Netflix has made its largest deal yet for original content, inking with DreamWorks Animation for 300 hours of original content. The move helps fill the void left by the departure of most Nickelodeon kids series on Netflix. It also add fuel to the streaming media company's original content program, increasingly seen as its long-term survival … [Read more...]
Big binge for ‘Arrested’
Netflix served up an entire new season of "Arrested Development" over the holiday weekend, and fans immediately binged on the 15-episode feast, according to a quickie usage study. One DSL network showed that 36 percent of devices accessing Netflix on Sunday watched at least one episode of "Arrested Development," broadband analysts Procera said. … [Read more...]
‘SNL’ classics to Yahoo
" 'Saturday Night Live' has pervaded and defined our culture for decades," Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says. Now, 38 years worth of "SNL" will be pervading Yahoo. Archived content from the NBC comedy chestnut will flow exclusively to Yahoo video come September, covering the years 1975 through 2012. The classic "SNL" clips will be coming down from … [Read more...]
Wachowskis link to Netflix
Netflix has snagged the Wachowski duo for the original series "Sense8," billed as "a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted." The techno-thriller debuts exclusively on Netflix in "late 2014." It tells of a group of psychically linked people who are being hunted by the powers that be. The Wachowskis, famed for "The Matrix" … [Read more...]
Criterion streams for free
Here's some love from Criterion. Through Monday, all of the arthouse label's titles streaming on Hulu Plus are free to everyone. There are more than 800 titles now on Hulu Plus, including quite a few that never made it to home video release. The catch: The movies come with ads, which Hulu Plus paid subscribers rarely see. Criterion says … [Read more...]
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