“Our customers are streaming more content than ever on our entertainment platforms – up 73% year over year – and this year’s Watchathon is a great opportunity to highlight the breadth and depth of everything we offer across both X1 and Flex,” said Rebecca Heap, senior vice president, video & entertainment for Comcast.
Additionally, customers also can sample full catalogs from Acorn TV, History Vault, Lifetime Movie Club, Hallmark Movies Now, Here TV and Kidstream.
This year’s event offers thousands of hours of multicultural content with access to services such as KOCOWA, the video streaming platform that specializes in delivering mainstream Korean TV dramas, variety shows and K-Pop shows; Brown Sugar, featuring one of the largest collections of African American movies; and Pantaya, which features one of the largest and most varied selections of Spanish-language movies on a single service.
Where to watch Girl in the Box: Is the 2016 movie streaming on Netflix? hitc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hitc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Honor Tyson by streaming her film, TV work By Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times
Published: February 15, 2021, 6:03am
Share: Cicely Tyson arrives at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 20, 2009, in Los Angeles. (Matt Sayles/Associated Press)
The late Cicely Tyson’s body of work, which spanned 1951 to 2020, is a rich mix of roles in film, television and theater, with an emphasis on portrayals that uplifted the Black community as well as a fair share of skimpy parts that wasted her ample talent.
“I’m a woman and I’m Black,” she once told the Bergen Record. “I wait for roles first, to be written for a woman and then, to be written for a Black woman. And then I have the audacity to be selective about the kind of roles I play. ”