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SVOD
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Netflix gives Rainbow’s Winx Club the live-action treatment
Netflix is bringing Rainbow Group’s popular Italian animated franchise Winx Club to its members yet…
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Amazon welcomes ABC’s American Idol back to the UK
Amazon Prime Video UK has secured exclusive rights to ABC’s rebooted American Idol. The UK…
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Disney creates unified streaming & int’l unit
The Walt Disney Company has restructured to create a worldwide division that will house international…
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Eddy Cue: Apple won’t buy Netflix or Disney
Consumer tech giant Apple will not buy Netflix or The Walt Disney Company, according to…
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US pay TV pricing out subscribers – TiVo
Price continues to drive North American pay TV subscribers to cut their services, while more…
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Bingeing grows up – study highlights over-55s SVOD uptake
Although over-55s remain staunch supporters of linear television, a new study shows they are now…
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INTV: Keshet Int’l launches $55m high-end drama fund
Keshet International’s big week is continuing with the launch of a US$55 million global content…
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Hulu lands Reese Witherspoon & Kerry Washington drama
Hulu has beat the competition to give a straight-to-series order to Reese Witherspoon (pictured) and…
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Bob’s Burgers creator making first Apple adult toon
Apple is adding a new animated comedy by Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard to its…
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BBC’s Bulford: global nets won’t replace threatened British content
British content is under threat, as budgets get cut, with global players highly unlikely to…
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Jon Favreau creating Star Wars drama for Disney SVOD service
Producer-writer Jon Favreau is writing and executive producing a live-action Star Wars series for Disney’s…
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SVOD players making most of Euro on-demand revenues – study
Subscription video-on-demand is driving growth in the European pay on-demand market, according to a report…
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Barack Obama in talks to produce Netflix shows
Former President Barack Obama is set to produce a series of high-profile series for SVOD…
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TBI Weekly: The OTT ‘arms race’ heats up
This week, it seems that almost every major TV player is claiming their stake in…
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Netflix to bring in $15bn in sub fees for 2018, says CEO
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has stated that Netflix is set to earn around $15bn (£10.8bn)…
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RTL to increase spend on VOD services
RTL Group will increase investment in its on-demand services in the territories where it has…
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CBS to ramp up originals as it bids to top OTT ‘arms race’
CBS COO Joseph Ianniello revealed that the company will increase investment in digital originals to…
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Amazon gets Undone with toon from BoJack Horseman team
Amazon Studios has given the greenlight to a half-hour animated series from the team behind…
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Netflix purchases fifth Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker will pen a fifth season of dystopian technology series Black Mirror for SVOD…
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Amazon scores La Liga football docu-series
Amazon Prime Video has greenlit Six Dreams, a sports docu-series that follows six individuals throughout…
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SVOD net Acorn cops British comedy No Offence
RLJ Entertainment’s Acorn TV has acquired exclusive digital rights in North America for the first…
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BBC boss fears threat of digital giants
BBC director general Tony Hall is again attacking the threat of the US-based digital companies…
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Netflix orders talk show from Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj
Netflix is bringing in yet another talk show, this time with The Daily Show’s Hasan…
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Oath distanced from Morning Breath after Instagram star’s tweets
Verizon’s Oath has cancelled The Morning Breath, a celebrity talk show aimed at millennials, after…
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Netflix strikes Sky deal across Europe
Netflix will be bundled into a new Sky pay TV subscription pack in Europe. Customers…
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Viacom plans direct-to-consumer streaming service
Viacom has revealed plans to launch a direct-to-consumer streaming service later this year. Speaking at…
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Disney shutters Movies Anywhere service
The Walt Disney Company is closing its Disney Movies Anywhere services, though customers can transfer…
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Global SVOD subs will hit 450 million in four years
The rise of subscription on-demand services seems unstoppable. The number of households worldwide that pay…
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Apple orders thriller drama from Sixth Sense director
Apple has ordered its latest original by Sixth Sense writer and director M. Night Shyamalan….
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Britbox hits 250,000 US subs & eyes int’l expansion
Britbox, the SVOD service from BBC Worldwide, ITV and AMC Networks, claims to have gained…