Category: Media & Entertainment

  • Gemma Collins joyfully jumps into her specialist subject – herself

    Celebrity anthology show Everything I Know About Me returns with the Towie star as its focus. Plus: five shows hosted by master podcasters • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The UK’s most prestigious awards for radio and audio took place this week, with Rob Burrow picking up two significant…

  • NBCUniversal Local’s news channels on Pluto TV

    NBCUniversal and Pluto have announced that NBCUniversal Local’s 15 NBC and Telemundo local and regional streaming news channels will begin rolling out on Pluto TV in the US this May, starting immediately with five channels covering major markets. Pluto TV customers across the US will begin gaining access to 24/7 news coverage, weather, investigative and…

  • Sky unveils Sky Sports+

    Sky has announced it will launch Sky Sports+ this August, a service it says will be “transformational in the amount of choice sports fans will have access to via live streams, the mobile app and a dedicated new channel, all at no extra cost”. With more coverage from the English Football League (EFL), both tennis…

  • RTL Q1 boosted by ad revenues, streaming

    RTL Group has reported that group revenue was up 2.6 per cent YoY to €1.31 billion, mainly driven by higher TV advertising revenue and streaming revenue at RTL Deutschland, partly offset by lower Fremantle revenue. Group revenue was up 4.1 per cent organically. RTL Group’s total advertising revenue increased by 10.1 per cent YoY to…

  • ‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter

    A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…

  • ‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter

    A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…

  • ‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter

    A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…

  • ‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter

    A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…

  • ‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter

    A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…

  • ‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter

    A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…