This summer was not a happily equal one on all fronts. One movie that got less than it expected at the box office was Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Maybe the promise that the story would not wrap up in the title kept people from wanting to make the investment of time and…
Sometimes a show gets a second chance to make a first impression. And with multiple platforms and networks to pitch, the chances are far better now than they used to be. That is the case for The Spiderwick Chronicles. Roku announced it has landed the exclusive, premiere U.S. rights to the television adaptation of the…
Amazon Freevee is launching five new BBC based channels on its free platform. The channels will be part of an already extensive lineup of commercially supported Internet-based channels available on most major streaming platforms. The new channels include: BBC Comedy Laugh your way through 300+ hours of comedy content featuring Catherine Tate, Stephen Fry, and…
FreeCast is announcing a distribution agreement with antenna-maker Mohu. This deal will see Mohu bundle FreeCast’s aggregated streaming service with the company’s antennas, giving consumers everything they need to cut the cord and enjoy free TV service in a single package. FreeCast has long been a pioneering company in cord-cutting tech, and the FreeCast service…
Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) is a very different company than it was before the merger. The new leadership has brought a much more old-school approach to the management of its intellectual property that harkens back to the era before every media company wanted to be Netflix. To be fair, we have not been in that…
