HBO Max – the WarnerMedia streaming platform that launched in the US last week — has acquired the exclusive US SVoD rights to The Big Bang Theory prequel series Young Sheldon in a deal with Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution. HBO Max is also the streaming home of the entire library of The Big Bang […]
Comcast and WarnerMedia have agreed a deal to bring freshly-launched D2C service HBO Max to Xfinity X1 and Flex customers. As part of the deal, existing Xfinity HBO customers will have access to HBO Max at no additional cost via the HBO Max app and website while the companies work to quickly bring the HBO […]
Netflix is currently available in over 190 countries, but the shows and movies on the service are different in every country. VPN provider Surfshack used Flixwatch, the largest Netflix database site with libraries for 70 countries, to find out what TV shows and movies are available in each country. They then collected the IMDb rating, […]
World War II drama Greyhound, starring and written by Tom Hanks, is set to premiere on the Apple TV+ streaming platform. The movie was originally scheduled for a June 21st premiere by Sony Pictures, but with cinemas still shuttered around the globe, Apple has reportedly paid Sony $70 million for 15 years of streaming rights […]
Netlfix has announced it is producing a series based on the international bestselling novel Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan. Netflix said the production will be an “insightful and suspenseful series” about a sexual consent scandal amongst British privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake. It will consist of 6 x […]
HBO Max has announced that it will exclusively premiere Zack Snyder’s director’s cut of the Warner Bros Pictures/DC 2017 movie Justice League. Snyder surprised fans with the news during a live online commentary of his film Man of Steel with Henry Cavill on May 20th. #ReleaseTheSnyderCut first became a passionate rallying social media cry among fans […]
Television analytics platform TV Time has conducted a survey to gauge awareness and interest to subscribe to HBO Max prior to launch and what content appeals most to viewers, with Millennials expressing the highest level of intent to subscribe, and Older Gen X and Millennial audience segments most interested in HBO titles and Max Originals […]
On March 20th, video sharing site Dailymotion made the decision to reduce the bandwidth required to broadcast videos on its platform to address the risk of network saturation. The end of the confinement period in France marks the return to normal for the platform, which will again broadcast its videos in UHD definition, Full HD […]
The BBC’s Annual Plan reveals that people across the UK have turned to the broadcaster in record numbers as a source of news, entertainment and companionship during the Covid-19 pandemic. New figures show that as many as 94 per cent of the UK adult population – and 86 per cent of younger people – have […]
In a major adjustment to its launch ‘philosophy’, Apple is said to be seeking to buy in older movies and TV shows to bulk a content library for its Apple TV+ streaming platform that looks very thin compared to rivals. Apple had made much of relying on original shows, but sluggish sign-ups mean a rethink, […]