A new company has joined the TV Everywhere ecosystem. Today, Discovery Communications launched Discovery GO, a new streaming app featuring content from Discovery TV’s properties, including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, and several others. Be warned–most of Discovery Go’s content can only be discovered (see what we did there?) by pay-TV cable subscribers.
From Sling Blade to Bad Santa to FX’s Fargo, Billy Bob Thornton has an illustrious history of playing thieves and killers. Now he’ll try the other side of the law on for size. Amazon confirmed that it has greenlit Trial, a new Thornton-starring drama set to run exclusively on Amazon Prime next year. The series, […]
Snapchat’s Discover platform is about to get more social media exposure. Discover features content from a select group of 16 Snapchat partners including CNN, Vice, and VOX; until now, said partners have been unable to link directly to their pages on social channels such as Facebook and Twitter. That’s about to change. One result is […]
Chromecast reigned supreme in Q3. According to the market research firm Strategic Analytics, Google’s streaming device accounted for 35% of streamers sold worldwide in the third quarter of 2015. Apple TV placed second with 20%, followed by Amazon Fire TV with 16% and Roku with 16%. As Variety notes, it’s impossible to say whether […]
It’s safe to say The X Files was pure fiction, right? Well, not exactly. The Real, Vice’s original digital series detailing the true stories behind famous films and TV shows, made its season two premiere yesterday. In the opener, Casey Feldman (now the show’s host) traveled to Roswell, New Mexico, accompanied by a paranormal investigator […]
Tonight at 8pm EST, Amazon Prime subscribers will have access to the season 2 premiere of Transparent. The news emerged about eight hours ahead of time, via a tweet from show-creator Jill Soloway. The full season debuts December 11 in the U.S., Germany, Austria, and the U.K.
Nothing’s more expressive than the human face – a fact that Apple is banking on. The company has acquired Swiss start-up Faceshift, TechCrunch reported last week. Faceshift provides motion capture technology that can transpose real facial movements onto animated characters. As of yet, the technology is mostly used in gaming – but it was also […]
Amazon: The next one-stop shop for bundled content? Last week, Bloomberg reported that Amazon is on the verge of locking up deals with multiple on-demand services. Details are still scarce, but online SVOD services, as well as stand-alone on-demand service from cable networks, will likely be included. It seems that Amazon be grouping these services […]
The Man In the High Castle presents some unique marketing challenges. A dystopian drama about a universe in which the Axis Powers won World War II, its content could be a little daunting for some viewers. So Amazon might be forgiven for trying to get creative. Still, the company’s latest effort to market the show […]
Some theater chains may have pitched a fit about it, but it seems that nothing will deter Netflix from debuting its newest films day-and-date (both theatrically and digitally on the same day). The company’s two newest acquisitions are Girlfriend’s Day, a comedy starring Bob Odenkirk (Better Caul Saul) and Mercy, a home invasion thriller […]
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