches the challenge, 125 titles in 2021

 The global challenge of streaming in various forms continues with no holds barred. Netflix with over 200 million subscribers has announced 70 new titles for 2021. And pay TV operator Comcast Sky replies with a list of films and TV of 125 titles for 2021, a road map able to compete with rivals and prepare for a certain productive autonomy after the output deal supply contract with Hbo (the best TV productions in general, like the latest The Undoing by Susanne Bier with Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman), although renewed at the end of 2019 for more years, it could gradually wane as WarnerMedia moves towards its HBO Max platform. The contract has "several years to go," said Zai Bennett, chief executive of content at Sky UK, in a lengthy interview with Variety. on the group's new projects, "but we have to make our business future-proof". That is original content, like that Gangs of London which was the most followed series (binged show to be precise) of 2020. The 125 films and TV shows represent a 50% increase from 2020 and include 30 Sky Original films along with 30 original documentaries. And there is the strategic intention in this pandemic period to launch two new original films every month, with the aim of one new feature film a week in 2022 (Netflix announced one a week ago, ed). Among the titles anticipated to Variety: "A Boy Called Christmas", "Extinct", "Monster Family 2", "Save The Cinema", "Creation Stories", "Six Minutes to Midnight", "The Glorias", "Jolt" , "SAS: Red Notice", "The Comeback Trail", Breaking News In Yuba County "and" Antebellum ". Even the claim is ready:" a movie offer you can't find anywhere else ". How" This Sceptred Isle ", the series announced Saturday by Sky in London starring Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson, five episodes on the" prime minister, government and the country facing the first wave of the global pandemic ", Sky will also launch new original documentaries , including "Liverpool Narcos", an exploration of how Liverpool became the epicenter of a drug boom that would change Britain forever; "Chernobyl 86", a revealing look at the nuclear thermoreactor disaster; "Positive" , a story of Britain's 40-year struggle against HIV / AIDS More new TV originals inc ludono "Wolfe," played by Babou Ceesay ("Guerilla", "Rogue One"); "The Midwich Cuckoos", a modern adaptation of David Farr's classic John Wyndham science fiction novel; and "Extinction", an action thriller about a man who keeps reliving the same day over and over, written by Joe Barton with Paapa Essiedu, Tom Burke, Anjli Mohindra and Caroline Quentin. All content will also land on Sky Now TV's SVOD service.