Category: News
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How to Watch MLB Games the Week of May 10 Without Cable
Week 7 of the 2021 MLB regular season starts today with a loaded lineup of nationally televised games. ESPN, ESPN+, MLBN, FS1, and YouTube will be the home of this week’s national games, with various regional sports networks providing the local broadcasts. The season is picking up as teams are trying to separate themselves from…
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The Roku Channel Adds Over Two Dozen Free Movies for May
The Roku Channel, Roku’s free streaming service, is adding over two dozen movies and two new TV shows to its free streaming lineup in May. Starting this month, you can watch all five seasons of Alias, a 1962 John Wayne classic crime story, and the quintessential 80s fantasy film The Neverending Story. Here are all…
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NBC Partners with Twitch for Live Coverage of the Tokyo Olympics
NBC will partner with Twitch to provide a new way for fans to stream the Summer Olympics. The NBC Olympics Twitch channel will livestream coverage of the Tokyo Summer Olympics and events leading up to them. The content will be geared toward Twitch viewers with athlete interviews, Olympic-themed competition shows, and more. The NBC Olympics…
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Survey: Almost Half of Consumers Aren’t Likely to Subscribe to a New Streaming Service Just to Watch a New Release
The past year has seen some major changes in the way new movies are released. With movie theaters closed for much of 2020 and attendance still low once after reopening, production companies had to get a bit creative with how to release their blockbusters. Some movies like the award-winning Nomadland went straight to streaming on…
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HBO Max ‘Friends’ Reunion Special Wrapped Shooting and Will Have Special Surprises
HBO Max’s ‘Friends’ reunion special has finished shooting after delays pushed it back a full year. The unscripted reunion was supposed to shoot and air last spring but was postponed due to the pandemic. But it’s full steam ahead now, and Courteney Cox says the show had a lot of “special surprises.” Without giving too…
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Streaming Services are Using Dramas, Documentaries, and True Crime to Target Older Viewers
Streaming has become the new normal when it comes to TV providers with nearly 8 in 10 TV consumers now use a streaming service. Younger generations have been using them close to their whole adult life, and now older audiences are adopting the digital age as well. “The fastest growth in uptake of VOD viewing…
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HBO Max’s Watch With Mom Lineup is Perfect for Mother’s Day
HBO Max is rolling out a ‘Watch With Mom’ category for you to enjoy with your own mom this Mother’s Day. The list can be found on the homepage and throughout the app on the Movies, Series, and Kids and Family pages, with featured “Watch With Mom” and “Celebrating Moms” trays full of titles that…
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Cinemark’s New Deal With Five Major Studios Could Shorten Theatrical Windows
There’s no denying the movie theater landscape is changing. The Covid-19 pandemic threw the industry a huge curveball in 2020 and movie studios had to find ways to adapt to delays or home entertainment releases. Now theaters are getting back to business, but not as usual. Cinemark recently inked a new deal with five major…
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Weekend Wrap-Up: Hulu and Discovery Make a Deal, Spectrum Raises Prices, and More
This week, we learned about a new deal between Hulu and Discovery, as well as Hulu’s increased interest in unscripted originals. Elsewhere, Charter Spectrum is set to raise its prices, and Toshiba’s got a new line of 4K Fire TVs on the way. Here’s what happened in the world of cord cutting and streaming. Breaking…
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Sundance Now’s May Lineup Includes Irresistible True Crime and Drama Premieres
Sundance Now is releasing a new slate of premieres for May, including the service’s exclusive true crime documentary Between Black and Blue, The Nest starring Martin Compston(Line of Duty), Sophie Rundle (Peaky Blinders, Bodyguard), and Mirren Mack (Sex Education), and the suspenseful drama The Drowning, which will premiere simultaneously on AMC Networks’ Acorn TV. Here’s Sundance Now’s full May lineup:…