Freeview Connect: BBC, ITV, Channel 4 launch new catch-up service for smart TVs

BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have joined forces to launch a new catch-up TV service for smart TVs: Freeview Connect.

The brand will make each broadcaster’s flagship on-demand service, BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4oD, available as standard on smart … Read More

Game of Thrones Season 4 preview video: A Foreshadowing

HBO have released a new Game of Thrones Season 4 preview video. Called “A Foreshadowing”, the 15-minute video contains a Hodor-sized chunk of new footage, hints at what’s to come in the new season and behind-the-scenes interviews with everyone from … Read More

BT becomes first UK pay-TV provider to offer buy-to-keep movie downloads

BT is launching a new service allowing customers to purchase movies for download, making it the first UK pay-TV provider to offer films on a buy-to-keep basis, as well as rent.

BT have signed a deal with 20th Century Fox … Read More

BBC scales back YouView investment

The BBC is reportedly planning to scale back its investment in YouView.

The broadcaster will cut its support of the set-top box, which was intended to become the new flagship platform for Britain’s free-to-air digital television – Freeview 2.0.

Now, … Read More

10m viewers registered with Channel 4, as targeted ads are introduced on 4oD

10 million viewers have now registered with Channel 4. That’s a lot of people. In fact, that’s half of all UK viewers aged between 16 and 24.

With a growing number of people – specifically, young people – signing up … Read More

Amazon Studios release 10 new Original pilots on Amazon Prime Instant Video for 2014

Last year, the world of TV production chalovefilmnged. Netflix introduced original content for the Internet streaming age, with David Fincher and Kevin Spacey’s House of Cards bagging Emmy awards and Golden Globes. Amazon, meanwhile, released a batch of pilots for … Read More

Addicted? One in five Brits prefer box sets to sex

Bad news this morning: Brits are obsessed with box sets. Yes, you, him, her, potentially everyone in the country, we all could be closet box set addicts, according to research from blinkbox.

41 per cent of Brits surveyed by Tesco’s … Read More

House of Cards Season 3 gets green light from Netflix

House of Cards Season 3 has been given the green light from Netflix.

The Emmy award-winning TV series, which stars Kevin Spacey, charts the rise to power of manipulative Majority Whip Francis Underwood, despite the attempts of young journalist Zoe … Read More

24: Live Another day trailer – Jack’s back… and he’s angry

If you were worried that the new series of 24 wouldn’t feature enough Jack Bauer shouting and firing guns, the 24: Live ANother day trailer will set your mind at ease.

The video, titled “Street Chaos”, makes three things … Read More

US viewers watched more than 50 billion videos online in December 2013

US viewers watched more than 50 billion videos online in December 2013, according to comScore.

The figures show that online video is becoming increasingly popular in the USA, with 188.2 million viewers watching 52.4 billion videos in the final month … Read More