At the centre of the dispute is Pasapalabra, the Spanish adaptation of The Alphabet Game, a UK-created format originally developed for the BBC in the 1990s. Rights to the format ultimately became part of ITV’s catalogue following a succession of corporate acquisitions involving Action Time and Granada.
The Madrid court’s latest judgment reinforces an earlier 2019 Spanish Supreme Court ruling which forced Telecinco, Mediaset’s Spanish channel, to stop airing Pasapalabra after determining that the broadcaster had breached contractual agreements with ITV.
The litigation stretches back more than 15 years and centres on competing claims over both the Pasapalabra format and El Rosco, the high-profile final round that became the show’s signature element in Spain.
Greece’s national broadcaster ERT has rebranded its international channel starting 7 May 2026. ERT Cosmos, replaces ERT World, which was the name of the channel from 2008 to 2026. Before that, it was known as ERT Sat from 1996 to 2008.
The channel features programs from the national broadcaster’s three Greek channels: ERT1, ERT2, ERT3.
It’s actually 7 May.
Yeah. Sorry about that. It was my mistake. I saw a story about the changeover written on the day after and I thought it was the day before.
ERT Cosmos: ERT’s international channel in a new era
https://hephaestuswien.com/en/ert-cosmos/
Here are some of their new idents:
Hong Kong broadcaster TVB recently announced a revamp of the primetime schedule for its main channel Jade. For the past 40 years the line-up had been one sitcom in the early evening (usually at 8pm), followed by two dramas shown back-to-back. It will change from next Monday (June 15) when the second drama slot is bumped to make way for infotainment shows which have been promoted from the current 10.30pm timeslot.
The first infotainment show to take the 9.30pm slot will be 10-part documentary series Pilgrimage of History, hosted by Tony Hung and Priscilla Wong.
The new schedule
7.30pm Scoop (current affairs show)
8pm Sitcom (currently Come Home Love: Lo and Behold - scheduled to conclude in July)
8.30pm Drama (produced in-house by TVB or co-production with TVB)
9.30pm Infotainment
10.30pm Drama (acquisitions, usually Chinese mainland shows)
11pm Late News
Worthy to note that this show uses gen AI to ‘recreate’ and insert the hosts into historical scenes for ‘immersion’. I put them in quotes because, you know, how effective genAI currently works in those domains…
And they’re not the only show with AI too - over the last two years, they’ve been making AI animation that are dubbed by their human talents on Plus (and soon to air on Jade too), while another animation replaced the firepiece sequence on Pearl after closing down.
Given Hong Kong’s close proximity to the origins of micro dramas, TVB also made a ton of those on Plus. They can be across different genres (teen love, thriller, revenge…), played by artificial faces with their own ‘names’ and all, despite TVB being probably the one broadcaster that’s capable of using fresh young talents in them instead.
Also…
More like a TVB e-news promo plus ‘nastiest people spectacle’ show if I’m being honest… Its rise to pseudo-‘current affairs’ category was in relation to other more trusted news tip options (be they TV or print) disappearing in early 2020s.
Fun fact: Three of the female hosts are also to be remade in AI, KPDH style, to ‘recreate’ the show’s ‘signature’ cases. Top-rated programming, I’m sure!
Come Home Love has dragged on far too long and should’ve axed a few years ago - and that’s coming from a family that used to be loyal viewers of the 8pm slot before 2019!
I saw their mid-year upfront presentation (repackaged as a half-hour TV show) last Saturday, and the drama section is honestly boring - business elites, revenge, romantic affair, ladies slapping each other’s faces and/or commiting murder… There was also a teaser to a legal drama sequel that used AI to generate the leading actors’ faces… go figure.
To be frank, if these are the things they’re putting out, I doubt the new timeslots will have much effect in moving the ratings needle.
VTV6 RELAUNCHED
Vietnam Television relaunched its 6th channel on the day of June 8, 2026, as an all-sports channel. Sporting content was previously planned for this channel back in the late 2000s, before it was first launched as a teen-oriented channel. The channel would then scale back its original programming following various periods of changes within Vietnam Television, and once spent around daytime and special slots to broadcast sports content during its later years of its first incarnation.
The all-new VTV6 is now embarking on its broadcast at around 9:40 a.m., Hanoian time (12:40 a.m. AEST), following a launch ceremony, and would launch its first programs on public OTTs at 10:00 a.m. (1:00 p.m. AEST)
(*) Footage taken from VTV6’s feed on VTVgo, Vietnam Television’s main digital platform
VTV6’s first moments under its second incarnation. Recorded by mSystem YouTube channel:
Apparently still has enough cash for all 104 matches.
Odd name…Dr Pig. 
He would’ve been bullied mercilessly when he was a kid. Poor guy.