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Netflix
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Netflix ‘not set for Comcast set top boxes’
A top Comcast executive has downplayed media reports the US cable company is planning to…
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Sky’s NOW TV adds premium channel brands
UK satellite TV provider BSkyB has bolstered its pay-monthly OTT service NOW TV by adding…
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Halloween treat as Netflix buys Dexter
Netflix has acquired all eight seasons of the recently ended Showtime serial killer drama Dexter…
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HBO on basic cable for first time
HBO is being offered as part of a basic tier channel package in the US…
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Carl Icahn sells Netflix shares for bumper $819m
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has sold more than half of his shares in streaming site…
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Netflix doubling spend on originals, on track for 10 million intn’l subs
Netflix says it will top the ten million international subscriber mark this year and has…
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Viewpoint: In VOD we trust – how pay TV can combat OTT
In television, as with many other things in life, you have to keep the faith….
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‘Netflix to lead new wave of UK production M&A’
Netflix is among the emerging players set to lead a new wave of consolidation in…
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Exclusive Netflix-Disney deal in the Netherlands
Netflix has agreed an deal with Disney for the studio’s film titles. The agreement gives…
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Nancy Tellem: Lighting up the Xbox
Nancy Tellem is entertainment and digital media president at technology, software and hardware giant Microsoft…
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Free Netflix for UK new Nokia customers
Netflix is teaming up with Nokia to give UK buyers of the phone maker’s latest…
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Katzenberg eyes extended DreamWorks-Netflix deal
DreamWorks cofounder and CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said that he hopes the programming deal his studio…
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Netflix sued in the Netherlands
Kudelski Group-owned digital TV solutions firm OpenTV has filed a lawsuit against Netflix in the…
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Netflix cuts cable deal with Com Hem
Swedish cable operator Com Hem will offer Netflix as part of its TiVo offering when…
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Nielsen says almost 40% of US consumers use Netflix
US research and ratings firm Nielsen says that 38% of Americans now “use or subscribe…
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Tesco’s Blinkbox takes on Lovefilm, Netlflix in autumn offensive
Blinkbox is taking on Netflix and Lovefilm with its biggest ever marketing campaign. The UK…
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SVOD and catch-up accelerate US, UK linear viewing decline
The ubiquity of on-demand and catch-up services continues to impact linear TV viewing, according to…
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DreamWorks buys Chapman TV library
DreamWorks has bought the Chapman Entertainment library giving it kids series Fifi and the Flowertots,…
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French drama Spiral to be remade in the US
LA-based Endemol Studios, the studio behind Hell on Wheels, is to remake French crime drama…
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Netflix goes live in the Netherlands
Netflix went live today in the Netherlands, offering streamed access to its catalogue of movies…
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Bloomberg original Hank to launch on Netflix
Bloomberg Businessweek Films’ debut documentary, Hank: Five Years From the Brink, will premiere on Netflix…
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Virgin Media signs Netflix deal
Virgin Media has signed a deal to add over-the-top video service Netflix to its TiVo…
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News brief: Netflix, Amazon drive Cinedigm revenue growth
LA-based content aggregator Cinedigm has seen revenue from its television programming library grow more than…
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Netflix should go beyond 50 million subs mark, say analysts
Netflix’s potential US market could extend well beyond the 40 or 50 million households that…
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Netflix adds first original doc series
New doc series Russell Peters Vs. the World will be Netflix’s first original documentary. Stand…
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Best of British SVOD service Cirkus cuts Nordic deal
UK content-based VOD service Cirkus has inked a deal with Nordic pay TV service Boxer,…
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Aziz Ansari inks Netflix deal
Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari has agreed a deal with Netflix and the streaming service…
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International media coming to Cambridge
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries, ABC boss Paul Lee and Microsoft Studios chief Nancy Tellem…
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Kevin Spacey: $100m House of Cards ‘more cost effective than traditonal TV’
Actor Kevin Spacey has attacked the cost of the pilot season model and claimed it…
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Netflix reaches up to 2m in the UK
Analysts estimate that up to two million people in the UK are streaming content via…