Amazon passes on 2017 comedy pilots

Amazon has passed on all of its comedy pilots released this autumn.

Amazon’s pilot season format has been a key part of developing original shows for Amazon Prime Video, with individual episodes released publicly online and audience feedback used to … Read More

YouTube Red drops Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me 2 following director’s sexual misconduct confession

YouTube has dropped Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me 2 from its upcoming slate of original titles, following the filmmaker’s confession to sexual misconduct.

The director, who became a famed documentarian with his fast food film Super Size Me, posted on … Read More

Greg Davies records Netflix special

Greg Davies is the latest British comedian to record a stand-up special for Netflix.

The streaming service has increasingly stepped up its stand-up game in recent years, signing a wealth of big US names to step behind the mic and … Read More

CBeebies launches interactive version of The Snow Queen

CBeebies has launched a new interactive version of The Snow Queen on its app.

The Snow Queen, narrated by actress Wunmi Mosaku, tells the tale of Gerda, a young village girl who is on a quest to save her best … Read More

The Weekly MUBI Digest | 16th December

This week sees MUBI premiere its latest exclusive acquisition – Ava – but before then, there’s a typically diverse selection to handpick gems from, be it Alain Gomes’ stunning Felicite (read our full review here), the shorts by Colombia-born, France-based … Read More

Apple orders space drama from Ronald D. Moore

Apple is preparing to put a rocket under its new video push, with the order for a new space drama from Ronald D. Moore.

Moore, who is something of a sci-fi legend after creating the Battlestar Galactica reboot, first cut … Read More

Matt Charman and George Clooney team up for Netflix Watergate series

George Clooney and Matt Charman are teaming up for a new Netflix series about Watergate.

The very name conjures up spectres of US politics past, from the shocking details of the 70s scandal to their various incarnations on the big … Read More

Disney to buy 21st Century Fox

Disney will officially buy 21st Century Fox, in a colossal merger worth $52.4 billion.

One of the biggest deals in media history, the agreement would see the largest studio by box office and the third-largest join together. The prospect of … Read More

Netflix to tackle Rotten food, Trump and Dirty Money

Netflix will be taking on corporate greed, Donald Trump and the food industry in two new original documentary series this January.

From the team behind Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown and The Mind of a Chef, Rotten gives food the true … Read More

Netflix bags UK rights to Black Lightning

Netflix UK will be the exclusive UK home for Black Lightning, VODzilla.co can confirm.

The brand new comic book series from The CW is based on the DC Comics of the same name, following a man with the power to … Read More