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  • Freesat launches new < free time > box

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    Freesat, the BBC and ITV backed free-to-air digital satellite platform, has unveiled a white version of its new box. Launched last September as a rival YouView, combines live channels with a backwards EPG and catch-up content from selected providers. Although the service launched with the promise of catch-up players from BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and…

  • BBC sells Lonely Planet for £80m loss

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    The BBC’s commercial arm has sold its Lonely Planet travel publishing guide for £51.5m, £80m less than it paid for company. BBC Worldwide bought 75% of Lonely Planet in 2007 for £88.1m and four years later paid a further £42.17m for the remaining 25%. The acquisition was hugely controversial with rival publishers as the company…

  • Evil Dead – new image

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    Studiocanal has released this terrifying image from Fede Alvarez’s highly anticipated remake of cult horror Evil Dead. Holed up in a remote cabin, five twenty-something friends discover a Book of the Dead and unwittingly summon dormant demons living in the nearby woods. One by one the friends are possessed until only one is left intact…

  • txtr launches Windows 8 ereading app

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    txtr has released a multi-language Windows 8 ereading app with full support for Adobe DRM. The company was the first to launch Adobe DRM based reading apps for iOS and Android and recently unveiled a new, low-cost ereader called the Beagle. The free Windows 8 app allows users in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian…

  • June DVD and Blu-ray release for Song for Marion

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    Song for Marion, the heart-warming story about the celebration of life, comes to DVD and Blu-ray on June 24th and is available for pre-order from Amazon.co.uk. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave, Terrence Stamp, Gemma Arterton and Christopher Eccleston and follows shy, grumpy pensioner Arthur (Stamp) as he is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion…

  • Robson Green and Martin Clunes join Sky 1’s Strike Back

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    Robson Green, Martin Clunes, and Dougray Scott are to join the cast of Sky 1’s action series Strike Back. The trio will join series regulars Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Rhona Mitra, Michelle Lukes and Liam Garrigan for the fourth series which sees Section 20 pursue a deadly terrorist network from Colombia to Beirut to Europe.…