Orange Is the New Black leads 2014 Emmy nominations for comedy

Orange Is the New Black leads the comedy category in the 2014 Emmy nominations.

Jeji Kohan’s Netflix Original prison series has received 12 nominations in this year’s award race, including Best Comedy Series and three separate actress awards. Taylor Schilling … Read More

Roku more popular than Apple TV

Roku is more popular than Apple TV, acccording to a new report from Parks Associates.

The study (The Evolving Market For Streaming Media Devices) shows that among US broadband households with a streaming media player, 44 per cent use a … Read More

UKTV’s Watch sinks teeth into Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain for UK broadcast

UKTV has sinked its teeeth into Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain. The series’ UK broadcast will be on Watch this autumn.

The sci-fi horror is based on the best-selling vampire novel trilogy co-written by the Pan’s Labyrinth director and author … Read More

Digital video spending rises one-third in 2014

Digital video spending climbed by 33 per cent in the first half of 2014.

New figures from the British Video Association show that in the first six months of this year, consumer expenditure on digital video fuelled a rise in … Read More

Amazon Prime Instant Video TV review: Extant Episode 1 (spoiler-free)

“Just give me some time to figure it out.” That’s Molly’s reaction to her doctor in Episode 1 of Extant. It’s understandable: she’s just returned home after 13 months isolated in space. And discovered she’s with child.

It’s an … Read More

TheHorrorShow.tv moves into DVD as well as VOD distribution

TheHorrorShow.tv is moving into DVD distribution.

The streaming site, which specialises in horror and genre titles, launched last year in the UK. While the industry increasingly moves towards digital releasing, though, the company has taken a step in the other … Read More

VOD TV recap: 24 Live Another Day Episode 10

Warning: This contains spoilers.

Never trust a man in a cravat. That’s what 24: Live Another Day seemed to tell us in Episode 9, when it revealed that Adrian Cross was the bad guy all along.

Yes, Adrian Cross, everyone’s … Read More

Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie: The film Kevin Smith was made to distribute

“Jay and Silent Bob win the lottery and become superheroes” would be an accurate depiction of Jay and Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie, an hour-long film penned by Kevin Smith and produced by hetero life-partner Jason Mewes. Scrappily animated … Read More

Why Netflix and Amazon are fighting over your kids

From fast food to toys, kids have always been a big target market in this commercial age. Film is no exception: 12A certificate movies accounted for 51.8 per cent of gross UK box office last year in the cinema, as … Read More

VOD film review: Under the Skin

This atmospheric, unsettling, beautifully scored film sticks with you for an inhuman amount of time. Read More