Trailer: Ben Whishaw in Lilting available to watch online in UK on same day as cinemas

Ben Whishaw fans will be pleased to hear that Lilting will be available to watch online in the UK on the same day as it is released in cinemas.

Set in contemporary London and starring Ben Whishaw, Lilting tells the … Read More

Orange Is the New Black leads 2014 Emmy nominations for comedy

Orange Is the New Black leads the comedy category in the 2014 Emmy nominations.

Jeji Kohan’s Netflix Original prison series has received 12 nominations in this year’s award race, including Best Comedy Series and three separate actress awards. Taylor Schilling … Read More

Roku more popular than Apple TV

Roku is more popular than Apple TV, acccording to a new report from Parks Associates.

The study (The Evolving Market For Streaming Media Devices) shows that among US broadband households with a streaming media player, 44 per cent use a … Read More

UKTV’s Watch sinks teeth into Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain for UK broadcast

UKTV has sinked its teeeth into Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain. The series’ UK broadcast will be on Watch this autumn.

The sci-fi horror is based on the best-selling vampire novel trilogy co-written by the Pan’s Labyrinth director and author … Read More

Digital video spending rises one-third in 2014

Digital video spending climbed by 33 per cent in the first half of 2014.

New figures from the British Video Association show that in the first six months of this year, consumer expenditure on digital video fuelled a rise in … Read More

TheHorrorShow.tv moves into DVD as well as VOD distribution

TheHorrorShow.tv is moving into DVD distribution.

The streaming site, which specialises in horror and genre titles, launched last year in the UK. While the industry increasingly moves towards digital releasing, though, the company has taken a step in the other … Read More

Why Netflix and Amazon are fighting over your kids

From fast food to toys, kids have always been a big target market in this commercial age. Film is no exception: 12A certificate movies accounted for 51.8 per cent of gross UK box office last year in the cinema, as … Read More

Infographic: This happens on YouTube every minute

2.7 videos are viewed on YouTube every minute. That’s a lot of videos. But what happens during those 60 seconds? This infographic from YouTube Downloader gives you an idea…

(Hat tip to Broadband TV News)

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Netflix is hiring a new Tagger for the UK and Ireland

Netflix is hiring a new Tagger for the UK and Ireland.

The Internet TV giant boasts a unique – and occasionally innacurate – recommendation system, which produces lists of sub-genre as diverse as Funny Romantic Comedies to Critically-Acclaimed-Emotional-Underdog-movies.

“As a … Read More

blinkbox offers 50 per cent off LEGOLAND tickets to those who buy The LEGO Movie

The LEGO Movie is released today for digital download – and blinkbox is offering 50 per cent off LEGOLAND tickets to anyone who buys it.

Tesco is no stranger to promotions to support its digital video releases – and with … Read More