Netflix may be trying to radically reshape its future by positioning itself as an honest-to-goodness cable channel to square off against the likes of HBO, Cinemax, Showtime and Starz.
Consider this a quiet declaration of war. Talking at the VideoSchmooze NYC event yesterday, HBO Co-President Eric Kessler said that there is “no chance” the company will make its original series like Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones and True Blood available digitally to non-HBO subscribers.
Roku, which pretty much invented the cheap, easy-to-use Internet TV streaming box, is the sort of scrappy startup which you might have assumed would get steamrolled by mammoth competitors early on.
Move over, Netflix; you’ve been replaced as the king of streaming television with Microsoft’s announcement of new partnerships for Xbox 360 with 50 international content providers, including HBO—the one “get” that Netflix has never quite managed.
It’s time to say sayonara to Showtime shows on Netflix. By the summertime, the television service will pull early seasons of “Dexter” and “Californication” on the online-streaming service. Wondering why you weren’t seeing any newer episodes of “Dexter” or never got introduced to “Nurse Jackie”?
For Netflix instant streaming customers, good news: Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos said that the company will make a big push to try and buy HBO’s pay TV output deal with Warner Bros. before it expires in 2014. It’s not that they’re against the premium cable channel: He added that the company also has plans to [...]
HBO is reported to be considering stepping outside of existing cable packages and offering itself as a stand-alone service in order to raise its current subscriber base – and if that doesn’t work, it just might abandon television altogether. The surprise news came from Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, who told an audience at the [...]
Though it hasn’t been announced what network the show Todd McFarlane’s Spawn will be reappearing on, the creator insists that it will keep the same mature content that the show had on the original HBO series. He said the show is “going to a cable network, and [adult-themed programming] is their bread and butter,” to MTV [...]
He may be hanging out with vampires and supernatural creatures on True Blood, but Ryan Kwanten is tackling a beloved genre – the Western – in his latest film Red Hill.
HBO invests further into this whole vampire craze, renewing vampire series True Blood just three weeks into its third season, The Hollywood Reporter claims.
In what I hear is the final True Blood minisode, a frantic Jason Stackhouse runs into the forest to do a little old fashioned repenting. In the most serious episode of A Drop of True Blood we’ve seen, we may even get a touch of foreshadow when Jason encounters a panther in the woods. (Do [...]
