Halo is coming to the small screen, but in a new twist, it will head to Paramount Plus. Previously announced for sister network Showtime, Deadline first reported that the TV series based on the hit video game franchise will arrive in the first quarter of 2022.  Halo developer 343 Industries announced in 2018 that Showtime had ordered …

Disney Plus grew to 94.9 million subscribers as of Jan. 2, Disney said Thursday. That’s 8 million subscribers added since early November, and more than three times the number of subscribers that Disney Plus had a year earlier.  By comparison, Netflix, the biggest subscription video service in the world, had more than 200 million global subscribers at the end of the year. Netflix …

Peacock, the partly free streaming service that kicked off this year as the new home for streaming The Office, ended last year with 33 million signups, parent company Comcast said Thursday. That includes free users and accounts that pay either $5 or $10 a month to unlock Peacock’s full catalog. It also includes people who may not be using it …

HBO Max hit 17.2 million accounts at the end of last year, HBO parent company AT&T said Wednesday in its latest quarterly report. Boosted by interest in Wonder Woman 1984, which started streaming on Max on Dec. 25, the same day it debuted in theaters, HBO Max doubled its number of total activations at the end of 2020 compared with three months earlier.  …

Netflix’s subscribers surpassed 200 million as the company closed out 2020, a milestone further cementing Netflix as the world’s biggest subscription streaming video service of its kind.  By comparison, Disney Plus — which has been the breakout hit in the so-called streaming wars, when a parade of new Netflix rivals launched — ramped up to 86.8 million subscribers in its first year. …

Amazon will acquire podcast publisher Wondery, the latest tech giant investing in podcasts in the hope of popularizing its streaming services (and, by extension, the hardware sells you to access them). But Amazon, which operates the Amazon Music audio service, said Wondery’s programming — which includes such podcasts as Dirty John, Dr. Death and Business Wars — will continue to be …

Longtime Apple iPhone supplier Lens Technology, a maker of glass screens and coverings, has been accused of using forced Uighur labor in its factories, according to a report by The Washington Post, which cited documents from the human rights group Tech Transparency Project. The report noted that Lens Technology is a supplier to Tesla and Amazon, too. Many companies’ supply chains wind through …

Roku and HBO Max have reached a deal for Roku‘s popular lineup of streaming devices to support HBO Max’s app, a breakthrough in their months-long standoff that will give millions of people the option to easily stream movies like Wonder Woman 1984, The Matrix 4 and Dune in the coming days and months. HBO Max became available on Roku starting Thursday, making the service available …

Disney Plus will raise its US subscription price by $1 in March, bringing it to $8 a month, Disney said Thursday as it unleashed a flood of news about its streaming services at a four-hour event. Disney laid out plans for as many as 20 new Marvel and Star Wars series, promised to let animation fans stream animated fantasy Raya and the …

Disney Plus is raising its US price by $1 to an $8-a-month subscription starting in March, after Disney launched the streaming service in November 2019 to enormous popularity. In continental Europe, prices are going up by two euros to nine euros a month, and it will be making similar adjustments in other markets where Disney Plus is charged in local currencies.  “These …