The Boys, arguably the biggest breakout TV series of 2019, will return to Amazon Prime Video with a second season on September 4th. The announcement was made in an online event featuring the cast, and hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt – who himself will join the cast in Season 2. The first three […]
The OTT landscape in 2020 is rapidly changing as a result of the growth of OTT services, content and devices, as well as the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on consumer behaviour, according to the 2020 State of OTT report from cross-platform measurement specialist Comscore. Using data from Comscore OTT Intelligence, the report offers insights […]
Netflix, CD Projekt Red, and Studio Trigger have announced an all new original anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners set in the same universe as the highly anticipated game, Cyberpunk 2077. The series will premiere in 2022. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed […]
Losing Alice, a neo-noir psychological thriller from creator, writer and director Sigal Avin, is set to join Apple’s slate of sweeping international original series in a new co-production deal. Apple has partnered with Israel’s Dori Media productions in association with HOT on Losing Alice, which recently hosted its premiere as part of the We Are […]
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, will be available on Vizio SmartCast TVs and LG Smart TVs when it launches in the US on July 15th. At that time, Peacock will offer a free tier featuring more than 7,500 hours of movies, shows, and timely live and on-demand programming across news, sports, reality and late night. […]
Netflix is one of the few fortunate companies, which has a service that is more meaningful to people who are forced to stay at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This was reflected on Twitter as well, where the influencer discussions related to ‘Netflix’ spiked more than 60 per cent
Amazon Rekognition Video is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyse videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Now, the service can automate four common media analysis tasks – detection of black frames, end credits, shot changes, and colour bars using fully managed, […]
The first episode of The Salisbury Poisonings received a seven-day consolidated figure of 10 million viewers (43.7 per cent share), making it the biggest new drama across all channels since 2018. All-screen +7 days data also reveals the episode has attracted 10.3 million viewers to date. The BBC One drama, written by Adam Patterson and […]
According to data from digital TV integrated software solutions provider Mirada, there has been an unprecedented rise in worldwide TV content consumption since the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown. Mirada’s findings, from its LogIQ data analytics platform, compare consumption across its customers’ pay-TV services before and during the coronavirus crisis in the territories in which […]
Americans using illegal piracy devices are much more likely to bring malware and hackers into the home, a Digital Citizens Alliance survey of 1,512 US has consumers found. In the poll conducted last month, one in four Americans who use piracy devices in the home say he or she had a malware problem in the […]