Noggin Preschool Streaming Service Shut Down By Paramount

A pioneer in digital content creation is going away. Rooster Teeth, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming & Interactive Entertainment, announced this morning that it is ceasing operations after 21 years. The process starts today and is expected to take several months.

TalkTV, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, is set to go off air in the summer, just two years after its launch. This decision comes after Piers Morgan left TalkTV and moved his show, Uncensored, to YouTube for good. Scott Taunton, the President of broadcasting for TalkTV, has announced plans to move the channel online.

An actress who played an Oompa Loompa at a disastrous Willy Wonka event that went viral has revealed she wanted to walk out of the 'immersive' experience in Glasgow. The Oompa Loompa actress broke her silence about the widely-criticised Willy Wonka chocolate factory event as she appeared on Good Morning Britain on Friday alongside a fellow actress.The events company, which promised a world of pure imagination, has since cancelled the show after parents, who paid £35 a ticket, turned up to find a sparse warehouse.

Sky users, listen up! You can now get Sky and Netflix completely free if you try out a new way to watch TV. It's not often that you get something for nothing, but that's exactly what's on offer right now. Sky is giving away its premium channels and full access to Netflix for free.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Kino Lorber’s MHz Choice and Topic will merge into one streaming service, parent company Kino Lorber announced Thursday. The combined product will become the exclusive U.S. streaming home of hit German series “Babylon Berlin” in April.

Bobby Brazier has put an end to rumours that he'll be joining Celebrity Big Brother with a sharp two-word response. The 20 year old actor, who recently appeared on EastEnders and then Strictly Come Dancing, has been the subject of speculation about whether he'll join other celebs in the Big Brother house on Monday, with the lineup yet to be revealed. Bobby, whose mum Jade Goody became famous after appearing on the 2002 series of the show, was asked if he'd ever consider taking part.

Fox Corp. streaming service Tubi has updated its brand identity, with a new logo whose letters are designed to echo the company’s invitation to viewers to “find your rabbit hole.”

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Paramount+, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, and 101 Studios are teaming for a new series loosely based on the hit Showtime series “Ray Donovan.” Titled “The Donovans,” the series will be fully written by Ronan Bennett with Guy Ritchie attached to direct and executive produce. It will be available to Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers later this year.

“I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice,” Patrick Swayze’s James Dalton says in the original Road House from 1989.

Bradley Walsh didn’t share the same feelings as viewers about a recent contestant on The Chase.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege creative director Alexander Karpazis has shut down talk of a sequel to the online tactical shooter.Despite being released in 2015, Rainbow Six Siege still has a huge playerbase, with over 100,000 concurrent players logging in over the weekend (via SteamDB) and regular updates from Ubisoft. However, Karpazis has no interest in a sequel.​​”I can confidently say that we have probably one of the best engines in the world when it comes to live PvP shooters,” he said at the 2024 Sieve International in Brazil [via PC Gamer].

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Whoopi Goldberg, famed EGOT and business mogul, is adding another entry to her résumé: streaming entrepreneur. Goldberg is an equity investor in Blkfam, billed as the first and only Black-owned and Black-focused family streaming platform. The free, ad-supported service launches Feb.

In the latest sign of difficulty for niche streaming, Warner Bros. Discovery is shifting programming from its MotorTrend+ streaming service onto Max and Discovery+ and will shut down the stand-alone auto enthusiast app.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor It’s the end of the road for Warner Bros. Discovery‘s MotorTrend+ automotive streaming service. The media company announced that MotorTrend+ will be shut down after content from the service is fully migrated to Discovery+ and Max at the end of March.

Kelly Rowland is on a press tour promoting her Netflix film Mea Culpa and was asked about Beyoncé‘s new country album and the possibility of a Destiny’s Child reunion.

Squid Game.Sarandos recently visited the headquarters of Netflix Korea, located in the heart of Seoul, South Korea. During a press conference held during his visit, the Netflix CEO shut down rumours that an American remake of Squid Game is in the works.“That’s just a rumour,” he said, according to South Korean news outlet SBS Star.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Noggin, Nickelodeon’s interactive learning platform for preschool-age kids, is shutting down after almost 10 years, Variety has confirmed. Noggin is a casualty of Paramount Global’s companywide layoffs this week, which resulted in about 800 staffers being let go. The entire team that ran Noggin was laid off, as first reported by trade publication Kisdscreen.

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s new collaborative album ‘Vultures 1’ may soon be removed from streaming services after not being approved by its distributor.The album was released to streaming last Saturday (February 10) and serves as the first part of a three-volume project.However, according to Billboard, the distributor that appears to have delivered the record to the platforms did so without the company being aware of it.The company in question, FUGA, said: “Late last year, FUGA was presented with the opportunity to release Vultures 1. Exercising our judgment in the ordinary course of business, we declined to do so.”“On Friday, February 9, 2024, a long-standing FUGA client delivered the album Vultures 1 through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Downey Jr. made headlines earlier this month when he revealed that he first met his “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan back in the early 2000s in order to nab the role of Scarecrow in the director’s 2005 superhero tentpole “Batman Begins.” Downey said Nolan wasn’t too interested in casting him, which Nolan fully admitted in a recent interview with the actor for The New York Times. “I 100% knew you weren’t the guy [for Scarecrow],” said Nolan, who eventually cast his “Oppenheimer” leading man Cillian Murphy as the Batman villain.

Dakota Johnson has shared her opinions on the state of the film industry, particularly regarding streaming services.Speaking with L’Officiel, Johnson, who has been promoting her new movie Madame Web, shared: “I am discovering that it’s really fucking bleak in this industry. It is majorly disheartening.”She continued: “The people who run streaming platforms don’t trust creative people or artists to know what’s going to work, and that is just going to make us implode.”The Fifty Shades Of Grey star added: “It’s really heartbreaking.