YouTube and the other Google sites logged almost 2 billion online viewing sessions in March, comScore reports. Overall, 174 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content last month, with the average viewer taking in 14.8 hours of online content. Most of the major metrics showed improvement from February (28 days) to March (31 … [Read more...]
Lumet & Chayefsky’s anti-social ‘Network’
"I think I'd like to be an angry prophet denouncing the hypocrisies of our time," fallen news anchor Howard Beale tells co-workers in the opening minutes of the media-bashing masterpiece "Network." Director Sidney Lumet and writer Paddy Chayefsky, equally mad as hell, used their black comedy about a raggedy fourth TV network to denounce the … [Read more...]
‘Topsy-Turvy’ while turning Japanese
Topsy-turvy turned into a downer. "Princess Ida" came up short on charm. And so Gilbert & Sullivan's partnership neared collapse. Such is the setup for Mike Leigh's "Topsy Turvy," the delightful 1999 biopic about the masters of comic opera and the making of their "The Mikado." The Criterion Collection has rereleased "Topsy-Turvy" on Blu-ray … [Read more...]
Hulu nears 1 million subs
In what could be "the fastest start of any online video subscription service," Hulu's premium service is on track to top 1 million paying customers in 2011, CEO Jason Kilar says. Hulu should make about $500 million during the year, vs. about half that in 2010, he said. Chump change in the TV business, but an impressive showing in online TV, an … [Read more...]
‘Mad Men’ brand to Netflix
AMC's retro-hip hit "Mad Men" will start streaming via Netflix as of midsummer. Lionsgate and Netflix cut a multiyear deal for the Emmy-winning series under which the first four seasons will start streaming on the Watch Instantly service as of July 27, with subsequent seasons to follow. Netflix dubbed it an "exclusive syndication deal," but … [Read more...]
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