This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (18th June)

Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of hand-picked classics.

Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, it’s Elena, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s … Read More

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (18th June 2016)

Not getting your art-house fix from Netflix? Wish there were more indie films on Amazon Prime Video? Every week, we round up the new releases on MUBI, the subscription VOD service that hand-picks new and old classics from around the … Read More

More than half of OITNB fans go back for repeat viewings

More than half of Orange Is the New Black fans go back for repeat viewings, new research from Netflix reveals.

The streaming giant is famously secretive about its viewing figures and user behaviours – earlier this month, the site announced … Read More

Eat the World: Amazon orders original cooking series

Amazon is serving up a new cooking docuseries for Prime Video subscribers.

Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on 2nd September. The show will follow Emeril Lagasse (Emeril Live, Top Chef) and some of … Read More

Skylanders, Spy Kids, Kong Season 2: Netflix unveils new original kids’ slate

Not content with just announcing further details of Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters, Netflix is continuing to place an emphasis on its original kids’ content with five new animated series.

“At Netflix, we invest in stories that our members will love … Read More

What’s leaving Sky and NOW TV in June and July 2016?

With summer here, who’s going to spend their time indoors watching things on the Internet? The answer: Anyone who has seen the list of films leaving NOW and Sky Movies in June and July 2016 and doesn’t want to miss … Read More

Sky Movies to relaunch as Sky Cinema

Sky Movies is relaunching this July as Sky Cinema.

Sky’s movie platform has been a long-established part of its paid TV service, but has found itself increasingly competing with newer SVOD rivals such as Netflix in recent years. Now, it’s … Read More

Netflix builds comedy line-up with David Brent and Handsome detective

Netflix continues to build its comedy line-up with two new acquisitions this week.

The first is Ricky Gervais’ David Brent movie. The spin-off from his sitcom The Office, called Life on the Road, sees a documentary crew catch up with … Read More

The Living and the Dead box set to premiere exclusively on BBC iPlayer

The Living and the Dead will premiere exclusively on BBC iPlayer on Friday 17th June.

All episodes of the eerie series, starring Colin Morgan, will be released at once as a box set for binge-viewing before the show begins its … Read More

BBC Three orders documentaries exploring US hate crimes

BBC Three has ordered a new string of documentaries investigating hate crimes in the USA.

At a time when accusations of race prejudice are dominating the US political debate, and the LGBT community is facing new state legislation aimed against … Read More