Digital Stream: Television News

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/production-begins-on-umbrella-academy-s2/

Production has begun on Netflix's The Umbrella Academy: Season 2, the first apparently was more popular than Stranger Things Season 1 (!)

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/rosamund-pike-leads-amazons-wheel-of-time/

Rosamund Pike will lead the cast in Amazon's adaptation of the Wheel of Time book series

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/the-office-to-leave-netflix-in-2021/

All 9 seasons of The Office will leave Netflix at the end of next year

[cutmymilk]

NBC are putting it on their own service. Streaming will implode soon and torrents will be king again!

[Lebowski]

When everyone has there own streaming service nobody dose we have it a lot better than America as they have a lot more services than we do, we only have amazon, now tv and Netflix as major contenders, With Disney coming later this year we will no doubt see now TV and Netflix hit pretty hard as they're quite reliant on Disney conten.

Kodi was king for a time but its popularity was its own downfall as its creator got scared and tried to tank the service.

[wakka]

Glad to hear Kodi is becoming less popular. Piracy's one thing when you need to be a complete nerd to make it work, and/or accept big downsides, but when it becomes too easy and just as good as paying for stuff it starts to concerns me.

[Lebowski]

Kodi was a pretty poor substitute for a Netflix style set up, endless buffering, dead stream's, sub HD content and cam footage where just some of the issues it had.

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First images from Netlix's adaptation of The Witcher:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/first-photos-netflixs-the-witcher-series/

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/gremlins-prequel-animated-series-announced/

For their new streaming service, Warner Bros have greenlit a 10 episode prequel animated series to the two movies... Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/netflix-plans-a-cuphead-animated-series/

Netflix are planning an animated series of Cuphead

Also, on 25 July 2019 Netflix will release their new sci-fi series Another Life:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/duffer-brothers-tease-stranger-things-s4/

And the Duffer Brothers have said plans are starting for Stranger Things: Season 4 and the aim is to shake the shows formula up a bit

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https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2019/07/18/netflix-suffers-a-setback/

First sign of future events for Netflix?
Yesterday the service revealed that it had missed its new subscription targets, causing shares to plummet by 13%.

With recent price hikes, multiple cheaper rivals launching in the next 12 months, the upcoming losses of multiple major licensed shows, likely less viewer loyalty as many shows get cancelled at 3 seasons or less and immense levels of borrowing to create original content - a blip or the first loose thread in Netflix's ambitions?

[cutmymilk]

They put the price up at the same time the most popular shows are being pulled. Now that's confidence!

[Dogg Thang]

The whole thing isn’t making a huge amount of sense to me beyond Netflix. Netflix are in this because it’s their business. They are all in. But it seems now that everyone wants to be part of TV or make TV shows when the only model that worked was the traditional model that everyone has been looking to break and even that was always precarious and often backfired for people, meaning hits had to subsidise a huge number of misses. For many, it just seems to be a vanity project. I mean, why are Amazon in TV? Apple? It’s not because it’s going to make them a load of money.

I think the next couple of years are going to be great for anyone in TV as large companies throw a huge load of money at making new content. Then after that, well, it’s not going to be pretty.

[cutmymilk]

Maybe, as soon as companies realise that they don't make more money by having their own service, everyone will return to Netflix. I think Disney will thrive, but that's about it.

[Atticus]

Amazon are smart enough to lose in one area if it means gaining in others. For a company like them it's another prong they've got in you. Fancy watching The Boys next week? Yeah, okay, let's keep Prime for now. And keep buying products from them with free next day delivery. Etc.