Short-form streaming service Quibi to close after six months

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNENT Group, the leading Nordic streaming company, is set to launch in Poland and the U.S. in 2021 and will roll out in five more European markets by the end of 2023.Viaplay, NENT Group’s streaming service, will be launched abroad as a tailored service offering premium Nordic drama series.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNENT Group, the leading Nordic streaming company, is set to launch in Poland and in the U.S. in 2021 and is planning to roll out in five more European markets by the end of 2023.

Zara McDermott has denied she's confirmed returning to film the next season of Made In Chelsea after rumours emerged she's back with Sam Thompson.The 23 year old took to her Instagram stories earlier today, 6 November, to announce it was the last day of filming the popular E4 show. Following reports claiming she's set to return next yet, she's now explained that she hasn't announced she'll be filming the next series with her co-stars or Sam.

Fortnite could be returning to iOS devices through Nvidia’s cloud gaming service.The game was pulled from the store back in August following a legal dispute between Apple and Epic Games.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAmid some skepticism from Wall Street, ViacomCBS executives spent most of the company’s third-quarter earnings call hawking its streaming capabilities and selling the investment community on Pluto TV, the rebranded Paramount Plus and its broader direct-to-consumer strategy.The company, which is coming up on its first-year anniversary of the merger between Viacom and CBS, also announced the sunsetting of its smaller streaming services, such as MTV Hits.

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Consider this mostly a well written out rumor right now, but this could have been a massive development in the cinematic world, had it all come to pass. Apparently, MGM had at least explored the possibility of selling their newest James Bond film, No Time to Die, to a streaming service.

LOS ANGELES -- Everyone's going to streaming, including Judge Judy. The broadcast TV staple's next act will be with IMDb TV, Amazon's free digital service.Judith Sheindlin, whose long-running syndicated courtroom show “Judge Judy” will end production in 2021, will be dispensing justice on an exclusive show in the U.S.

After raising nearly $2 billion in funding and promising to reinvent the way people consume entertainment programming, Quibi is shutting down. "It is with an incredibly heavy heart that today we are announcing that we are winding down the business and looking to sell its content and technology assets," Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman wrote in a public letterWednesday.

film makers are focusing on solving wedding invite list headaches during the pandemic - by live streaming the big day.

April launch, having struggled to find customers.The company said Wednesday that it would wind down its operations and plans to sell its assets.

Back in April, a little more than six months ago, everyone at Quibi thought they had the next big thing on their hands. The infant streaming service had earned $1.75 billion in capital and promised to revolutionize how people stream content, relying mostly on the idea that people want to watch “quick bite” content on their phones.

Discovery. led by CEO David Zaslav, said Tuesday that it will rebrand its dplay streaming service in the U.K.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAre we there yet?WarnerMedia is bringing its premium video programming to bored kids and other road-weary passengers through WarnerMedia Ride, a new video service for smartphones and tablets connected to in-car Wi-Fi hotspots connected to AT&T’s wireless network — available at no extra cost.Content in WarnerMedia Ride includes news and sports programming from Bleacher Report, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, CNN, TBS, TNT and other brands.

Rebecca Davis editorFox Entertainment streaming service Tubi announced a partnership with China’s Wanda Pictures on Monday, saying it will now stream at least two of the latter’s films in both Chinese-language and English-dubbed versions.The headlining film in the deal is Wanda’s “Detective Chinatown 2,” which currently reigns as China’s sixth-highest grossing movie of all time thanks to $541 million in local receipts. The title grossed a mere $2 million in North America.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorTubi has begun a content relationship with Chinese film and television studio Wanda Pictures, with two titles coming to the Fox-owned free streaming outlet.Original and exclusive English-dubbed versions of Detective Chinatown 2, which is No. 6 on China’s all-time box office chart, will be on Tubi soon in the U.S.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorEXCLUSIVE: Vanna Krantz, chief financial officer of Disney Streaming Services, will be named to the board of Skillz, the mobile e-sports platform that’s completing its merger with Harry Sloan’s Flying Eagle Acquisition Corp.