Too many streaming services? Telstra wants to make it easier for you to trawl through all that sweet, sweet content and it’s releasing a new set-top box to help you do it. Telstra Thursday announced the upcoming launch of Telstra TV2 — the follow up to its original set-top box launched in 2015. The big …
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Shonda Rhimes is bringing her trademark jaw-dropping dramatic twists and turns to Netflix. Rhimes and her production company Shondaland are behind such hits as the long-running “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How to Get Away with Murder.” But after 15 years with ABC, Netflix said Sunday it had signed a multi-year deal with Shondaland. The new deal with cover a “new …
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Maybe Amazon just wants more braiiiiinnnnnssssss? The e-commerce giant, which also makes clothing, tablets, television shows and pretty much anything else you can think of, has signed a deal with Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment, the entity behind the hit apocalyptic zombie shows “The Walking Dead” and “Fear The Walking Dead.” The deal, announced Friday, will have the team develop television …
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Now playing: Watch this: Disney cuts the cord with Netflix 1:43 If your heart plummeted like mine did on Tuesday when Disney announced it would be creating its own streaming service and pulling its content from Netflix, you might be able to pick it up off the floor. According to a Reuters report, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says …
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Now playing: Watch this: Facebook TV is happening, rivaling Netflix and YouTube 1:12 Facebook on Thursday announced Watch, an original video platform for your viewing pleasure. Below are some common questions you may find yourself asking (or answering) about the new Facebook platform. Do I have access? Odds are you don’t quite yet. Facebook has said it’s going to start …
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Now playing: Watch this: Disney cuts the cord with Netflix 1:43 “Moana” and other Disney films currently streaming on Netflix won’t be there after 2018, according to the Walt Disney Company. Disney announced Tuesday that it will launch its own subscription service in 2019 that will become the new home to films from Walt Disney Studios, Pixar and others under …
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David Letterman signed off “The Late Show” in 2015, retiring after 33 years of work in late-night television. Now in 2018, he moves to Netflix. The streaming service announced that Letterman will host six hour-long episodes during which he will have a long-form conversation with one guest while also producing field segments away from the studio. The currently untitled show …
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A note from online streamers to Foxtel: You don’t crash during “Game of Thrones” and get away with it. It’s been coming and now a report from Telsyte predicts the amount of Australians who pay for online streaming will overtake pay TV subscribers by June, 2018. The report shows a 30 percent year-on-year increase of Aussies subscribing to online streamers, like …
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First there was Netflix. Now there’s… just about everybody. The latest major TV provider to offer a subscription TV streaming service is FX Networks, home of “American Horror Story,” “The Americans,” and plenty of other shows without “America” in the title. Its new FX+ service will launch Sept. 5, the company announced Monday. Its shows will stream commercial-free and it’s …
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Vizio is the second-best selling TV brand in the US after Samsung, and Amazon Video is the second most popular TV and movie streaming service after Netflix. But it took until today for Amazon to be available on Vizio’s best TVs. The TV maker has rolled out a software upgrade for its 2017 SmartCast TVs that allows direct access to …
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