From fashion choices and travel plans to new hobbies, the movies we watch often shape more of our real lives than we realise. While films are primarily a form of escapism, their influence doesn’t always stay confined to the screen. Over the years, the entertainment industry has quietly steered everything from what we wear to […]

Netflix has announced Mating Season, a new adult-animated series from the same minds behind hit series Big Mouth. Mating Season will debut on Netflix in 2026 and is set in the animal world – starring a cast of bears, raccoons, deer, foxes and a host of other forest critters as they navigate love, relationships and […]

Netflix has announced the start of production of four new series in Mexico: Santita, Love 9 to 5 (Amor de oficina), I’m not afraid (No tengo miedo) and Corruptors (Los corruptores). Netflix has also confirmed the end of production of Lovesick (Mal de amores), the adaptation of the novel written by Ángeles Mastretta and directed […]

During the first quarter of 2025, the Swedish streaming market surpassed9 million paid subscriptions, according to research from Mediavision. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, this is an increase of over two million subscriptions, representing a growth of just over 30 per cent. This is a new record in the number of paid subscriptions. […]

Netflix is introducing a new subtitles option: original language that shows only the spoken dialogue. Until now, if viewers wanted subtitles in the original language, they’d turn on ‘Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC)’, which includes not only dialogue but also audio cues such as [phone buzzing] or [dramatic music swells], as […]

Kantar, the marketing data and analytics company, has revealed growing adoption of ad-supported streaming, strong competition between Prime Video and Apple TV+, and a breakout performance by Mubi, which recorded its best-ever quarter in the Entertainment on Demand (EoD) GB streaming market data. The study in Great Britain, from Kantar’s Worldpanel division, uncovered the following […]

Virgin Media O2 has released data that shows children are reaching for screens as soon as school finishes, with a clear spike in broadband traffic at 3:40pm every weekday. The surge is being driven by data-heavy TV streaming and families watching YouTube.   The weekday traffic jump comes from Virgin Media O2’s broadband network analysis, which […]

The Stranger Things animated series, currently in the works at Netflix, now has a title: Stranger Things: Tales From ’85. “We’ve always dreamed of an animated Stranger Things in the vein of the Saturday morning cartoons that we grew up loving, and to see this dream realisd has been absolutely thrilling,” Stranger Things creators Matt […]

WWE and Netflix have announced that WWE: Unreal, a new reality series, is coming to the streaming platform this summer. For the first time ever, the series will allow fans to step into the WWE writer’s room and outside the ring with some of the biggest WWE Superstars, where the drama is often just as […]