Film, directed by Erin Lee Carr and due 28 September, will explore legal and ethical issues of singer’s conservatorshipThe first full trailer of Britney vs Spears, the Netflix documentary by Erin Lee Carr that will explore the legal battle over the pop…
Intrusion review – Netflix home invasion thriller passes muster
A vacant performance from Freida Pinto can’t quite sink a mostly enjoyable, if mostly familiar, domestic mysteryThere’s an adequately scattered trail of breadcrumbs running throughout the brisk Netflix thriller Intrusion that starts us off in one subge…
Netflix acquires works of Roald Dahl as it escalates streaming wars
Content deal over author of children’s classics such as Matilda and the BFG is firm’s biggest to dateNetflix has acquired the works of Roald Dahl, the author of children’s classics including Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the BFG, in th…
BBC director general welcomes proposals for ‘distinctly British’ content
Tim Davie says promotion of British talent could counterbalance the ‘globalised algorithmic’ commissioning of TVThe BBC’s director general has embraced the idea of requiring broadcasters to produce “distinctly British” content, after losing British tal…
Netflix launches free plan in Kenya to boost growth
Netflix said on Monday it is launching a free mobile plan in Kenya as the global streaming giant looks to tap the East African nation that is home to over 20 million internet users. The free plan, which will be rolled out to all users in Kenya in the coming weeks, won’t require them to […]
Roku debuts new Streaming Stick 4K bundles, software update with voice and mobile features
Weeks after Amazon introduced an updated Fire TV lineup that included, for the first time, its own TVs, Roku today is announcing its own competitive products in a race to capture consumers’ attention before the holiday shopping season. Its updates include a new Roku Streaming Stick 4K and Roku Streaming Stick 4K+ — the latter […]
Netflix and Apple TV+ clean up at the Emmys with ‘The Crown’ and ‘Ted Lasso’
Netflix has nabbed the most Emmys ever for a single platform with 44 including 11 for The Crown. Apple TV+, meanwhile, took home 10 Emmys including seven for its comedy series Ted Lasso.
Confluent CEO Jay Kreps is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS for a fireside chat
As companies process ever-increasing amounts of data, moving it in real time is a huge challenge for organizations. Confluent is a streaming data platform built on top of the open source Apache Kafka project that’s been designed to process massive numbers of events. To discuss this, and more, Confluent CEO and co-founder Jay Kreps will […]
How 13 Reasons Why sparked years of suicide-contagion research
A Netflix series fueled heated debates about the risk of copycat suicides in fiction.
Epic Games appeals last week’s ruling in antitrust battle with Apple
Fortnite maker Epic Games is appealing last week’s ruling in its court battle with Apple, where a federal judge said Apple would no longer be allowed to block developers from adding links to alternative payment mechanisms, but stopped short of dubbing Apple a monopolist. The latter would have allowed Epic Games to argue for alternative […]