Category: News
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Vote for Your Favorite During the PBS Short Film Festival via Facebook Watch Parties
The PBS Short Film Festival is back for a ninth year across all of PBS’s digital platforms starting today. The festival is part of an ongoing effort to increase the visibility of independent filmakers and will feature 25 short-form independent films under five categories: culture, environment, family, humanity and race. Viewers can watch, share and…
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Cinedigm Reports Highest Sales in Its Five Years
Cinedigm announced today its Q1 2021 (April 1, 2020 through June 30, 2020, for this company) and reported is strongest fiscal performance in its five years in the streaming world. Cinedigm notes that stay at home orders and an overall increase in streaming as the drivers of increased viewership. “We have been laser focused on…
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Apple TV+ Signs Multi-Year Deal with The Maurice Sendak Foundation for Children’s Content
Apple TV+ has partnered with The Maurice Sendak Foundation for rights to create children’s shows based on Sendak’s children’s stories and illustrations like Where The Wild Things Are. With this multi-year deal, Apple TV+ will be able to reimagine the author’s works into new children’s content exclusively for the streaming service. The Maurice Sendak Foundation…
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Peacock May Host a Reunion for ‘The Office’ but Has No Plans for a Reboot
Peacock launches nationwide on July 15 with a content lineup of sports, late night shows, scripted and unscripted series, movies, and originals. One fan favorite show, The Office, will join the lineup in January 2021. While the streaming service plans to promote the addition, a reboot of the show is not in the works. In…
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American Streaming Services Growing in the UK
While traditional television is on somewhat shaky ground in the United States, it’s still fairly solid in the United Kingdom thanks to iconic networks like BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. But some new data from Futuresource Consulting shows that streaming is on the rise across the pond – especially US based services. Through…
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Game of Thrones 4K Blu-Ray Box Set on the Way
If you’re a Game of Thrones fan and you’re disappointed that HBO Max doesn’t offer the series in 4K, another option is coming. Listings for a boxed set of all eight seasons have started appearing on online storefronts, though a solid release date isn’t available just yet. While 4K versions of the first and eighth…
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Celebrate Past Olympics and More on The Criterion Channel in July
Summer is heating up and so is the Criterion Channel’s lineup of content. The Tokyo Olympics may be postponed this summer, but you can still celebrate with 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012, or get your dose of drama with the Marriage Stories feature on Sunday, July 12. Here’s what’s on the Criterion Channel in…
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5 of the Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now
Whether you’re into screaming let it go at the top of your lungs, or watching spandex heroes fight with a giant purple alien over colorful gems with magic powers, Disney+ has a movie for just about everyone. Cord cutters love the service for its wide selection of classic films from Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, Disney,…
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YouTube Finds Its Place in the ‘Big 5’ Streaming Services
As consumers become less and less tied to cable subscriptions, the ways in which the rise of streaming services on connected devices. But a question is quickly rising around a service that has been around longer, has more users, and has a much larger library than any other streaming service, but is rarely mentioned among…
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Land O’Lakes and 48 Others Form Coalition to Bring High-Speed Internet to Rural Areas
Today, 49 organizations across a diverse set of industries formed a coalition to close the gap in “America’s digital divide.” Land O’Lakes spearheaded the venture recruiting companies like Hershey, Nestle, Cargill, Bayer U.S. and Microsoft to form the American Connection Project Broadband Coalition (ACPBC). The Coalition’s goal is to connect and uplift all American communities…