What’s coming soon to Amazon Prime Video UK in November 2017?

If weekly episodes of Mr. Robot and Outlander aren’t enough to keep you entertained this autumn, Amazon’s November line-up should help, with the latest season of The Girlfriend Experience and the return of History’s brutal epic Vikings for a bigger-than-ever … Read More

BBC iPlayer launches dedicated portal for Irish language and Ulster-Scots programmes

BBC Northern Ireland’s Ulster-Scots and Irish Language television programmes are now being made more widely available to audiences around the UK on BBC iPlayer.

As of this week, a wide collection of programmes, all of which have been supported by … Read More

The Weekly MUBI Digest | 28th October

MUBI begins an exciting new partnership this weekend with none other than Nicolas Winding Refn. The Neon Demon and Drive director will be launching his own online platform in February next year, featuring restored classics and extra material, from essays … Read More

Netflix claims to have 300 million viewers worldwide

Earlier this year, Netflix smashed through the 100 million customer mark, as people around the world subscribe to the VOD service. The streaming giant’s actual audience, though, may be as much as three times that.

Speaking to BusinessInsider about Stranger … Read More

Amazon greenlights Ken Block’s The Gymkhana Files

Amazon has greenlit The Gymkhana Files, a new unscripted series featuring famed motorsports star and entrepreneur Ken Block.

The eight-episode series will chart the making of Gymkhana 10, the recently-announced tenth installment of his award-winning, record-breaking Gymkhana Film series. The … Read More

Black: Netflix snaps up South Korean series for simultaneous streaming

Netflix has snapped up the rights to Black, a South Korean series.

The fantasy thriller is written by Choi Ran and directed by Kim Hong-sun, with a cast that includes Song Seung-heon, Go Ara, Lee El and Kim Dong-jun.

Produced … Read More

Mudbound: New trailer for Netflix’s Oscar contender

“Violence is part and parcel of country life,” says Carey Mulligan in the new trailer for Mudbound.

Netflix’s latest original film, snapped up at Sundance this year, follows two families who work the same land in the Mississippi Delta but … Read More

Stranger Things after show to launch with Season 2

Stranger Things is getting its own after show, Netflix has revealed.

These days, you’re not a show if you don’t have your own after show – a programme about the programme that dissects the episode that has just broadcast. The … Read More

Michael Landes joins You Are Wanted Season 2

Michael Landers will co-star in Season 2 of Amazon’s You Are Wanted.

The streaming service’s first German original series is a tech thriller that follows Lukas Franke, a young hotel manager who finds himself the victim of a hacker. Created … Read More

Netflix raises $1.6bn extra funding for new content

Netflix is raising an additional $1.6 billion funding, as the streaming giant continues to step up its original content production.

The VOD service is selling almost $2 billion worth of notes to “qualified institutional buyers”. The proceeds from that wave … Read More