Greece

Police in Greece have dismantled a pirate network which provided illegal pay TV services in Greece. The operation followed a thorough investigation by the Patras Security Sub-Directorate. The Hellenic Police have made ten arrests, including the ring leader, deputy leader,...

Every Friday evening, hundreds of thousands of Greeks are glued to their TV sets watching the latest episode of "Fos sto Tounel," or "Light in the Tunnel," by investigative journalist Angeliki Nikolouli. Nikolouli has earned a reputation as a hard...

American TV producer John Hanick aka “Jack Hanick,” United States citizen, has been charged with violating the Crimea-related United States sanctions in connection with his years-long work in Greece, Bulgaria and Russia for the sanctioned Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev. According...

Victoria Hislop praised the generosity of the Greek people this week, saying their help made her new Greece-based television series possible.

The life of Saint Paisios, who is widely venerated around the world but especially in Greece and Russia, will be the subject of a new television series which is currently in production. Reportedly, filming is taking place in Konitsa, a...

Leading Greek TV channel Antenna (ANT1) dropped a Turkish series from its schedule  which was due to start screening in the summer, because of the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, an executive revealed on Tuesday. ANT1 Chief Content...

Former football player, coach and television commentator Nikos Alefantos passed away in Athens on Tuesday. He was 81 years of age. Alefantos had managed several clubs in the Greek Super League, including Olympiacos during 2004. He also had brief spells...

A hilarious incident was caught on camera on Monday as Greece's alternate minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis was speaking live on the BBC about how Greece is opening up to tourism. Varvitsiotis was explaining to the British audience that...

Kostas Voutsas, one of the best actors of his generation and an icon for Greek cinema and television, dies early on Wednesday. He was 88. Voutsas was rushed to the Attikon hospital on Friday, February 7, and admitted to the...

The MEGA Channel, Greece's first private television broadcaster, is set to return to the country's television airwaves in just a few days. On Monday, the channel released its first video on the internet, announcing its official return -- but without...

The media company ''Alter Ego,'' owned by Greek businessman Evangelos Marinakis, obtained the audiovisual archives and the logo of ''MEGA TV,'' Greece's historic first private television station, which ceased broadcasting in 2018. He also acquired several properties as a result...

A new article in UK's Financial Times newspaper last Friday described how the famous British TV series ''The Durrells'' has made Corfu an even more popular holiday destination, impacting its real-estate market over the last few years. "The Durrells", which...

Cameras from Crete's NEA television station recorded live the collapse of the historic bridge of Keritis in the island's Chania region on Monday afternoon. The island of Crete received huge amounts of rainfall in the past several days as part of...

A group of teachers was on ERT TV shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday, interrupting the main news broadcast. The newscaster suddenly announced, mid-report, that the broadcast was being interrupted for a commercial break. When the newscaster returned from the break viewers...

The terrorist group O.L.A. claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the explosion of a bomb outside of SKAI TV and Kathimerini newspaper headquarters on December 17, 2018. O.L.A., which is an abbreviation for a Greek phrase meaning ''Group of People's Fighters'', accused...