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BBC Three renews The Rap Game for second run
December 9, 2019 | David FarnorBBC Three has renewed The Rap Game for a second run.
The six-part competition series based on one of the USA’s most successful music formats and is produced by Naked Television and distributed by A+E Networks. It will be on … Read More
The Green Planet: BBC One announces new Attenborough series
December 9, 2019 | David FarnorSir David Attenborough is returning to BBC One to present The Green Planet.
The five-part series from BBC Studios Natural History Unit will be the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, inter-connected world, full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories … Read More
Amazon scores winning result with Premier League coverage
December 8, 2019 | David FarnorAmazon made TV history this week in the TV world by becoming the first streaming platform to show Premier League football live across the UK.
Premier League football has long been the exclusive territory of Sky and BT TV, with … Read More
Sky and Channel 5 ink British box set deal
December 8, 2019 | David FarnorChannel 5 and Sky have inked a new deal that will bring hundreds of hours of British box sets to Sky and NOW.
300 hours of Channel 5 shows will be available on-demand, including factual and entertainment programmes, as part … Read More
Star Trek: Discovery beams on to E4 this December
December 8, 2019 | David FarnorStar Trek: Discovery makes its UK TV debut this month, after E4 snapped up the linear rights to the show.
The new entry in the long-running sci-fi series first debuted on CBS All Access in the USA, 50 years after … Read More
What’s coming soon to STARZPLAY in December 2019?
December 7, 2019 | David FarnorWith Pennyworth debuting last month and DC Universe’s Doom Patrol arriving in January, the relatively new VOD service STARZPLAY is starting to step up its streaming game. This December, it drops three new series, including Sanctuary and Instinto, but the … Read More
BFI Player unveils top 10 Britain on Film videos
December 7, 2019 | David FarnorBFI Player has unveiled its most popular videos from its Britain on Film archives.
Britain on Film is one of the largest and most complex archival projects ever undertaken by the BFI. Preserving and transferring documentaries, home movies, news footage, … Read More
YouTube Rewind 2019 video still draws dislikes
December 7, 2019 | David FarnorIn 2018, YouTube broke records by releasing the most disliked video of YouTube: its annual YouTube Rewind video looking back at the year’s most memorable YouTube moments and creators. When that left out some of the site’s biggest stars, fans … Read More
Trailer: The Dead Lands comes to Shudder in January
December 7, 2019 | David FarnorShudder is heading to New Zealand in the new year for new supernatural series The Dead Lands.
The subscription streaming service for horror is teaming up with New Zealand’s TVNZ for the new co-production, which charts an adventure set in … Read More
The MUBI Weekly Digest | 7th December 2019
December 7, 2019 | David FarnorIt may not be Christmas yet, but MUBI is unwrapping all sorts of treats this week, with a veritable hamper-load of big cinema names, including Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Martin Scorsese and, the star on the tree, the new short … Read More