Netflix beat BBC to The Crown “because they could fund it”

This weekend sees the premiere of an epic new costume drama. Charting the life of Queen Elizabeth II, from her wedding through the Suez crisis, the royal series is the kind of thing traditional British TV does best. Where can … Read More

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency hits Netflix this December

Netflix has announced that Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency will be released in the UK this December.

The adaptation of Douglas Adams’ comic novels is co-produced by the streaming giant and BBC America, with Netflix being the exclusive home for … Read More

The Wallandering Dead? Netflix brings in The Rain from Scandinavia

Nobody does TV thrillers quite like Sweden, Norway, Denmark and their other chillingly gripping brethren. So while the BBC has made itself the Saturday night home of subtitled shows, and Channel 4 has launched Walter Presents, a streaming service dedicated … Read More

Jessica Jones Season 2 will be entirely directed by women

Jessica Jones Season 2 will be entirely directed by women.

Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg revealed the news at Transforming Hollywood 7: Diversifying Entertainment, a conference held last week at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Rosenberg … Read More

Young people now watch more YouTube than TV in the US

Young people in the US now watch YouTube more than cable TV, according to a new study of teenagers online.

The rise of online streaming among younger viewers is far from a surprise, but this is the first time that … Read More

Netflix and Amazon spend more than CBS, HBO and Turner on content

Netflix and Amazon are now spending more on original programming than CBS, HBO and Turner, a new report reveals.

The research by IHS Markit highlights just how big a part of the streaming landscape original content has become. Indeed, in … Read More

Netflix’s The Ivory Game joins the fight to save African elephants

Netflix is taking us to the frontline in the fight to save the African elephants this winter, with new documentary The Ivory Game.

Recently premiered to acclaim at both the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festivals, the film was just … Read More

Shooter to start on Netflix UK this November

Shooter the TV series will premiere on Netflix UK on 16th November, VODzilla.co can reveal.

We have confirmed that the show, based on the Mark Wahlberg film from 2007 and Stephen Hunter’s novel, Point of Impact, will air exclusively on … Read More

Things get personal in new trailer for The Crown

“Might I suggest not being head of the church, or the state, or the army, or the navy, or the government…” snaps Prince Philip at Queen Elizabeth II in the new trailer for The Crown.

The latest glimpse of … Read More

Netflix goes Dark with first German original series

Netflix has started principal photography on Dark, its first Germany original series.

Set in a German town in the present day, the show follows the disappearance of two young children, which exposes the double lives and fractured relationships among four … Read More