CNN Taps Executives For New Streaming Service To Launch Next Year

Naman Ramachandran Former Disney Plus and Netflix executive Matt Brodlie and ex-Sierra/Affinity president Jonathan Kier have teamed to launch Los Angeles-based Upgrade Productions. The duo will serve as co-presidents.With backing from German powerhouse Constantin Film and a strategic partnership with Bron, Upgrade will develop and produce premium local language productions for a global audience.

The Adult Disability Payment (ADP) is a new benefit scheduled to be delivered by Social Security Scotland next year that will replace Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for Scottish claimants.

HBO has ordered a new weekly late night series starring journalist Bomani Jones, who will break down timely issues in sports.

AMBIENCE: BEST OF BRITISH New British cruise line Ambassador enters the market next April with a newly refurbished ship, Ambience. Sailing from London Tilbury to the Baltic, Black Sea, the Med and Norwegian Fjords, Ambience is primarily aimed at over-50s.

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg (“Naked Lunch,” “Eastern Promises”) is considered by many as one of the boldest and innovative genre directors and has been working for more than 40 years. Next year will seemingly see Cronenberg’s return to the world of sci-fi with his latest film “Crimes of The Future” expected to be released at some point in 2022.

Music is such a dominant part of culture, with it now being unusual to go anywhere without headphones.

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Amazon have launched their free IMDb TV streaming service in the UK.The service, which is related to the film/TV industry database IMDb, launched three years ago in the US as a free service supported by advertising.The new UK version is currently available via Amazon Prime Video – though a subscription to Amazon Prime is not required to access the service – and it will soon be available as a standalone app via Fire TV.Alongside a host of the service’s own productions, the likes of Pulp Fiction,

K.J. Yossman Amazon has launched ad-based streaming service IMDb TV in the U.K.

“I would far prefer this adventure to go on for 10, 20 years, but that’s not the way corporate America works,” outgoing WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar admitted today.

CNN has tapped marketing professor Scott Galloway to host a show for its upcoming subscription streaming service, CNN+, set to debut in the first quarter of 2022.

Daily Mail) that the search for the next James Bond won’t begin until 2022.“Oh, God no,” Broccoli said on the program when asked if they’ve already decided who’s playing Bond after Craig. “We’re not thinking about it at all.

007 Producer Barbara Broccoli has said she will not begin thinking about who will replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond until 2022.

Whenever Frances McDormand brought up the notion of her husband and frequent collaborator Joel Coendirecting her in her dream role of Lady Macbeth, he demurred – bluntly. “He said absolutely not,” she recalled; “I had no interested in theater,” he explained, and that was that.

TikTok reportedly have made plans to launch a new music streaming service in China.ByteDance, who own the popular video app, are set to launch the new service, which currently goes by the name Feilo, later this year.According to Chinese outlet 36Kr, work on the app began in 2019, and is the brainchild of Alex Zhu, ByteDance’s Vice President of Product and Strategy.The reported development of Felio comes just one year after ByteDance’s launch of another music streaming platform in India called

CBS News is changing the name of its CBSN streaming service to simply “CBS News.”

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBSN represented the first effort by one of the traditional broadcast networks to get into the news streaming game, and its name was meant to evoke digital concepts. But that was so 2014.CBS News intends to phase out the CBSN moniker later this year and give its streaming effort the same identity its other products have: CBS News.