Bono and the boys are headed into the studio for a one-off music entertainment show, U2 At The BBC. The hour-long special is set to air on BBC One in December, hosted by Cat Deeley, and recorded at Abbey Road Studios. BBC Studios is producing. Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton will perform some of their…

The UK's Channel 4 has taken a minority stake in sports production company Whisper Films. The acquisition is through C4's Growth Fund. Founded by Sunil Patel, David Coulthard and Jake Humphrey in 2010, Whisper Films has built a slate of sports-related programming including films for global brands within Formula 1 such…

The companies are talking as both plan potentially game-changing online product launches, International Business Times reports today. The news lifted Time Warner shares in late trading. According to the report, HBO — working with Major League Baseball Advanced Media — plans to introduce its widely anticipated online…

Don’t jump to the conclusion that Time Warner just fulfilled cord cutters’ dreams. In his Investor Day presentation to Wall Street today, HBO chief Richard Plepler said that his unit will launch a stand-alone service next year — meaning it will be available online to people who don’t buy pay TV. But he carefully…

In 2015 a standalone, over-the-top HBO Go service will launch in the the U.S, HBO Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler just confirmed, in a move that had been in the wind for some time. There are 80 million homes that do not have HBO, and "we will use all measures to go after them," Plepler said during his network’s…

HBO‘s online platform could also offer videos from Time Warner‘s Turner networks, Warner Bros, “and, frankly, other networks,” CEO Jeff Bewkes told analysts today. “Should offerings be determined for consumers based on what a company owns?” he asked rhetorically. “That's not how consumers arrange their dial….We’re…

It’s happening again. After viewer demand for the True Detective finale overwhelmed HBO’s streaming service last month, HBO Go customers took to the Web again tonight to complain that they can’t access the fourth season premiere. Like it did with the True Detective finale, HBO Go’s Twitter account acknowledged the…

Time Warner‘s premium channel is approaching the point where a change would pay off, but there’s no need to hurry, according to data from an online survey of 2,501 adults out today from Morgan Stanley’s Benjamin Swinburne. Some 44% of broadband-only subscribers in the poll say that they’d be willing to pay a monthly…

The demand for tonight’s season finale of HBO‘s True Detective was so great online, the network’s streaming service HBO GO temporarily crashed trying to fulfill all incoming requests for the closing episode. “Due to overwhelmingly popular demand for #TrueDetective, we’ve been made aware of an issue affecting some…

The content choices just became more interesting for Google’s hot-selling $35 thumb-drive-sized dongle that brings Web content to TV sets. HBO GO pretty much had to make itself available on Chromecast: Users already can watch Netflix and Hulu Plus. The change means that HBO subscribers who have WiFi and Chromecast can…

CUPERTINO, California—June 19, 2013—Apple today announced that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available directly on Apple TV joining the great lineup of programming offered to customers. iTunes users have downloaded more than one billion TV episodes and 380 million movies from iTunes to date, and they are purchasing…

“We have the rights to do it and we would do it if we thought it was in our economic best interest,” Jeff Bewkes says this morning. But the potential market for a stand-alone HBO streaming service in the U.S. is “not sufficiently big enough now.” HBO chief Richard Plepler in March raised some consumers’ hopes that…