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Disney+ adoption skyrockets as Netflix maintains grip on streaming The report found that Disney+ has skyrocketed to 25% adoption among US broadband households after just six months in the market. Apple TV+, which launched around the same time, has reached nearly 10% adoption. Disney+ and Apple TV+ are fourth and fifth, respectively, among SVOD services adopted by consumers. Just more than four-fifths of Disney+ customers subscribes to Netflix, as do 72% of Apple TV+ subscribers. - Joseph O'Halloran, Rapid TV News » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Streaming Tony Award Celebration Postponed Amidst National Unrest A streaming Broadway-themed fundraising special scheduled to air on Sunday, June 7 – the night that originally had been set for the annual Tony Awards – has been postponed in the wake of national unrest over the police killing of George Floyd. “We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter,” said an exec producer of the special. - Greg Evans, Deadline Hollywood » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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WWE Launches Free Version of WWE Network The free WWE Network went live on Monday morning and more than 15,000 title are available to watch. This includes episodes of Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown. - Charlie Ridgely, ComicBook.com » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Netflix Supports Black Lives Matter Amid George Floyd Protests Netflix stood in solidarity with nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd on Saturday by sharing on its social accounts the "duty to our Black members, employees, creators and talent to speak up." - Sharareh Drury, The Hollywood Reporter » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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‘Cobra Kai’ Closing In On New Streaming Home With YouTube Poised To Release Hit Series Ahead Of Season 3 YouTube’s flagship scripted series Cobra Kai will be moving to a new streaming platform for its upcoming third season. The Google-owned online video service is in the process of releasing Season 3 of the popular show to producing studio Sony Pictures TV amid a retreat from premium original scripted programming. - Nellie Andreeva, Deadline Hollywood » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Lucifer's Tom Ellis Officially on Board for Potential Season 6 at Netflix Following protracted negotiations that imperiled a potential sixth season of Lucifer at Netflix, titular leading man Tom Ellis has formally inked a new deal with the show, sources confirm to TVLine exclusively. - Michael Ausiello, TVLine » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Kingdom Hearts TV Show Reportedly Coming to Disney+ - IGN Emre Kaya, writer for The Cinema Spot, tweeted that Disney originally had plans to make the show, but duties apparently shifted to Square Enix. The company has reportedly created a pilot episode using the Unreal Engine, the software used to build the video games. - Matt Purslow, IGN » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Is Hulu Leaving Roku? The Hulu app will only be unavailable on a handful of older Roku devices, which means that any streaming player, streaming stick, or Roku TV purchased since 2013 (models 3500 and later) will stream Hulu. For the full list of Hulu supported Roku devices, head to Hulu’s Help Center. - Claire Spellberg, Decider » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Apple To Team With Paramount On Scorsese-DiCaprio-De Niro Drama ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ The deal, which calls for Apple to finance and become the creative studio, gives the movie a hybrid situation and the best of both worlds. The film will get a wide theatrical release through Paramount before it becomes the biggest film title so far on Apple’s streaming service. A big priority was for this to be a large scale Western and that was important to Scorsese, DiCaprio, De Niro and the film’s producers Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas at Imperative. - Mike Fleming jr, Deadline Hollywood » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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US viewing behaviour shifts continue as Covid-19 lockdown continues The analyst found that when it comes to viewing entertainment through devices like streaming boxes/sticks and smart TVs, the “big five” streaming services — Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Disney+ — accounted for the majority of total over-the-top (OTT) hours streamed in US homes, upwards of 80%. Over the last two months, Comscore says that it has seen growth in share of streaming hours through the week beginning 11 May compared with that of 3 February. - Joseph O'Halloran, Rapid TV News » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Netflix Looks to Save Itself from Viacom's Poaching Suit In a summary judgment motion on Tuesday, the streamer also maintains that Viacom's unfair competition claim fails as duplicative, and that the CBS All Access owner is not entitled to any sort of injunction that would prevent Netflix from poaching employees. - Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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‘Fraggle Rock’ Reboot Gets Series Order At Apple Fraggle Rock: Rock On! mini-episodes feature special guests Alanis Morissette, Common, Jason Mraz, Neil Patrick Harris, Tiffany Haddish, and Ziggy Marley. The shorts focus on how we are all connected through friendship in the era of social distancing. While the Fraggles might be in different parts of the Fraggle Rock caves, they still find ways to have fun together with music, silliness, special guests and of course the help of Doozertubes, devices created by the industrious Doozers. - Denise Petski, Deadline Hollywood » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Haystack TV Launches Live, Interactive News Ticker On Its Roku Streaming App The “Newsline” crawl emulates the ticker scrolling across the bottom of the screen of 24/7 cable news networks. But because the programming is being delivered via the internet, viewers can use their remote controls to engage with stories that catch their interest, helping make their news feeds more personalized. - Dade Hayes, Deadline Hollywood » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Spotify Launches Crackdown on Tools Offering Premium Service For Free * TorrentFreak In many cases this means users obtaining a hacked variant of the Spotify software, often on the Android platform. These applications don’t subject users to adverts and in some cases claim to enable other features such as unlimited track skipping and a departure from enforced shuffling. - Andy, TorrentFreak » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Netflix Users Have Fewest Technical Problems of Any Streaming Service, Study Finds Netflix users reported just 0.07 technical problems per hour of content streamed on average, according to a J.D. Power April 24-26 survey of U.S. streaming users. - Todd Spangler, Variety » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Pornhub Getting Takedown Notices After Sex Scenes From Hulu Show Got Posted The video compilation of Normal People’s sex scenes reportedly surfaced last week and the folks at Hulu and BBC immediately issued a takedown notice. - Mae Abdulbaki, CinemaBlend » https://ift.tt/188j1lX

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Jon Stewart’s Political Comedy ‘Irresistible’ to Debut on Demand “Irresistible,” written and directed by Stewart, stars Steve Carell and Rose Byrne. It follows a Democrat political consultant (Carell) who helps a retired Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) run for mayor in a small right-wing Wisconsin town. However, he’s thrown a curve ball after the Republican National Committee sends in his nemesis (Byrne) to lead the opposition. - Rebecca Rubin, Variety » https://ift.tt/188j1lX