New releases and coming soon on MUBI UK this week (30th December 2015)

Not getting your art-house fix from Netflix? Wish there were more indie films on Amazon Prime? Every week, we round up the new releases on MUBI, a subscription VOD service that hand-picks films from around the world.

As the … Read More

Sunny D commissioned by BBC Three following comedy pilot

Sunny D has been commissioned by the BBC for a full series after its pilot earlier this year.

The show was part of the 2015 BBC Three Comedy Feeds, a system that is not unlike Amazon’s pilot-driven approach to new … Read More

Netflix will help you lie to your kids this New Year’s Eve

Netflix will help you lie to your kids this New Year’s Eve with a series of countdown videos designed to trick your loved ones into thinking it’s midnight.

The streaming giant first began its annual deception last year, with a … Read More

What’s coming soon to Netflix UK in January 2016?

2016 is upon us and as 2015 draws to a close, taking with it a hoard of titles from Netflix UK, the streaming site has a whole heap of new arrivals to herald the new year. Over 120 titles will … Read More

Game of Thrones most downloaded TV of 2015, as major UK pirates jailed

Game of Thrones is once again the most pirated TV show of the year, according to TorrentFreak.

HBO’s fantasy epic was downloaded 14.4 million times in 2015 via BitTorrent, according to TorrentFreak, making it the most illegally watched series in … Read More

Interstellar and Furious 7 most pirated movies of 2015

Interstellar and Fast & Furious 7 were the most pirated movies of 2015, according to one company.

Piracy tracking firm Excipio monitored activity from the beginning of January through to Christmas Day, revealing that blockbusters were the most downloaded titles … Read More

ITV’s Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands gets early online premiere

ITV’s Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands is available to watch online before its TV broadcast for today only.

The new re-imagining of one of literature’s most epic tales stars Kieran Bew as the titular hero, with a cast that includes … Read More

Crunchyroll gets its own Christmas TV special

Crunchyroll had its own Christmas special this year on US TV – a rare feat for a VOD service.

The ad-supported site is one of the go-to places for legal streaming of anime in the UK, the US and other … Read More

Sky 1’s Fungus the Bogeyman: Behind the scenes

Imagine a world deep underground, where no human comfort is to be found… That’s where Sky 1 is taking families during the Christmas holidays with its new take on Fungus the Bogeyman, which begins tonight at 6pm.

The adaptation of … Read More

Orphan Black Season 4 teaser trailer released

A new teaser trailer has been released for Orphan Black Season 4.

The Canadian sci-fi series, created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, stars Tatiana Maslay as Sarah Manning, a con artist who discovers that she is the product of … Read More