TV

Netflix’s next potential customers may be on the Pirate Bay right now, looking for a copy of the latest season of Arrested Development: Copies of the show went up on various torrent sites just hours after Netflix released all 15 episodes of the fourth season on Saturday night in its entirety. Around 100,000 people have Continue Reading →

Allow me to start with a personal declaration: As a media researcher who has tracked the word of mouth generated by many advertising campaigns, I am excited by the impending launch of social TV ratings. Slated to come on stream in Q4 this year, social TV ratings should catapult the concept of TV audience ratings Continue Reading →

As you dive into the Memorial Day weekend on Friday, May 24, Verizon FiOS TV customers can get ready for a true TV watching marathon, with more than 1,700 free movies and over 50 full seasons of TV series from a variety of networks, including NBC, Chicago Fire, Smash, The Voice, Grimm, BBC America, HGTV, Continue Reading →

We’re just a few days away from the long-awaited fourth season of Arrested Development, one of the most high-profile Netflix original series to be released. Ted Sarandos, the man behind the company’s ever-burgeoning original content strategy, just sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about Netflix’ strategy and what you can expect in the Continue Reading →

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage in Manhattan this morning to talk with a crowd of the biggest advertisers and brands from Madison Avenue. He brought up a slide of a recent tweet, featuring a picture of race cars spinning out of control. “Usually when there is a crash at the Daytona 500 the Continue Reading →

Best Buy started offering the high-end Sony 4K Ultra High Definition TV sets in 700 of its U.S. stores on Sunday in an effort to shake up the stagnant TV category. The TVs — which have 8.3 million pixels compared with the 2.1 million pixels on regular high-definition TVs — are purported to have four Continue Reading →

Microsoft unveiled its next video game console, the Xbox One, on Tuesday. Unlike Sony, which spent two hours at its PlayStation 4 reveal in February showing just about everything BUT the console, Microsoft put the console, its re-designed controller and updated Kinect camera at the heart of its presentation. Microsoft said that the Xbox One Continue Reading →

Wired magazine declared that we are witnessing “The Platinum Age of TV” in its April cover story. This boom time for quality TV, it says, is powered by a “hyper-social, data-driven” approach to new show creation and promotion. “It all adds up to a potentially thrilling new era for television, one that values shows that spark Continue Reading →

It’s time to brush up on your Klingon, Star Trek fans. Search engine Bing has just added the official language of the series to its language translator. Now, you can translate words from English into Klingon — or the other way around. The addition comes just days before the arrival of J.J. Abram’s Star Trek Continue Reading →

Time Warner’s TNT and TBS are joining the parade of networks offering a live linear feed of their channels online for viewers on the go. “Starting this summer, subscribers will be able to watch TBS and TNT live — anytime, anywhere, on multiple devices,” Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks, said at the Turner Continue Reading →