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Netflix orders NFL Receiver series

Netflix has announced its newest sports series, Receiver, that follows four pass catchers during the NFL 2023-24 season: Davante Adams (Las Vegas Raiders), Justin Jefferson (Minnesota Vikings), George Kittle (San Francisco 49ers), Deebo Samuel (San Francisco 49ers) and Amon-Ra St. Brown (Detroit Lions). It’s been said that there’s no more difficult position in the NFL […]

March 20, 2024By Nik Roseveare

ESPN’s Monday Night Football sets viewing record

ESPN’s Monday Night Football presentation of San Francisco 49ers at Minnesota Vikings on October 23rd delivered more than 18.6 million viewers (ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, and NFL+) across the US, driving the television franchise to another weekly record during the 2023 season. The audience of 18,642,000 viewers is MNF’s best Week 7 audience in […]

October 25, 2023

Inventing Anna enters Netflix Most Popular list

In its second week of release, Vikings: Valhalla climbed its way to the top of the Netflix English TV list with 113.38 million hours viewed, making it the most viewed title in the week commencing February 28th. Shonda Rhimes’ Inventing Anna wasn’t too far behind with 77.59 million hours viewed. Three weeks into its release, […]

March 9, 2022

Amazon to acquire MGM for $8.45bn

Following earlier speculation, Amazon and MGM have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire MGM for a purchase price of $8.45 billion (€6.91bn). MGM has nearly a century of filmmaking history and Amazon says it will help preserve MGM’s heritage and catalogue of films, and provide customers with greater access to […]

May 26, 2021

Analyst: Piracy threat evolving during lockdown

Content piracy remains a persistent problem for rights holders and content providers to tackle, says Tony Maroulis, Principal Analyst at Ampere Analysis. In a blog post, Maroulis notes that incidence rates of certain forms of pirate service usage, such as torrents and locker sites, have declined over the past three years. “But a combination of […]

March 11, 2021By Colin Mann