The major global streaming platforms (Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Max/HBO Max) will invest $42 billon (€39.9bn) in original and acquired film and TV content this year, Ampere Analysis forecasts suggest. This marks a slower rate of growth of 7 per cent year-on-year, compared to the 24 per cent growth in streaming spending […]
Disney+ has announced that all eight episodes of Character 7’s upcoming UK original series Culprits will be available to stream on the platform from November 8th in the UK & Ireland. Culprits, a crime series from acclaimed executive producer Stephen Garrett (The Undoing, The Night Manager) and filmmaker J Blakeson (I Care A Lot, The […]
A new four-part documentary examining the notorious rivalry between British boxing legends Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno will launch exclusively on Prime Video in the UK and Ireland in 2024. The documentary, titled Four Kings, follows the meteoric rise of these four men from the same London neighbourhood who heralded a golden […]
Reptile, the new crime thriller starring Benicio Del Toro, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Silverstone, scaled its way to the top of Netflix’s English Films List in its debut week with 17.7 million views in the week commencing September 25th. Australian rom-com Love Is in the Air also had a strong debut, landing at #2 (11.7 […]
Starzplay, the MENA SVoD service, is bringing the summer blockbuster which crossed the billion-dollar mark- Barbie to its platform, straight from the theatres. Fans can tune into Starzplay and watch Greta Gerwig’s movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and get ready to immerse in the perfect-pink world of the Barbie Land. Barbie, which offers […]
The fourth and final season of Sex Education debuted atop Netflix’s English TV List with 12 million views in the week commencing September 18th. Docuseries Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal returned to the list with Season 2 debuting at #2 (7.6 million views) while Season 1 re-entered the list landing in the #10 spot (2.4 […]
Obligations on smart TVs, firesticks and set-top boxes to ensure public service broadcasters (PSBs) are prominent on their platforms should be strengthened, according to the UK House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee. In its report on the draft Media Bill, the Committee also wants to see current obligations on PSBs to provide programming […]
Love at First Sight, Netflix’s new romantic comedy starring Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy, topped the English Films List in its debut week with 14.1 million views in the week commencing September 11th. Adam Sandler’s family comedy You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah kept its four-week long run on the list […]
Disney and Pixar’s Elemental is the most watched movie premiere of the year on Disney+ and among its Top 10 movie premieres of all time, pulling 26.4 million views in its first five days of streaming. Directed by Peter Sohn, the original feature film is set in Element City, where Fire-, Water-, Earth-, and Air-residents […]
Following its acquisition of The Roald Dahl Story Company in September 2021, Netflix has announced it will release an animated adaptation of The Twits, written and directed by Phil Johnston, in 2025. The Twits marks the first screen adaptation based of the Roald Dahl book of the same name, which has been translated into 41 […]