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Netflix and Fiction Valley have started production on a Dutch feature film written by Golden Calf winning duo, Shady El-Hamus (De Libi, Nightshade) and Jeroen Scholten van Aschat (De Libi, Fenix). Shady El-Hamus will also direct the film.
Nexstar has announced that total users of its websites and mobile applications in April increased 133% from the same time period a year earlier, to more than 96 million, generating more than 1.1 billion page views, up 250% from April 2019.
The Washington Post will air special live coverage of the SpaceX launch scheduled for May 27th, which will be the first time NASA astronauts will be launched into space from the United States since 2011 and the first crewed flight by a private company.
Fox Nation will roll out a new slate of adventure programming for the month of June, including an acquisition of the hit series Duck Dynasty.
WarnerMedia has announced a robust slate of new distribution agreements that will make HBO Max, the company’s highly anticipated streaming platform, widely available to customers at launch later this month.
Family, friends, and classmates can now watch and listen to BBC programmes together even when they’re apart, with BBC Together, a new experiment from BBC Research & Development.
As COVID-19 changed the world, audiences turned to CNN for its global coverage in March and April 2020, registering the largest audience numbers in history.
Fox News Digital finished the month of April with double digit increases versus the prior year across all key performance indicators, including multiplatform views (a 26 percent increase from April 2019), multiplatform minutes (a 19 percent increase from April 2019) and multiplatform unique visitors (a 20 percent increase from April 2019), according to Comscore.
The Walt Disney Company, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller and Thomas Kail have confirmed that Disney+ will fast-track the premiere of the filmed version of the original Broadway production of "Hamilton".
