Netflix

  • Netflix unveils new ‘big screen’ look

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    Streaming TV service Netflix has launched a new look which it says offers viewers “a much richer and more immersive experience” With the service now available on increasingly higher numbers of TVs, set top boxes and Blu-ray players, the new design has been created specifically for the big screen. The new design features multiple cinematic…

  • Marvel to make four superhero live-action series for Netflix

    Marvel to make four superhero live-action series for Netflix

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    Disney’s Marvel has announced a deal to make four live-action series exclusively for Netflix. The deal includes four thirteen-episode series focused on Daredevil followed by Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage culminating with a The Defenders mini-series about a dream team of self-sacrificing, heroic characters. The dramas will be produced by Marvel Television in…

  • Sky takes the fight to Netflix & Lovefilm by making premium TV cheaper

    Sky takes the fight to Netflix & Lovefilm by making premium TV cheaper

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    Three months ago Sky won a rush of excited headlines when it released the NOW TV box – an internet connected box which allows access to iPlayer, Vevo and Sky’s movie and sports content – for just £9.99. Today the broadcaster announced another headline-grabbing bargain – access to Sky 1, Sky Living and Sky Atlantic…

  • Virgin Media adds Netflix to TiVo

    Virgin Media adds Netflix to TiVo

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    Virgin Media customers will soon be able to access Netflix’s catalogue of TV shows and films. The cable company has partnered with the US streaming service to offer its content via an app on the TiVo set top boxes. When Virgin first launched the TiVo in 2010, its management boasted of “hundreds” of apps appearing…

  • The Hobbit now available on Netflix UK

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    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic book, is now available to watch on Netflix UK. The film is set sixty years before The Lord of the Rings and follows the journey of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) who finds himself caught up in an epic quest to reclaim the lost…

  • Netflix adds Disney films to UK and Irish library

    Netflix adds Disney films to UK and Irish library

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    Movie and TV streaming service Netflix has announced a deal to bring some of Disney’s biggest live-action and animated films to members in the UK and Ireland The deal means customers can get instant access to Disney and Disney•Pixar favourites including Ratatouille, Wall-E, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the…