Comcast has given its blessing for the launch of Sky Studios, a new serious-sounding pan-European original content production house touted to more than double Sky’s investment in original content over the next five years. Tapping into resources from new partner company NBCUniversal, Sky Studios plans to roll out productions for Sky channels, NBC broadcast and cable, plus Universal Pictures and other distribution outlets, hoping to build on the success of original Sky series Chernobyl – currently the world’s highest rated TV show of all time. In a deal we perceive as going against the grain, Chinese cable operator Shenzhen Topway Video Communications has tapped a US supplier to handle UHD services – deploying live UHD video processing technology from Harmonic.…