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News about video on-demand services, new releases on Netflix UK and online video video.
73 million households have watched The Crown
January 25, 2020 | David Farnor
73 million households have watched The Crown to date, according to Netflix statistics.
The streaming giant has traditionally been tight-lipped about its viewing figures, but as third party content increasingly departs the service and rivals launch their own competing platforms, … Read More
My World: Angelina Jolie teams up with BBC for global news series
January 25, 2020 | David Farnor
Angelina Jolie is teaming up with the BBC and Microsoft for My World, a weekly news series for young audiences.
The global show aims to explain the stories behind the news, providing facts and information for viewers aged 13 and … Read More
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12 returns to Netflix UK this February
January 25, 2020 | David Farnor
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12 has officially got a release date, with episodes set to arrive on Netflix UK this February.
Drag Race has become a veritable phenomenon in recent years, with RuPaul finally giving fans a UK version of … Read More
Amazon scraps People Just Do Nothing US remake
January 25, 2020 | David Farnor
Amazon is doing nothing with its plans to remake People Just Do Nothing for the US.
The series, which was announced in 2018, is based on the hit BBC Three mockumentary, which follows pirate radio station Kurupt FM.
The remake … Read More
The Runaway: Doctor Who VR special lands on YouTube
January 25, 2020 | David Farnor
More Doctor Who fans can now step inside a VR version of the TARDIS as the BBC’s hit virtual reality experience Doctor Who: The Runaway comes to the Doctor Who YouTube channel and launches internationally.
The VR experience stars Jodie … Read More
BBC renews Baptiste for Season 2
January 24, 2020 | David Farnor
BBC One has ordered a second season of crime drama Baptiste.
Tchéky Karyo (The Missing) will return as retired police investigator, Julien Baptiste, and will be joined by Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve, Fleabag) for a case which will take viewers … Read More
Apple TV+ inks overall deal with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
January 24, 2020 | David Farnor
Apple TV+ has inked an overall deal with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Louis-Dreyfus, who first made her mark on Saturday Night Live, has become a mainstay of US TV comedy, recently completing a seven-season run starring in HBO’s Veep.
The star and … Read More
Luke Evans to star in ITV’s The Pembrokeshire Murders
January 24, 2020 | David Farnor
Luke Evans is heading to ITV for new series The Pembrokeshire Murders.
The true crime drama, produced by World Productions, is a three-part mini-series depicting the pursuit of a cold-blooded serial killer.
Two unsolved double murders from the 1980s … Read More
Sundance doc Mucho Mucho Amor heads to Netflix
January 23, 2020 | David Farnor
Netflix has nabbed the rights to Mucho Mucho Amor, a new documentary premiering at Sundance this week.
The feature-length movie follows the life of legendary astrologer Walter Mercado. Every day for decades, Walter Mercado — the iconic, gender non-conforming astrologer — … Read More
Trailer: Alison Brie stars in Netflix’s Horse Girl
January 23, 2020 | David Farnor
Alison Brie is reuniting with Jeff Baena for Horse Girl, a new Netflix thriller.
The pair, which worked together on 2017’s The Little Hours, have co-written the psychological drama, which follows Sarah (Brie), an awkward woman with a fondness for … Read More
