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Little Dot Studios launches FBI Files Deutschland Podcast

Little Dot Studios, a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network, has expanded its partnership with New Dominion Pictures to launch the official FBI Files Deutschland podcast. Launching today, the new weekly German-language series is hosted by renowned voice-over artist and TV host Stephan Bultmann and is produced by the Little Dot […]

July 15, 2025

FBI seizes video game piracy websites

The FBI’s Atlanta Field Office has announced the seizure of several online criminal marketplaces providing pirated versions of popular video games. In addition to the seizure, the FBI has dismantled the infrastructure of these websites. For more than four years, the websites contained pirated copies of highly anticipated video games days or weeks before their […]

July 14, 2025By Colin Mann

J.K. Simmons to star in MGM+ series The Westies

MGM+ has announced that Academy Award-winning actor J.K. Simmons  will star in its upcoming Original crime drama series The Westies, created by acclaimed showrunner and executive producer Chris Brancato. Set in early 1980s New York, the series explores the brutal rise of the Irish-American gang that ruled Hell’s Kitchen at the time. Simmons has appeared […]

May 29, 2025

MGM+ greenlights crime drama The Westies

MGM+, the linear channel and streaming service, has ordered the original crime drama series The Westies from creator and executive producer Chris Brancato, perhaps best known for creating the hit series Narcos. Under his overall television deal with MGM+, Brancato created the series with Michael Panes and will also executive produce and showrun. The eight-episode […]

March 18, 2025

Satellite electrical propulsion to grow

It isn’t so very long ago that electrical propulsion for satellites was a very new kid on the block. Boeing’s Xenon-Ion Propulsion System (XIPS) was introduced on the (then) Hughes 702 versions its high-power versions of its popular HS-702 craft and used for final orbital insertion. December 1999 saw the launch of an HS-702 with […]

May 10, 2023

Criminal Minds: Evolution set to debut on Disney+

Disney+ has announced that the crime-procedural drama series “Criminal Minds: Evolution” will premiere with two episodes on November 25th, exclusively on Disney+.  Following the premiere, new episodes will stream weekly exclusively on Disney+, with a mid-season finale on December 16th. The season will then return on January 13th with all-new episodes dropping weekly through the […]

November 23, 2022

Netflix lands Dark Wire

Netflix has acquired the feature rights for Joseph Cox’s upcoming book Dark Wire. Hollywood star Jason Bateman (Ozark, Arrested Development) is set to direct the movie, and Matthew Orton (Operation Finale) is writing the screenplay. Dark Wire covers the unbelievable true story of how the FBI launched a fake telecom company and became the number […]

September 30, 2022By Nik Roseveare

FBI warns of further satellite cyber attacks

A report from the FBI and the USA’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency says more attempts similar to the recent hacking of Viasat’s KA-SAT communications satellite are likely. The report says that the current problems surrounding Russia means that satellite operators and service companies must examine their critical infrastructure and review and implement much stronger […]

March 21, 2022By Chris Forrester

The World’s Biggest Druglord – Tse Chi Lop on discovery+

Building on its growing slate of Asia Pacific Originals, Discovery has announced exclusive new special, The World’s Biggest Druglord – Tse Chi Lop, documenting the rise and capture of a criminal mastermind and one of the world’s most wanted fugitives for the very first time. The documentary premieres globally on November 14th on discovery+, as […]

October 25, 2021

Former Netflix staff charged for insider trading

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged three former Netflix software engineers over an alleged insider trading ring that made $3 million (€2.5m). The SEC alleges confidential Netflix subscriber growth data was used in the scheme. The information was allegedly used to trade the streaming service’s shares ahead of its earnings reports. The […]

August 19, 2021