Paramount Plus and Showtime’s parent company has launched a discounted streaming bundle that packages both together, ViacomCBS said Tuesday, and they’re available at promotional prices for about a month. A bundle with ad-free Paramount Plus and Showtime packaged together is $13 a month, $8 cheaper than what you’d pay for the equivalent services separately. A packaging …
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“Cruella de Vil, Cruella de Vil, if she doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will!” Cruella, Disney’s live-action prequel starring Emma Stone and Emma Thompson, is finally streaming on Disney Plus for no extra fee. Disney Plus monthly subscription See at Disney Originally released in May, the movie reveals Cruella de Vil’s origin story and shows what she was like before the …
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Disney Plus grew to 116 million subscribers as of July 3, Disney said Thursday. That’s more than double a year earlier, but it also means Disney Plus added 12.4 million new members since earlier this year while the service was releasing new episodes of popular shows like Marvel series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki and streamed its latest Pixar movie …
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HBO Max‘s plot to take on Netflix and Disney Plus just got a lot twistier. In a seismic jolt to the media industry, parent company AT&T said Monday that it plans to spin off its WarnerMedia division — home to its entire media business, including streaming service HBO Max — and merge it with Discovery, known for reality shows and other unscripted programming on its …
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Ted Lasso, the Apple TV Plus sports dramedy that may be its closest thing to a breakout hit, is set to return July 23. But in a first for a lot of Apple TV Plus subscribers, you might actually have to pay to watch it. The second-season premiere for Ted Lasso, announced at Apple’s Spring Loaded event Tuesday, will arrive after the date …
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Disney Plus is raising its price by $1 to an $8-a-month subscription in the US starting Friday, with its annual subscription going up $10, to $80 a year. And Disney’s discounted bundle that packages Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN Plus together will also go up by $1 in the US: People with the bundle that includes ad-supported Hulu will see their …
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Amazon is giving its Fire TV remote a refresh, making it easier to quickly open apps for Netflix, Disney Plus and Hulu as well as its own Prime Video. The updated remote, revealed on Wednesday, will come included with new purchases of the third-generation Fire TV Stick (but not the Fire TV Stick 4K or Cube). In addition to the …
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was Disney Plus‘ most watched series premiere yet, Disney’s Marvel said Monday. The ranking, based on viewing from the show’s premiere Friday through Sunday, didn’t include any hard numbers for the amount of watch-time spent on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s first episode. After The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Disney Plus’ most watched opening weekends for …
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Peacock, the partly free streaming service that kicked off this year as the new home to stream The Office, has 35 million signups, Comcast’s NBCUniversal — its parent company — said Monday in a presentation for advertisers. That’s up from the 33 million signups the company reported at the end of last year. Signups, as a metric, includes both free …
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HBO Max will launch a cheaper, ad-supported tier of its US streaming service in June, adding commercials to its programming in exchange for a discount to its now $15-a-month subscription price. Parent company AT&T didn’t specify the price for the new HBO Max membership level, though it may clarify how much it costs during an investor presentation later Friday. But the ad-supported version of …
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