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LEGO launching iconic Friends Apartment Set

The LEGO Group has officially announced that they are launching a new LEGO Friends Apartments Set. The 2,048-piece set allows fans to recreate their favourite scenes with both Monica and Rachel’s, and Chandler and Joey’s New York apartments, plus the adjoining hallway. Over 27 years on from the TV sitcom’s first episode, the set is […]

May 11, 2021

Survey: 33% Brits use streaming to combat loneliness

Research by Uswitch, the comparison and switching service, has uncovered that a third (33 per cent) of people said streaming online TV helped them to feel less lonely over the past year, with 43 per cent saying they’ve binged an entire series in a single day. A quarter (26 per cent) said they now exclusively […]

February 23, 2021

Research: Kids flock to TikTok & Roblox in lockdown

A report from CHILDWISE, an independent market research agency specialising in children and young people, reveals exactly what children have been doing under lockdown and how it is affecting their lives – including how gaming and social media is helping them cope and how many hours they really spend online. The CHILDWISE Monitor Report 2021 […]

January 28, 2021

‘Halloween is Here’ on HBO Max

US streamer HBO Max has launched ‘Halloween Is Here’, a spotlight page bringing together a collection of scary and thrilling Halloween films and series. The ‘Halloween Is Here’ page will be available for the entire month of October, featuring a rotating roster of movies, series and Halloween-themed TV episodes, hand-picked by HBO Max’s editorial team […]

October 2, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Class Action Park draws big for HBO Max

The new HBO Max Original documentary Class Action Park has been the #1 movie on the US streaming platform since it debuted on August 27th. It is also the most popular title across the entire HBO Max catalogue among new subscribers, and ranks #3 among all subscribers behind the hit HBO series Lovecraft Country and […]

September 4, 2020

Friends is most-watched show on HBO Max

HBO Max has revealed that Friends is its number one performing show. Despite ending over 15 years ago, after 10 seasons, WarnerMedia paid $425 million for the rights to the popular sitcom in a 5 year deal, with that price tag already going the right way towards justifying itself. The Big Bang Theory clocked in […]

July 28, 2020

DC & HBO Max unveil digital comic series

Three new comic book superheroes feature in a new original digital comic book series titled To The Max, published by DC, in collaboration with HBO Max. To The Max feature stories about ordinary people achieving their maximum potential when they transform into extraordinary superheroes with the help of another new character, Max the dog. These […]

June 16, 2020

Analyst: HBO Max launch an “opportunity lost”

Following the launch of HBO Max in the US last week, analysts at MoffettNathanson have indicated they are less than impressed with the new SVoD platform. Michael Nathanson and Craig Moffett, in a conference call for clients, gave their reactions to the latest SVoD platfrom set to take on the likes of Netflix, Hulu and […]

June 1, 2020

HBO Max goes live in US

WarnerMedia’s new SVoD service, HBO Max, has gone live across the US with 10,000 hours of programming as the company looks to compete with the likes of Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+. The service already caught the attention of many whilst in development by acquiring the streaming rights to the likes of Friends, The Big […]

May 27, 2020