Topic: Starz
It's got to be bitter to lose a contract to your old business partner. That's what happened to Netflix yesterday when Starz won a deal over the streaming-and-delivery service with Sony…
History will not be repeating itself this year. The cable network, which has increased market share while hanging on to a majority-male viewership, is taking big swings in 2013, as huge…
Ahead of its final season of flagship show Spartacus, Starz is trying something new: a vast suite of second-screen applications called The Battle for Nuceria—social-media based mini-games, content starring the…
Specs Who Back row (l. to r.): Dan Pappalardo, ecd, co-founder; Gil Haslam, cd, sports; Whit Friese, cd, entertainment marketing; Dale Everett, cd, brand design. Front row (l. to r.): Reid…
So, anything good on cable on Sunday night in April? Well, let’s see. There’s HBO’s Game of Thrones, Veep and Girls; AMC’s Mad Men and The Killing; Lifetime’s Army Wives…
Netflix stock slumped in after-hours trading late today after Starz Entertainment announced that it will not renew its distribution deal with the movie rental website when its contract expires in…
TNT has re-upped the underwhelming freshman buddy dramedy Franklin & Bash for a second season, ordering up another run of 10 episodes. The series, which stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer…
Two weeks after announcing an upcoming 60 percent hike in subscription fees, Netflix is getting ready to face the fallout in the third quarter. In yesterday’s earnings report for the second…
Last Friday, more than 250 Sony Pictures films disappeared from the Netflix online streaming service. But it's not just Sony or Netflix that's to blame—as it turns out, the movies…
Miramax and Starz have both been in deal-making mode to give video streaming services Hulu and Netflix access to their content libraries. Just two weeks after signing a deal with Netflix,…
