YouTube’s Fullscreen plans to launch subscription service

Fullscreen is planning to launch its own subscription VOD service.

The multichannel network is one of YouTube’s biggest, including more than 50,000 creators, from the Fine Bros., Connor Franta, O2L and Andrea Russett to Lohanthony, Devin Supertramp and Jack and … Read More

Amazon Fire TV claims fastest growing streaming library

Amazon claims to have the fastest growing library of content on Fire TV than any other streaming media player.

Amazon’s little black box, which first launched last year, is a strong competitor in the set top box market, thanks to … Read More

Beauty vlogger bags $100m for make-up startup

Beauty vlogger Michelle Phan has bagged $100 million for her make-up startup.

The company was co-founded by the popular YouTuber back in 2011 with former Funny or Die exec Marcelo Camberos and ex-Goldman Sachs analyst Jennifer Goldfarb – two … Read More

VOD film review: Paul

Despite a game cast, this disappointing sci-fi comedy is no Galaxy Quest.Read More

Netflix buys Oz series Small Time Gangster

Netflix has bought the streaming rights to Australian series Small Time Gangster.

The show, made in Melbourne, follows Tony Piccolo, a family man who cleans carpets by day – and, by night, is the toughest enforcer in the city’s criminal … Read More

Netflix adds Ajin: A Demi-Human to anime line-up

Update: Ajin: A Demi-Human will be released on Netflix UK on Tuesday 12th April.

Netflix will premiere the popular anime Ajin: A Demi-Human in 2016, as part of a new deal.

The agreement with Polygon Pictures will see the series … Read More

VOD film review: Spooks: The Greater Good

This big-screen outing for the BBC spy series isn’t afraid to keep things refreshingly low-key.Read More

​MUBI signs deal with Paramount

MUBI has signed a deal with Paramount to add the studio’s films to its streaming line-up. On Sunday, our weekly MUBI UK round-up revealed that Mission: Impossible had arrived on the subscription service – a release that marked the first … Read More

Amazon releases new Red Oaks trailer

Amazon has released a trailer for Red Oaks ahead of its October premiere.

The coming-of-age comedy is directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Joe) and produced by Steven Soderbergh and stars Craig Roberts (Submarine) as a tennis coach in … Read More

Top TV shows and films on BBC iPlayer (14th September 2015)

As autumn gets underway, the season of appointment TV begins once more in fresh earnest. The X Factor and Strictly join The Great British Bake Off in the TV industry’s efforts to create event television – the kind of thing … Read More