Updated with the latest castings: HBO’s Harry Potter television series has officially gone into production, and a photo of Dominic McLaughlin as The Boy Who Lived, complete with glasses and all, has been released. The new Harry, Ron and Hermione have received their Hogwarts admission letters, as have the newest additions — four out of…
UPDATED with Peacock pricing. Peacocks may be flightless birds, but the NBCUniversal streaming outlet of that name is soaring to the top of the price rankings of ad-supported services, hiking the monthly cost of its Premium tier to $10.99 from $7.99. Time was, the ultra-competitive subscription streaming market gained traction over pay-TV by providing a…
Netflix is due to report second-quarter results after the close of trading Thursday, with Wall Street eagerly anticipating a strong kickoff to media earnings season from the giant streamer. “Currently, we see no scaled global streaming competitor,” said Oppenheimer analyst Jason Helfstein in a recent note to clients, with an “outperform” rating and a higher…
In just eight years, and in a landscape defined by cord-cutting and decline, YouTube TV has become one of the largest pay-TV providers in the U.S. In rapidly scaling to more than 8 million U.S. households (only Comcast, Charter and DirecTV are bigger) since launching in 2017, it has countered the long-established living-room paradigm. Viewers…