The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel sweeps 2019 SAG Awards winners

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel swept the 2019 SAG Awards last night, winning all three of the big acting prices for TV. Amazon’s show, which follows housewife Midge Maisel as she moves from an unhappy marriage to a surprising career as … Read More

BBC iPlayer orders new coming-of-age programming

BBC iPlayer has ordered a wave of new programmes for 12-15-year-olds reflecting the highs and lows of their lives in the UK today.

The multi-genre offering explores the challenges faced by young people when it comes to important issues like … Read More

Jason Bateman to direct untitled Netflix film

Jason Bateman is set to direct a new film for Netflix.

Word of the project, which was broken by Deadline, marks the deepening of the Arrested Development’s star with the streaming giant. Last year, his production company, Aggregate, signed a … Read More

Machinima videos disappear from YouTube

Almost all of Machinima’s videos have disappeared from YouTube in the last fortnight.

The channel, which is one of YouTube’s most popular, boasts 12.39 million subscribers, a gargantuan audience built up since it launched back in 2006. But fans were … Read More

BBC Four unveils world drama slate for 2019

Ask anyone who watches TV if they’ve heard of The Killing or Sarah Lund and you’ll get a sense of how much the appetite for world drama has grown in the last decade. While Channel 4 has helped launch Walter … Read More

Amazon acquires Sundance comedy Late Night for record $13m

Amazon Studios has acquired Sundance comedy Late Night for a record-breaking $13 million.

The deal, which was brokered overnight after a heated bidding war and announced by Deadline, gives Amazon the US rights to the movie, which is directed by … Read More

Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp joins Wolves in the Walls VR

Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp is venturing into virtual reality territory, joining the cast of Wolves in the Walls.

The animated series, based on Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s children’s book of the same name, is made by Fable and follows … Read More

The Weekly MUBI Digest | 26th January 2019

MUBI concludes its trio of MyFrenchFilmFestival treats this week, with the latest film starring Vincent Cassel. But first, there’s time for a double hit of Spike Lee joints to celebrate the filmmaker’s Oscar nomination for BlacKkKlansman. Speaking of awards, on … Read More

Netflix begins production on Triad Princess

Production is now underway on Netflix’s Triad Princess. The Taiwanese original series, announced last November, is created by talented playwright-director Neal Wu, known as a leading representative of Taiwanese popular literature and for his acclaimed movie At Cafe 6. It … Read More

Professional binge-watching? NOW TV offers £35k in UK’s first Box Set Sabbatical

Ever fancied yourself a professional binge-watcher? That dream job could be in sight this new year, as NOW is offering someone £35,000 a year in what has been billed as “the UK’s first Box Set Sabbatical”.

A fifth of Brits … Read More