Author: Kayla Wassell
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Apple Vision Pro Launches Next Month With 3D Disney+ Films and Experiences
The Apple Vision Pro will launch in February with 3D films and Disney+ experiences featuring popular films such as Avatar, Avengers, and Star Wars. Subscribers can stream the entire Disney+ catalog on Apple Vision Pro with enhanced depth and clarity. Users can watch dozens of Disney films in 3D, including Avatar: The Way of Water,…
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Your Library Card Can Be a Free Ticket to Hundreds of Film Festivals
Hoopla Digital, a free streaming service for public libraries, partnered with Filmocracy to launch BingePass, a first-of-its-kind digital access pass to film festivals and more. Hoopla BingePass is a free service accessible through your library card. Library patrons with hoopla accounts can find independent films from acclaimed film festivals from around the world. Each pass…
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We Wasted 227 Million Hours Answering Spam Calls in 2023
Truecaller, a spam-blocking app, released its U.S. Spam Scorecard, showing households in this country wasted 227 million hours answering fraudulent calls in 2023. The U.S. Spam Scorecard offers insights into billions of spam calls and text messages detected through its artificial intelligence-powered app. Truecaller users received an average of 5.7 spam calls per month, totaling…
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FilmRise Adds 5,000 Hours of New Free Shows, Including British Versions of Hell’s Kitchen, Nanny 911, and More
FilmRise expanded its licensing deal with ITV Studios to include more than 5,000 hours of scripted and unscripted titles, including 3,000 hours of new premium British series such as Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares. The extended deal includes the ad-supported and ad-based video-on-demand rights to several new and classic British shows that haven’t been available…
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Sling TV Freestream, Fubo & Plex Add a new Free Sports Channel Focusing On Pickleball and Tennis
Navio Networks launched the Court Sports Network, a free ad-supported channel dedicated to racquet and paddle sports. Court Sports Network features matches from several court leagues, including pickleball, tennis, table tennis, squash, beach tennis, wheelchair tennis, padel, badminton, and platform tennis. The network covers live events, original content, behind-the-scenes access to the top professional athletes,…
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Tubi is Getting Exclusive Rights to a Hit International Show This Week
Tubi secured the exclusive U.S. and Canadian rights to Devil’s Peak, a South African limited series. The five-episode action-packed crime thriller will debut on Tubi, Fox’s free ad-supported streaming platform, on January 15. Devil’s Peak is based on the best-selling novel by Deon Myer and produced by Lookout Point and Expanded Media Productions in association…
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Tyler Perry’s BET Original Series Are Coming to Free Streaming Services
BET TV said it will release Tyler Perry’s original series to free streaming platforms, SVOD, broadcast, and other platforms as the content goes into syndication on free streaming services. At the CES 2024 convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, today, BET said it will offer eight original Tyler Perry series for licensing and syndication on third-party…
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Paramount Signs Andor Director Toby Haynes for New Star Trek Origin Film
Paramount Pictures is working on a new Star Trek film with director Toby Haynes and writer Seth Grahame-Smith. Star Trek director JJ Abrams’s studio, Bad Robot, has signed on to produce. The film will take place decades before the 2009 Star Trek movie, according to Deadline. The project will be an origin story and expand…
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NewsNation Expands Weekend Lineup With New Show Morning in America With Hena Doba
NewsNation will expand its weekend news lineup this month. The network is shuffling up its weekday schedule after new hires Hena Doba and Dee Dee Thomas. The new weekend version of Morning in America, hosted by journalist Hena Doba, debuts on January 27. The show premieres on January 27 and will air on Saturdays and…
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ABC’s The Good Doctor Will End After Seventh Season
The Good Doctor, one of ABC’s top-rated series, will conclude after its upcoming seventh season. The last season will air on Tuesdays starting February 20 at 10:00 p.m. ET. Co-showrunners David Shore and Liz Friedman and fellow executive producer Erin Gunn said their series was a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” Still, it was time to bid farewell…