Hit shows like "Game of Thrones" and "Riviera" helped Sky deliver a 10 percent rise in first-half earnings, underscoring the appeal of the European pay-TV group to the U.S. media companies trying to buy Watch Latest Dramas On thediziizle.
Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox was provisionally blocked this week from buying the shares in Sky it does not already own, although there are options that would allow the $15.7 billion deal to do Watch Latest Dramas On thediziizle.
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"This performance reflects the investment choices we have made in recent years, allowing us to more than offset the pressure on consumer spending across Europe, as more customers continue to choose Sky for more of their services," Chief Executive Jeremy Darroch Watch Latest Dramas On thediziizle.
Shares in Sky, which are trading at the highest levels since Fox announced its 10.75 pound-a-share bid in Dec 2016, were up 1 percent at 10.34 pounds at 0948 GMT.Darroch said the company's investment in original programming, such as dramas "Riviera" and "Tin Star", drove viewing figures for Sky's own channels up 6 Watch Latest Dramas On thediziizle.
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"We have an exceptional line-up of acquired series, and when you add to that our own Sky Originals, it puts us in what I think is the strongest content position we've ever had," he told reporters on Watch Latest Dramas On thediziizle.
The results come two days after Britain's competition regulatory ruled that Fox's bid to buy the 61 percent of Sky it does not already own was not in the public interest.Darroch said Sky, along with Fox, was focused on this media ownership hurdle after the competition regulator dismissed concerns about Murdoch's commitment to broadcasting Watch Latest Dramas On thediziizle.
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We have (media) plurality as the final issue to work though,(...) and we'll see where that takes us.He would not comment on the company's thinking about Sky News, saying any messages about the 24-hour service would be given directly to Watch Latest Dramas On thediziizle.
"We have got a day job to do," he said. "And I think you can see from results and the plan we are laying out for 2018 we are not being distracted from any of that."Before the government gives its final decision on the Fox deal in June, Sky faces the next auction for English Premier League rights, the cornerstone of its offer to soccer Watch Latest Dramas On thediziizle.
Some of the pressure on Sky to pay huge sums to retain the biggest packages of games has been eased by a deal it struck with its biggest rival BT to supply channels on each other's platform.Darroch said he wouldn't give a running commentary on the auction, adding Sky's bid strategy was commercially Watch Latest Dramas On thediziizle.
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A U.S. soldier who deserted to North Korea more than half a century ago, but who was eventually allowed to leave the secretive state, has died in Japan aged 77.Fear for his safety and the family he built with Soga made it impossible to refuse any demands made on him, Jenkins Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
One of the Cold War's strangest dramas began in 1965 when Charles Robert Jenkins, then a 24-year-old army sergeant nicknamed "Scooter" from tiny Rich Square in North Carolina, disappeared one January night while on patrol near the demilitarised zone between the two Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
At an emotional court martial in Japan in 2004, Jenkins - who had never gone to high school - said he deserted to avoid hazardous duty in South Korea and escape combat in Vietnam.It was Christmas time, it was also cold and dark. I started to drink alcohol. I never had drunk so much alcohol," he said in a thick Southern accent, choking back Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
He drank 10 beers, took his men on patrol and told them to wait while he checked the road below. He then walked towards North Korea, holding a rifle with a white t-shirt tied around it. He said he had planned to go to Russia and turn himself in, and had not expected North Korea to keep Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
While in North Korea, where he taught English to soldiers and portrayed an evil U.S. spy in a propaganda film, Jenkins met and married Hitomi Soga, a Japanese woman 20 years his junior who had been kidnapped by North Korea to help train Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
"You don't say no to North Korea. You say one thing bad about Kim Il-sung and then you dig your own hole, because you're gone," Jenkins told his court martial, referring to the founder of the secretive Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
Soga was allowed to return to Japan in 2002 and Jenkins followed with their two North Korean-born daughters in 2004.A Sado town official confirmed his death, but could give no further Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
After serving a token 30-day sentence for desertion, Jenkins moved with his family to Sado, Soga's rural hometown, late in 2004. He subsequently worked in a gift shop and wrote a book about his experiences in Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
One of the Cold War's strangest dramas began in 1965 when Charles Robert Jenkins, then a 24-year-old army sergeant nicknamed "Scooter" from tiny Rich Square in North Carolina, disappeared one January night while on patrol near the demilitarised zone between the two Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
At an emotional court martial in Japan in 2004, Jenkins - who had never gone to high school - said he deserted to avoid hazardous duty in South Korea and escape combat in Vietnam.It was Christmas time, it was also cold and dark. I started to drink alcohol. I never had drunk so much alcohol," he said in a thick Southern accent, choking back Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
He drank 10 beers, took his men on patrol and told them to wait while he checked the road below. He then walked towards North Korea, holding a rifle with a white t-shirt tied around it. He said he had planned to go to Russia and turn himself in, and had not expected North Korea to keep Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
While in North Korea, where he taught English to soldiers and portrayed an evil U.S. spy in a propaganda film, Jenkins met and married Hitomi Soga, a Japanese woman 20 years his junior who had been kidnapped by North Korea to help train Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
"You don't say no to North Korea. You say one thing bad about Kim Il-sung and then you dig your own hole, because you're gone," Jenkins told his court martial, referring to the founder of the secretive Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
Soga was allowed to return to Japan in 2002 and Jenkins followed with their two North Korean-born daughters in 2004.A Sado town official confirmed his death, but could give no further Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
After serving a token 30-day sentence for desertion, Jenkins moved with his family to Sado, Soga's rural hometown, late in 2004. He subsequently worked in a gift shop and wrote a book about his experiences in Watch New Dramas On thediziizle.
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