The Walking Dead Season 5 available to watch online in UK from Monday 13th October

The Walking Dead Season 5 UK release date has been confirmed by Fox as Monday 13th October – with a Season 5 Part 2 premiere of Monday 9th February 2015.

The series, based on Robert Kirkman’s graphic novels, will premiere … Read More

“The uncertainty appeals to me.” An interview with David Gordon Green (Joe)

David Gordon Green’s Joe arrives in UK cinemas and on VOD today. It’s a coming-of-age tale about a teenage boy, Gary, taken under the wing of an ex-con, Joe, while being raised by his abusive father, Wade. The film boasts … Read More

blinkbox now on Chromecast

blinkbox is now available on Google Chromecast.

The media steaming device, which plus into an HDMI port and lets viewers use their laptop or tablet to browse and “cast” content from video apps to their TV, launched in the UK … Read More

Meet Simpsons World: Your new favourite TV channel. If you REALLY like The Simpsons.

If you were planning to go outside this summer bad news: FFX just came up with 552 reasons not to.

If you like yellow people eating their shorts and drinking Duff, say hello to your new favourite TV channel: SimpsonsWorld.com. … Read More

Netflix UK film review: Need for Speed

This underwhelming car chase flick would make a good computer game. As a film, it’s disappointingly dull.Read More

Why did BBC iPlayer go down?

Fans of Formula 1 and EastEnders would have noticed over the weekend that BBC iPlayer wasn’t working properly. As we reported this week, the BBC’s flagship VOD service experiences some severe downtime, as problems first surfaced on Saturday 19th July … Read More

BBC Worldwide to launch paid iPlayer service in 2015

BBC Worldwide is preparing to launch its paid iPlayer service next year.

The broadcaster’s commercial arm released its annual report this week and included details of the online electronic sell-through store. The proposed paid shop, which will give customers access … Read More

Your 2014 Summer Binge-Viewing VOD Guide

Sweat. Swimming trunks. Sand. Sunburn. Other people. Let’s face it. Summer sucks.

If you go outside. You know, in the sun.

Us? We’re indoors. Under the duvet. Plan to do the same? We’ve picked our highlights of what’s … Read More

VOD film review: Joe

Director: David Gordon Green Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter Certificate: 15

Click here to read our interview with Joe’s director, David Gordon Green.

“These trees are weak. Nobody wants them.”

That’s Joe (Cage) to Gary (Sheridan), whom he … Read More

Orange Is the New Black drives Netflix to 50 million members

Netflix now has over 50 million members around the world in over 40 countries, the company has announced.

Revealing the company’s latest growth figures in its Q2 2014 report, the Internet TV giant has confirmed that within 15 years of … Read More