Thirteen years after it began broadcasting, the BBC’s youth oriented TV channel BBC Three stopped broadcasting yesterday. Instead, it is to continue as an online service, offering about 4 hours a week of new content, available on-demand via the BBC iPlayer, and YouTube. It’s a significant milestone in the move away from ‘linear’ TV, meaning programmes streamed sequentially in a ‘channel’ […]
Dana Brunetti, the producer of House of Cards and The Social Network, spoke on Day 2 of Web Summit, in an interview with Matt Garahan of the Financial Times. The Netflix-produced House of Cards, he said, truly disrupted the traditional television space. “Conventional companies only wanted to commit to a pilot for House of Cards,” said […]
Netflix shares fell 26% percent yesterday as subscriptions faltered. The company said that their forecasts had not taken into account the full impact of the subscription price increase introduced by the company earlier in the year. That impact was not felt until Q3, they claimed because of “the large positive reception to Season Two of Orange is the […]
