Posts By David Farnor
Showcase at Home: Showcase Cinemas launches new streaming service
July 10, 2020 | David FarnorShowcase Cinemas is going online with a new streaming service, Showcase at Home.
The platform, now live in the UK, is a transactional VOD service that presents films available to buy and rent. Titles cost £7.99 to buy or £3.49 … Read More
Netflix’s Eurovision: The full list of cameos
July 9, 2020 | David FarnorIt’s been a couple of weeks since Netflix dropped Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga online, and several more weeks since the actual Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was sadly cancelled. But the streamer’s unlikely comedy about the annual … Read More
Comic-Con at Home: The full TV and movie panel line-up
July 9, 2020 | David FarnorSan Diego Comic-Con will be going digital this July, bringing its range of panels, presentations and discussions from publishers, studios, and more to living rooms around the world. For the first time, the event will be free to all to … Read More
Netflix’s The Last Kingdom to end with Season 5
July 9, 2020 | David FarnorNetflix’s The Last Kingdom will end with Season 5.
Adapted by BAFTA-nominated and RTS award-winning writer Stephen Butchard from Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series of novels, the historical series is set in the year 872, when many of the separate kingdoms … Read More
Channel 4 orders Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared series
July 9, 2020 | David FarnorChannel 4 has ordered a new series based on the YouTube show Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared.
The cult hit has been viewed over a quarter of a billion times. Part-educational programming, part-existential nightmare, the mixed-media trip moves from kids-show … Read More
Sky and Sony ink new long-term deal
July 9, 2020 | David FarnorSky and Sony Pictures Television have extended their partnership with a new long-term deal that applies to the UK and Ireland, Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
The deal means that Sky Cinema will have the first pay window rights … Read More
Trailer: The Young Offenders return for Season 3 this July
July 9, 2020 | David Farnor“Try not to do anything illegal for the next 24 hours.” “How are we supposed to know what’s illegal?” That’s the sound of BBC Three’s The Young Offenders returning for a third season – and the new trailer promises it … Read More
Royal Albert Hall streams National Ballet’s Cinderella
July 8, 2020 | David FarnorThe Royal Albert Hall will stream the English National Ballet’s production of Cinderella for free tonight.
The inventive production, based on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, combined extravagant sets and costumes, surprising theatrical tricks and lively choreography – all … Read More
Jonathan Glazer’s Strasbourg 1518 to premiere on BBC Two
July 8, 2020 | David FarnorJonathan Glazer’s latest film, Strasbourg 1518, will premiere on BBC Two this month.
Inspired by a powerful involuntary mania which took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over 500 years ago, Strasbourg 1518 is a collaboration in … Read More
What’s coming soon to Quibi in July 2020?
July 7, 2020 | David FarnorThis spring saw the surprise launch of Quibi in the UK. Short for “Quick Bites”, the streaming platform delivers programmes and films in short chunks of 5 to 10 minutes each, designed to be watched on mobile phones on the … Read More