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Virt Locker: NextUp launches new weekly comedy show
January 21, 2021 | VOD News
NextUp is launching The Virt Locker, a new weekly comedy show streaming every Thursday night.
The subscription streaming platform, dedicated to showcasing up-and-coming stand-up comics, has become a go-to destination for live-streamed comedy during the coronavirus pandemic, with a range … Read More
Snowpiercer renewed for Season 3
January 21, 2021 | VOD News
Snowpiercer has been renewed for a third season before its second has even aired.
The show, which is based on the 2013 sci-fi movie by Bong Joon-ho, takes place seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, with … Read More
McG to direct Disney+ Turner & Hooch reboot
January 21, 2021 | VOD News
McG has signed up to direct the Turner & Hooch reboot for Disney+.
The project is based on the 1989 film that starred Tom Hanks as Scott Turner, an ambitious, straight-laced US Marshall who inherited Hooch, the big, unruly dog … Read More
Paramount+ streaming service ready for US launch
January 20, 2021 | VOD News
Paramount is launching its new streaming service, Paramount+, this March.
The platform will effectively be a rebranding of CBS All Access, which has so far given the world Star Trek: Discovery, Lower Decks and Picard, as well as a revival … Read More
Trailer: Greenland heads to Amazon Prime Video this February
January 20, 2021 | VOD News
Greenland, the new disaster movie starring Gerard Butler, will be released on Amazon Prime Video this February.
The movie, which co-stars Morena Baccarini (Deadpool), sees a family fight for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity (Gerard … Read More
BBC iPlayer racks up record-breaking start to 2021
January 20, 2021 | VOD News
BBC iPlayer has racked up a record-breaking start to 2021, with its biggest week on record.
Viewing surged on BBC iPlayer in the first full week of January (4th January to 10th January), as viewers streamed 162 million programmes – … Read More
Trailer: Space Sweepers launches on Netflix this February
January 19, 2021 | VOD News
“These misfits just might save the world.” That’s the promising tagline for Space Sweepers, Netflix’s new sci-fi thriller, which launches this February.
Set in 2092, it sees Earth become a bleak planet which will soon be uninhabitable. Spaceship Victory is … Read More
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Cole star in Netflix’s Against the Ice
January 19, 2021 | VOD News
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Cole will star in Netflix film Against the Ice.
Directed by Danish helmer Peter Flinth, the English-language film follows Denmark’s Alabama Expedition in 1909. It was led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who was attempting … Read More
Sky renews Bulletproof for Season 4
January 19, 2021 | VOD News
Bulletproof will return to Sky One for a fourth season.
Starring Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters as cop-buddy duo Bishop and Pike, the series has been a hit, becoming one of the highest rating titles on Sky One since launching … Read More
The Muppet Show heads to Disney+ this February
January 19, 2021 | VOD News
It’s time to play the music and light the lights, because Disney has confirmed that The Muppet Show will finally arrive on Disney+ this February.
Jim Henson’s iconic series that started it all stars Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie … Read More
