Amazon takes on YouTube with Amazon Video Direct

Amazon is taking on YouTube with Amazon Video Direct, a new service that will let anyone upload a video to Amazon’s streaming platform.

The self-service program will let people upload their own content to Amazon Instant Video, offering it to … Read More

Chelsea’s Netflix Talk Show – the trailer, schedule and guest line-up

Chelsea Handler’s new talk show premieres on Netflix on Wednesday 11th May – and it’s anybody’s guess what’s in store.

Promising to “free the talk show”, the series – cunningly titled “Chelsea” – marks a big departure for the time-honoured … Read More

MUBI heads to Cannes with festival retrospective

MUBI is heading to Cannes this year – in more ways than one.

The subscription streaming site, which offers a revolving carousel of titles, each for 30 days a time, has made a name for itself with its curated slate … Read More

E4 and Netflix reunite for comedy horror Crazy Face

E4 and Netflix are reuniting to produce a new comedy horror series.

Crazy Frace, which will air on E4 and Netflix, is created by Misfits’ BAFTA award winner Howard Overman and is “a funny, gripping series about friendship, love and … Read More

Wolf Hall bags double BAFTA win, as Transparent trumps Narcos

Wolf Hall bagged a double win at last night’s TV BAFTAs, as the BBC dominated proceedings.

Mark Rylance waltzed away with Leading Actor for his stunning turn as Cromwell, while director Peter Kosminsky was on hand to accept the big … Read More

How BBC iPlayer is becoming more like Netflix

BBC iPlayer is taking a leaf out of Netflix’s book and making its streaming service more and more personalised.

The idea of “myBBC” was first announced in 2015 by Director-General Tony Hall, who said he wanted to build a more … Read More

You can now control how much mobile data Netflix uses

The subscription fees may be low, but streaming movies and TV doesn’t come cheap, as anyone with a mobile phone bill after binge-watching Orange Is the New Black can tell you. Watching movies or TV shows on Netflix uses around … Read More

Brits to spend more on VOD than DVD this year

This year, for the first time, Britons will spend more on video streaming subscriptions and film and TV downloads than on buying and renting DVDs, according to Strategy Analytics.

The research and consulting firm’s latest report predicts that consumers will … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (7th May)

Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of hand-picked classics.

Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, it’s The Company of … Read More

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (7th May 2016)

Not getting your art-house fix from Netflix? Wish there were more indie films on Amazon Prime Video? Every week, we round up the new releases on MUBI, the subscription VOD service that hand-picks new and old classics from around the … Read More