According to The Wall Street Journal, YouTube plans to launch a hub for ad-supported channels, similar to Roku Channel or Fox's Tubi. Currently, YouTube is testing out the hub with a small number of users, and negotiating with studios and media companies about licensing their content. More: - The move would likely make Google's platform a major player in the so-called Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (or FAST) market overnight.
- YouTube also offers ad-supported movies; the new hub will significantly expand this offering.
- WSJ suggests YouTube's approach will be similar to Paramount's Pluto TV, which offers dedicated "channels" for reruns of popular shows, along with a variety of reality series, live news, and sports.
- Google recently struck a deal with the National Football League for the streaming rights to the "Sunday Ticket" franchise.
- YouTube already controls the largest share of TV viewing time among US streaming services, with around 8.8% of the total.
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 Apple's "Super League: The War for Football" Rumors published by the British newspaper Daily Mail indicate that Apple plans to bid for English Premier League soccer streaming rights. The current three-year deal with Sky Sports and BT Sport expires in 2025. More: - The deal will apparently cost Apple around $250 million per year for US streaming rights only; the UK rights will likely run in the billions.
- Unlike Major League Soccer (MLS) in the US, Premier League streams are offered in various packages, so no one broadcaster or streamer controls all the rights.
- In addition to streaming MLS games in the US, Apple is the home of the soccer-themed sitcom "Ted Lasso" and recently produced a docuseries on never-realized plans for a "European Super League."
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 Variety reports that Amazon plans to part ways with TV personality Jeremy Clarkson following his controversial public comments about Meghan Markle. Commissioned seasons of Clarkson's "The Grand Tour" and "Clarkson's Farm" have been completed and will stream on Amazon through 2024. More: - "Clarkson's Farm" will wrap up with a third season, set to stream in 2024; "The Grand Tour" will end after a run of four special episodes.
- In December, Clarkson published an editorial in the UK tabloid The Sun in which he suggested The Duchess of Sussex be forced to "parade naked" through the streets while "lumps of excrement" were thrown at her.
- Clarkson has apologized for his comments, which he said were written and published in haste, and intended as a humorous reference to HBO's "Game of Thrones."
- Prime Video took over the popular car-focused nonfiction series "Top Gear" in 2015 after the BBC cut ties with Clarkson, following a violent altercation with a producer; Amazon reimagined the series as "The Grand Tour."
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 Netflix's "La Casa de Papel" A new media analysis revealed that American content now makes up less than half of Netflix's library. Netflix doubled its output of Spanish-language originals in 2022, and added significantly more content from the UK and Japan as well. More: - Overall, Netflix posted about 300 additional hours of TV in 2022 vs. 2021.
- During that period, Spanish content jumped from 64 hours to 123, while Japanese content rose from 60 hours to 109.
- American-produced content rose by around 5%, to 801 hours total.
- Content from Korea largely leveled off in 2022, following the massive global success of "Squid Game"; Netflix added 93 hours of Korean programming in 2022, vs. 84 hours in 2021.
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 "Tell Me Lies" creator Meaghan Oppenheimer and producer Emma Roberts will reteam for the Hulu series "Second Wife." Roberts will also co-star in the darkly-comic half-hour series with "Lucifer" vet Tom Ellis. More: - The new romantic comedy-drama series features Roberts as an American who moves to London and falls for a recently divorced father (Ellis), whom she impulsively decides to marry.
- Oppenheimer will executive produce the series and also serve as showrunner.
- In real life, Oppenheimer and Ellis are a married couple; this marks their first-ever TV collaboration.
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 The action-comedy series "Die Hart" -- originally produced for Quibi -- has been licensed to Amazon, which plans to re-edit it into a film. The movie version of "Die Hart" hits Prime Video on February 24, and will even get a theatrical release in South Africa. More: - The series stars Kevin Hart as a fictionalized version of himself, who attends "action school" in order to become a more believable leading man.
- John Travolta co-stars as action movie expert Ron Wilcox.
- Series director and writer Eric Appel and Derek Kolstad personally oversaw the new film cut.
- The original series launched on Quibi in 2020, then was acquired by Roku, which is currently producing a follow-up season featuring John Cena, Ben Schwartz, and Paula Pell.
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- During an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," "Black Panther" star Danai Gurira teased a potential Disney+ spinoff series about her character, the Wakandan warrior Okoye.
- MGM+ chief Michael Wright spoke with Variety about rebranding the former Epix streaming service, and platform's future development slate.
- Netflix canceled the Neil Patrick Harris comedy series "Uncoupled" -- from "Sex and the City" vet Darren Star -- after just one season.
- Streaming winners at this year's Critics Choice Awards included Hulu's "The Dropout" (Best Limited Series), Apple's "Pachinko" (Best Foreign Language Series), Roku's "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" (Best Made-for-TV Movie), HBO Max's "Harley Quinn" (Best Animated Series), and Netflix's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" (Best Comedy Film and Best Acting Ensemble).
- YouTuber and "This Place Rules" filmmaker Andrew Callaghan responded to allegations of sexual misconduct in a four-minute video posted to his social media channels.
- Disney+ announced the documentary and concert special "Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, With Dave Letterman," debuting on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
- At the Television Critics Association winter press tour, producer Bryan Fuller teased early plans for Peacock's "Friday the 13th" reboot series, "Crystal Lake."
- USA and Syfy renewed the comic thriller series "Chucky" and "Reginald the Vampire" for new seasons.
- Though a fourth and final season of the post-apocalyptic drama series "Snowpiercer" has been produced, it won't air on the TNT cable network; Tomorrow Studios is currently shopping the season around to other networks and streamers, along with potential prequel and sequel projects.
- Subscribers to the European pay-TV provider Sky now get access to Discovery+ content at no additional charge.
- "The Last of Us" premiere featured a breakout performance from Nico Parker, the daughter of actor Thandiwe Newton.
- CW dropped new trailers for "Superman & Lois" Season 3 and the debut DC Comics series "Gotham Knights," along with a crossover "Super Knight" promo event.
- The "Magnum P.I." reboot moves to NBC this year after being canceled at CBS; the creative team vows the NBC version of the series will be "sexier" than its predecessor.
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 |  | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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