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Disney+ launching Paradise Official Podcast

Disney+ has announced that the Paradise Official Podcast hosted by series star Ryan Michelle Bathé, will premiere with a season 1 recap episode on February 16th on Disney+ in the UK. New podcast episodes drop weekly timed to each new show episode release. The nine-episode podcast will debut on Disney+ internationally, with audio episodes on […]

February 10, 2026

HBO Max confirms UK launch date and pricing

HBO Max, the SVoD service from Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), will go live in the UK and Ireland on March 26th, with subscription fees starting at £4.99 per month (for the Basic with Ads tier). Launch platforms for the service will include Sky and Prime Video. Already available in over 110 territories worldwide and reaching […]

February 9, 2026By Nik Roseveare

Barb: Nearly 61% of UK homes have Netflix

Barb, the audience measurement specialist, has released data from its Establishment Survey showing that 20.6 million UK homes (69.7 per cent) had access to at least one SVoD service in Q4 2025. This is slightly up from 20.5 million UK homes in Q3 2025. The service-level subscriptions data are as follows: Netflix: 18 million UK […]

February 5, 2026By Nik Roseveare

The Grand Tour returning to Prime Video

Prime Video has revealed the trio presenters who host the new season of The Grand Tour; celebrated trainspotter and transport enthusiast Francis Bourgeois will be joined by James Engelsman and Thomas Holland, the creators of celebrated YouTube channel Throttle House. The new presenters will front a six-part, globe-trotting series, tackling an array of motoring’s most pressing (and absurd) questions across some […]

February 5, 2026By Nik Roseveare

India: Goldmines Play on Prime Video

Prime Video has India has onboarded Goldmines Play as an add-on subscription. Goldmines Play, the streaming service from Goldmines Telefilms, the Indian content aggregator and television broadcaster, offers Prime Video customers across India a library of curated South Indian films dubbed in Hindi, along with evergreen Hindi classics. Customers in India can now subscribe to […]

February 5, 2026

Ireland: Disney+ selects Influent Media for ad sales

Influent Media will exclusively represent advertising sales for Disney+ in Ireland, coinciding with the launch of Disney+’s new Standard with Ads subscription tier in the country from March 3rd. The collaboration offers Irish advertisers the opportunity to reach audiences through pre-roll and mid-roll ad slots across Disney+’s content, which includes titles from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, […]

February 3, 2026

Netflix opens new Brazil office

Netflix has opened a new, larger office in São Paulo, Brazil as the streamer commemorates its 15th year in the country. Co-CEO Greg Peters attended the ceremony, bringing together names from the creative industry, government authorities, and business partners. At the event, Peters highlighted the strengthening of Netflix’s partnership with Brazil’s audiovisual sector and reaffirmed […]

January 28, 2026

Why don’t lawmakers like Netflix?

Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic have come out against the Netflix takeover of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). What did Netflix ever do to them? Well, in the case of the US, it’s more a question of what Netflix hasn’t done for them. Because it’s never been a network, it’s never had the wherewithal […]

January 27, 2026

Analysis: Streaming services pulling back on Nordic productions

Mediavision’s latest Nordic Content Analysis show that country-specific streaming services generate substantially higher impact per hour of available content than global players. The analysis compares total content supply (measured in runtime hours) with household subscription penetration across streaming services available in the Nordics. “Local streaming services outperform globals in terms of household penetration per hour […]

January 27, 2026

Daredevil Born Again Season 2 on Disney+ this March

Marvel Television has unveiled a new trailer for the second season of Daredevil: Born Again, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s intense street-level drama, which streams exclusively on Disney+ beginning March 25th. Across eight episodes, survival, resistance and redemption collide as the battle for the soul of New York begins. Created by Dario Scardapane, Chris Ord and […]

January 27, 2026