For many Games of Thrones fans, last Sunday’s epic battle between the armies of Jon Snow and Ramsay Bolton unfolded on a smartphone screen. According to data offered exclusively to USA Today, the show’s streaming audience is growing by leaps and bounds. The HBO Now and HBO Go digital platforms have averaged 2.5 million streams … Read more
YouTube has ordered a full season of Lionsgate’s drama series Step Up, based on a film franchise that took in $650 million globally. Step Up, which chronicles the lives of dancers in a performing arts school, is scheduled to start production later this year. When it debuts in 2017, it will be the first original scripted … Read more
Funimation has announced 14 “simulcast” titles that will run on its anime subscription service this summer, with a promise of more to come. Subtitled simulcasts air shortly after each show’s Japanese broadcast premiere. Several of the titles will also be dubbed into English, a feature Funimation claims as exclusive to its service. The episodes, in … Read more
U.S. broadband households watch an average of 3.8 hours of Internet video on TV screens per week — 20% of all video seen on these devices. This represents a tremendous opportunity for advertisers, according to a new report, Tracking Eyeballs: Video Analytics and Measurement, by industry research firm Park Associates. Park Associates forecasts total digital … Read more
Innovativ Media Group said it will launch a niche subscription streaming channel, HPLovecraft.TV, later this summer. The channel will also be embedded into The Lovecraft Ezine, a free online pub that’s “devoted to weird fiction, cosmic horror, and the Cthulhu Mythos.” The initial programming on HPLovecraft.TV will consist of an original 30-episode animated web series, … Read more
Non-Showtime subscribers can watch a free, TV-14 rated version of the season four premiere episode of its award-winning series Ray Donovan, starring Liev Schreiber, on YouTube and SHO.com. The start of the new season finds Ray, an in-demand professional fixer in Los Angeles, seeking redemption following his murder confession to a priest. The series also … Read more
Revry, an LGBT-focused subscription streaming service, has launched over Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku and smartphone apps. Priced at $4.99 per month or $54.99 annually, the service includes, movies, web series, podcasts and music. Initial “queerated”-content includes all five seasons (30 episodes) of Starting From…Now!, an Australian-produced lesbian web series that Revry says has already surpassed 24 million … Read more
Streaming video competitors Hulu and Netflix have announced content licensing deals that considerably expand their libraries of children’s programming. In an agreement with the Disney-ABC Television Group, Hulu acquired streaming rights for full prior seasons of kids’ titles from Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD. The deal will add more than 500 episodes and more … Read more
Rick Gervais has some news for fans of the original BBC series, The Office. Deadline reports that Netflix has secured the exclusive US and select international rights to premiere The Office spinoff movie, David Brent: Life on the Road, in 2017. Gervais first discussed the Netflix deal on the June 16 Opie with Jim Norton … Read more
In a deal with A+E Networks and Chute Ten Productions, Hulu has snagged exclusive subscription streaming rights to Roots, the four-episode remake of the groundbreaking 1977 television series. The show, to be available this fall, is a historical retelling of American slavery and one family’s determination to survive and persevere from one generation to the … Read more
