AMC Networks owns a large chunk of the basic cable landscape and is presently invested in niche streaming services and has no plans to amalgamate them into one big competitor. AMC Networks currently owns the AMC, IFC, We TV, BBC America, WEtv and Sundance TV networks, but also runs four niche streamers catering to specific […]
Hulu is keeping its pedal to metal in the streaming TV race: The company said it ended 2018 with more than 25 million total subscribers, a net gain of 8 million for the year. The 47% year-over-year growth in subscribers for 2018 gives Hulu more video customers than the U.S.’s biggest pay-TV providers — including […]
Hulu has reached a deal with the Lionsgate-owned premium TV network Starz to offer it as an option to customers on any of Hulu’s subscription plans. Starting Tuesday, Oct. 23, Hulu subscribers can add Starz for $8.99 per month, the same price it’s available for directly and through Amazon, Sling TV and YouTube TV (while […]
Ratings agency Nielsen has revealed it plans to extend measurement of TV show audiences to select subscription video on demand services. Measurement of SVOD content has been a major blind spot for the industry with the likes of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. often refusing to reveal audience figures. Nielsen will now make available audience data […]
Hulu isn’t just for Disney’s TV shows and made-for TV fare anymore. It will offer more than 50 theatrical movies from the studio’s library as part of a new multi-year deal, the companies say this morning. Disney’s new releases go to Netflix. But Disney’s a co-owner of Hulu and already supplies kids programs and — […]
“Longmire” has been renewed for Season 5 by Netflix. After being canceled by A&E, Netflix nabbed the Western crime drama for Season 4. The 10-episode run launched this past September on the streaming service. The series previously aired on A&E for three seasons. The renewal announcement was made Friday on “Longmire’s” Facebook page with the […]
Hulu will debut “11.22.63,” based on the time-travel novel by Stephen King about the JFK assassination, on Presidents Day, Feb. 15, 2016. J.J. Abrams, Stephen King, Bridget Carpenter and Bryan Burk serve as executive producers for “11.22.63.” The nine-hour limited event series stars James Franco as a high-school history teacher who travels back in time […]
Hulu has acquired exclusive subscription VOD rights to past episodes of TNT’s drama series “The Librarians,” starring Noah Wyle and Rebecca Romijn — two weeks before season 2 of the show premieres on the cabler. The pickup is the latest move in the battle among Internet streamers for TV shows this fall, with a flurry […]
Netflix confirmed Thursday that it has acquired the rights to NBC’s hot first-year drama “The Blacklist,” from Sony Pictures TV. The deal is reportedly worth about $2 million per episode, though Netflix would not confirm the price. This would make it the most expensive off-network current series picked up by Netflix, eclipsing the roughly $1.35 […]
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