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Amazon Nabs Jack Ryan Series From Michael Bay, Carlton Cuse
photo: Shutterstock/REX, Variety [Amazon] has landed the TV show based on the hard-charging character created by novelist Tom Clancy in the 1980s. “Lost” alum Graham Roland and Carlton Cuse are...
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DirecTV, U-verse Negotiations with Station Groups Stretch Into the Night
photo: Getty Images, Variety The contract battles over the carriage fees paid for the right to retransmit local stations come at a time of disruption for the players on both sides of the negotiating...
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TuneIn Adds Every NFL Game to Its Paid Premium Tier
photo: dean bertoncelj/Shutterstock, Variety Premium subscribers now have access to live play-by-play coverage of all NFL games, from preseason games all the way to the Super Bowl. The NFL is also...
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Amazon Grabs Streaming Rights to E! Drama ‘The Royals’
photo: E!, Variety Amazon has acquired exclusive SVOD rights to “The Royals,” […] Amazon will make the first season of the Lionsgate TV/Universal Cable Prods. series available for streaming as of...
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CNN Launches ‘Great Big Story’ Streaming-Video Hub To Battle Vice and BuzzFeed
photo: CNN, Variety CNN said Tuesday it had funded the launch of Great Big Story, billed as a “socially distributed video network” that will make available newsy video stories for a generation that...
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Disney to Launch Subscription Streaming Service in U.K.
photo: Disney/Pixar, Variety The service, DisneyLife, will make available a wide range of titles, including the complete Disney Pixar catalog, which includes the “Toy Story” franchise, and classics...
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Netflix Will Stream ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’— But Only in Canada
photo: Disney, Variety The reason Netflix will be able to offer the much-anticipated movie in Canada next year — and not in the U.S. or anywhere else — has to do with the timing of when Disney’s...
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Streaming Series ‘Jessica Jones,’‘High Castle’ Shake Up Fall TV
photo: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix “The Man in the High Castle” debuted its “What If” trailer this week, landing the series on this week’s Cable and Trending leaderboards. The new trailer, which racked up...
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Netflix Poised To Expand Into Middle East (Report)
photo: Netflix, Variety [Netflix] has posted job ads for marketing and social media manager positions in the Middle East and Joris Evers, vice president and head of communications for Europe, Middle...
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Amazon Removes All Apple TV, Chromecast Listings From Its Website
photo: Amazon/Google, Variety Amazon has followed through on its plans to go nuclear on its competitors: The company removed all listings of Apple’s Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast streaming adapter...
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