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This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (9th April)
April 9, 2016 | VOD NewsHeard 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 A Night … Read More
New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK this week (9th April 2016)
April 9, 2016 | VOD NewsNot 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
First images from Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival released
April 9, 2016 | VOD NewsNetflix has released a whole bunch of new images from its Gilmore Girls revival.
The reboot will consist of four episodes of 90 minutes, each one covering a different season over the course of one calendar year.
Since the … Read More
BBC Three orders new documentaries from Stacey Dooley and Reggie Yates
April 9, 2016 | VOD NewsBBC Three has ordered new documentaries from Stacey Dooley and Reggie Yates.
The two presenters have proven vital to the channel’s continuing commitment to factual programming, with Yates recently winning Best Presenter at the RTS Awards for Extreme Russia and … Read More
BBC Three viewing figures revealed: Thirteen most popular, as views rival Sherlock
April 9, 2016 | VOD NewsBBC Three has released its first viewing figures since becoming an online channel – and Thirteen is leading the pack.
BBC Three switched from traditional to digital broadcast six weeks ago and, in that time, it has already unleashed a … Read More
Amazon signs first global anime deal with Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
April 8, 2016 | VOD NewsAmazon has snapped up the global rights to Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress – its first global anime acquisition.
Kabaneri, which is available to stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video from today, is the first series from Fuji TV’s “noitaminA” … Read More
Netflix renews Project Mc2 for two more seasons
April 8, 2016 | VOD NewsNetflix has renewed Project Mc2 for two more seasons, set to arrive later this year.
The Daytime Emmy-nominated series was produced by Netflix in association with MGA, the company behind the Bratz dolls. Alongside a string of short-form videos produced … Read More
John Leguizamo, Andrea Riseborough and Owen Teague join Netflix’s Bloodline Season 2
April 8, 2016 | VOD NewsBloodline returns for a second season in May – and it’s bringing with it a host of new characters.
If you thought Danny was the start of the Rayburn family’s troubles, wait until you meet his relatives. At the beginning … Read More
Life and Death Row: Love Triangle series to land on BBC Three in April
April 7, 2016 | VOD NewsBBC Three is aiming to out-Serial Serial with its new true crime documentary series, Life and Death Row: Love Triangle, which arrives later this month.
The online channel’s first serialised documentary made exclusively for digital audiences, Love Triangle follows on … Read More
Hannibal Buress documentary lands on Netflix this Friday
April 7, 2016 | VOD NewsNetflix has announced a new comedy documentary for release this week.
Hannibal Takes Edinburgh, a feature-length film following Hannibal Buress at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, will be released globally on the VOD service on Friday 8th April.
Filmed over the … Read More















