George Lopez, the US actor and comedian best-known for his ABC sitcom The George Lopez Show, returns to his stand-up roots making his Netflix original comedy special debut with We’ll Do It For Half. Lopez delivers a hilarious exploration of race, politics, and life lessons to be learned from the Latino community; especially the elders. […]
The UK’s solid growth in subscription video on demand (SVoD) adoption is set to continue over the next five years, according to the UK SVOD Forecast, May 2020 from data and analytics company GlobalData. The total number of SVoD subscriptions is expected to double between 2019 and the end of 2024, rising from 22.4 million to […]
Global online TV episode and movie revenues will reach $167 billion (€189bn) in 2025, double the $83 billion recorded in 2019, according to the latest Global OTT TV and Video Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. About $16 billion will be added in 2020. SVoD’s share of OTT revenues will stay at
The Covid-19 pandemic is creating deep disruption and uncertainty for investors and stakeholders in India’s media industry – probably more so than at any other time in the media sector’s modern history after the first phase of India’s economic liberalisation in 1991. Content creation & distribution, already disrupted and democratised by the growth of mobile […]
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s soon-to-launch streaming service, has unveiled original content that will be available to stream on July 15th 2020, when the service rolls out in the US. Peacock Premium customers can stream all first season episodes of Brave New World, The Capture, Intelligence and Lost Speedways; sports documentary In Deep with Ryan Lochte; and the […]
During March, as lockdown came in to effect, 63.2 per cent of SVoD consumers in France watched content on Netflix, with Spanish series Elite proving the most popular title. Second place, with 30.5 per cent having used the service, was Amazon Prime Video, followed by MyTF1 VoD attracting 19.2 per cent. According to the VoD-SVoD […]
Apple has agreed a multi-year first-look deal with renowned Hollywood director Ridley Scott and his Scott Free Productions company. Under the terms of the deal, Scott Free will create TV shows for the Apple TV+ streaming platform. The Scott Free production company has produced a number of successful TV series including Amazon’s Man in the […]
Superhero movie Ball and Chain – starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Emily Blunt – has been acquired by Netflix. Loosely based on the 90s comic book of the same name, the film follows a troubled married couple that receive superpowers that only work when they are together. The film is written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter […]
According to stream-tracking website Reelgood, animated content has seen a 22 per cent spike in total stream time during the lockdown period. Rick and Morty leads the charge for animated shows, along with the likes of Steven Universe Future and The Simpsons. Following on animation’s heels are family movies at 16.95 per cent, while cult […]
Vodafone Italia is now offering its TV customers access to Amazon’s streaming service, Prime Video. The Prime Video app has been added to the Vodafone TV Box, expanding the offer of services, which already includes Netflix, YouTube, Now TV, Chili and Infinity. New customers will get Prime for free for 6 months – including Amazon […]