ITV has announced the VIP guests who will join Jonathan Ross as he hosts Oscars LIVE, as for the first time in almost two decades UK viewers can watch the ceremony completely free and exclusively on ITV1 and ITVX. From 10.15pm on March 10th on ITV1 and ITVX actor Richard Armitage, actor, film critic and […]

Female-fronted movies are proving most popular in the UK ahead of The Oscars ceremony, according to data from advertising technology firm Quantcast. However, Oppenheimer is widely expected to scoop the big prize, pointing at a disparity between what captures the imagination and the critics’ choice. The insight shows that if The Oscars were based on […]

Coming off 11 Academy Award nominations  and 5 BAFTA Award wins, Disney+ has announced that Poor Things will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+ in the UK on March 7th.  From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the fantastical tale of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant […]

Do films with certain characteristics tend to get nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards? Nielsen’s Gracenote ran an analysis to answer this question tapping its descriptive metadata around entertainment content.Among other characteristics, the taxonomy of Gracenote Video Descriptors cover 294 different Video Moods organised hierarchically from broad, high-level concepts (Level 1) to more […]

For the second week in a row, F. Gary Gray’s action heist thriller Lift was the most watched Netflix title of the week, staying on top of the English Films List with 36.7 million views. The film, starring Kevin Hart, reached the Top 10 in 93 countries in the week commencing January 15th. New dystopian […]

For the first time in nearly two decades, UK viewers can tune-in to the Oscars ceremony completely free and exclusively on ITV with a raft of programming to celebrate the event. On the night itself, March 10th, at 10.30pm viewers can join Jonathan Ross live on ITV1 and ITVX as he hosts the ultimate Oscars […]

On December 8th, ITVX will mark its first anniversary. ITV has taken a look back at its inaugural year and all the new streaming platform has achieved, plus a look at what’s coming in 2024 and beyond. ITV says ITVX was “undoubtedly this year’s biggest and most successful streaming launch in the UK” with over […]

ITV has announced, as part of a new multi-year deal with Disney Entertainment, that it will be unrolling the red carpet to homes across the UK as the exclusive partner for the 96th Oscars, which will take place on March 10th 2024. The ceremony will broadcast and stream live from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation […]

Sky has not picked up the rights to show the world’s biggest movie awards ceremony in the UK following a 20-year run. Sky won the rights from the BBC and most recently showed the ceremony across four channels: a dedicated Sky Cinema Oscars channel, Sky Showcase, Sky Arts and Sky News, along with streaming service […]

The BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated An Irish Goodbye is to receive its television premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC Northern Ireland. The short film is available now on BBC iPlayer and will be broadcast on BBC One NI on March 12th at 10.30pm, just ahead of the 95th Academy Awards, where is it nominated in the […]