Tag: streaming
What HBO’s Game of Thrones Losses Mean for HBO Max
HBO Max isn’t the future so much as it is a lifeline. Variety has published the Nielsen ratings for 2020, and they reveal that HBO – the actual premium cable channel – lost 38% of its total subscribers and 52% of those in the highly-valued 18-49 demographic from the previous year. Those losses...
Read MoreIdris Elba to Star in Spy Movie for Apple
Apple TV+ spies a hit. Deadline reports that the burgeoning streaming service has picked up the rights to an untitled spy film starring Idris Elba. The plot is unknown, but the movie will be “an action spy/romance” set in Africa and is written by Travon Free, an Emmy winner for his work on The D...
Read MoreMacGruber Announcement Video Accompanies Peacock Pickup
NBC and Roku need to sort out their differences post haste because Peacock has released an announcement that they’ve picked up the MacGruber series! MacGruber started as a Saturday Night Live sketch that parodied MacGyver; MacGruber, played by Will Forte, would find himself in desperate situations...
Read MoreStep Up: High Water Picked Up for Season 3 by Starz
The Step Up franchise isn’t done dancing across TV screens just yet. Deadline has announced that Step Up: High Water will be moving to Starz after having been canceled by YouTube Red last year. The move isn’t entirely unexpected since the show is produced by Starz parent company Lionsgate. Serie...
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Digital Influencer Craig “Mini Ladd” Thompson
Craig “Mini Ladd” Thompson is one of the internet’s perennial entertainers, serving not only as a prime example of success in the Youtube space but also of how to utilize that success to give back. When the opportunity arose to interview Thompson via E-mail, I jumped at the chance ...
Read MoreMacGruber Show Coming to NBC’s Peacock
America’s favorite MacGyver spoof (by default) just defused a bomb with a paper clip, as NBC’s Peacock streaming service will resurrect MacGruber as a TV show. MacGruber began as a sketch on Saturday Night Live back when it was a comedy show, in which Will Forte portrayed an incompetent adventur...
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