Online streaming platform Netflix is set to launch its service in France in mid-September with a monthly subscription fee of €10, reports daily Le Figaro. Operating from Luxemburg, the platform, which has already met all the main French TV production and distribution companies, is reported to have signed up for a first original TV series […]
Amazon has revealed that since premiering on its streaming service in May 2013 (then LOVEFiLM), Michael Hirst’s epic Norse action drama Vikings has gone on to become the most watched TV show of all time on Prime Instant Video in the UK. With its second season premiering in February to 3.6 million viewers in the […]
Overall TV and video entertainment spend in France is expected to reach €7.9 billion by 2018, averaging 1 per cent annual growth between 2014 and 2018, according to research from Futuresource Consulting. “In 2013 consumer spend on video in France – which includes subscription pay-TV, box office, packaged home video, pay-TV VoD and paid-for online […]
Telecom Italia is the changing the name of its TV on-demand service from Cubovision to TIMvision and adding new and exclusive content. The rebranded service, initially available on smartphones and tablets and later on Smart TVs, PCs and dedicated decoders, will include new sports events, movies and TV series, in addition to the existing offer […]
RTVE’s VoD service ‘red button’ is increasing in popularity in Spain, with 700,000 homes already using it since its launch eight months ago. The service distributes over 90,000 hours of content on RTVE a la Carte, offering the main news and current affairs with access to news programmes, sports, and children programming, along with the […]
People Just Do Nothing, a series about pirate radio station Kurupt FM and its crew, which initially debuted on BBC iPlayer as a pilot, will premiere in full on the service from May 13th ahead of its transmission on BBC Three in September. The writers/performers/creators are a group of friends who had never done anything […]
Netflix has revealed details of its previously announced price hike, with new UK customers set to pay an extra £1 per month, with prices in Europe increasing by €1 and US prices increasing by $1. Existing customers will pay nothing extra for 24 months. In an email sent to UK Netflix customers, the online streaming […]
Sky News has launched its catch-up TV service. The service, which sits on Sky’s On Demand platform, is available from launch to 5 million Sky customers with a connected Sky+HD set-top box. It will allow customers to get up to speed with the best of Sky News content by choosing the stories they want to […]
Amazon and NBCUniversal have finalised a UK instant video subscription deal that will make hundreds of episodes of popular US TV series available on Prime Instant Video. As part of its continued investment in content for its members, Amazon is bringing multiple seasons of hit NBCUniversal shows such as Suits, Grimm and Parks and Recreation […]
On-demand views of US drama series 24 have increased by 37 per cent on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the past month ahead of the show returning on Sky this week with 24: Live Another Day. The research, carried out by Prime Instant Video – the UK’s largest movie and TV streaming service – to […]