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April 24, 2024
Amazon Prime, Apple TV+ and Netflix want to expand their live sports offerings. The deal can be worth tens of billions of dollars.
February 29, 2024
Paramount has reportedly paused merger talks with Warner Bros. Discovery, but other interested parties are circling.
January 26, 2024
"Road House" director Doug Liman is blasting Amazon-owned MGM Studios over its decision to stream a film originally aimed at the big screen.
November 30, 2023
SAG-AFTRA and the WGA both secured success-based bonuses for streaming as part of their deals to end the strikes. But what does it mean in practice?
July 27, 2023
One of the biggest fights in the ongoing actors and writers strikes is over how they should be compensated for work they create for streamers.
July 10, 2023
The 2023 Allen & Company conference's attendees from Hollywood are facing profit pressures and thorny questions around AI, cord-cutting and consolidation
May 25, 2023
During Boston Universityโs 150th graduation commencement at Nickerson Field on Sunday, audience members, including 2023 graduates, jeered and booed Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav as he accepted an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Zaslavโs 20-minute speech was interrupted with yells and synchronized chants such
May 24, 2023
Welcome to FAST: The free, ad-supported, streaming television bargain bin.
May 13, 2023
Bigger writers rooms and longer seasons mean more costs. This strike comes as streamers look to cut costs every which way, from merging services to cutting content.
March 12, 2023
Over the past year, dozens of shows have been disappearing from streaming platforms like HBO Max and Showtime. Shows like Minx, Made for Love, FBoy Island, and even big budget hits like Westworld have been removed entirely.So why did these platforms, after investing millions of dollars in creating original content, decide not just to cancel those shows, but to make them unavailable altogether?We dive into the economics of the television industry looking for answers to a streaming mystery that ha...