YouTube is going global with its premium content service, making it available in 12 new countries including the UK and Canada. The Google-owned company is also launching its YouTube Music service worldwide.
YouTube Premium, which was formerly known as YouTube Red, will launch in Austria, Finland, France, Germany…
Clerkenwell Films, the British production company behind teen sci-fi drama Misfits and Netflix and C4's The End of the Fxxxing World, is developing a scripted series based on the life of British entrepreneur Jamal Edwards.
Edwards, the founder of online video channel SBTV, which was responsible for helping the careers…
Following Martin Kove’s appearance in the Season 1 finale ofCobra Kai, the Karate Kid alum is joining the cast of YouTube Red’s Karate Kid followup as a series regular for its recently ordered second season. He will continue to reprise his villainous Karate Kid character of John Kreese.
In the critically praised…
Tyrant alum Keon Alexander has been tapped for a heavily recurring role in YouTube Red's upcoming action drama series Impulse, directed and executive produced by Doug Liman (Bourne Identity), from Universal Cable Productions and studio-based Hypnotic (Suits).
Based on the third novel in the Jumper series by Steven…
YouTube has ordered a second season of Karate Kid sequelCobra Kai. Starring Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, the 10-episode, half-hour series will begin production this fall and debut on YouTube Red in 2019.
The critically praised Cobra Kai, from Sony Pictures Television and Overbrook Entertainment, has been a hugely…
EXCLUSIVE: Dancing with the Stars winner Nicole Scherzinger, The Island's Bear Grylls and British comedian Jack Whitehall are among the celebrities appearing alongside viral stars The Sidemen in a YouTube Red series – one of the digital platform’s most high-profile orders from a UK production company.
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Two alums from the Harry Potter movie franchise, Natalia Tena and Tom Felton, along with newcomer Sen Mitsuji, are set to topline Origin, YouTube’s upcoming sci-fi thriller series. Paul W.S. Anderson(Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, AVP: Alien vs. Predator) is directing the first two episodes of the show, from The Cr…
EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Red has ordered a pilot for High & Tight, a baseball buddy comedy starring Sung Kang (Power, Fast Five) and Danny Pudi (Community, Powerless). Co-starring in the pilot, created and written by Chris Marrs (Arrested Development, Those Who Can't), are Virginia Williams (Fuller House) as well as Bruce…
Forever associated with his iconic Karate Kid character Daniel LaRusso, Ralph Macchio is all grown up and back in the dojo with YouTube Red’s new comedy series, Cobra Kai. Set 30 years after the memorable events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament, the series follows Karate Kid antagonist Johnny Lawrence (William…
We’re getting the first look at YouTube Red’s upcoming action drama series Impulse, directed and executive produced by Doug Liman (Bourne Identity).
The genre-bending hourlong action-thriller hails from Universal Cable Productions and studio-based Hypnotic (Suits) and marks the first UCP series for YouTube.
Based on…
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, whether it’s high school or the real world, it’s that the only way to get respect is to take it.”
We’re getting the first look at YouTube and Grey’s Anatomy producer The Mark Gordon Company's eight-episode half-hour teen dramedy Youth & Consequences, ahead of its March 7 premiere on…
“I just don't know why you'd ever want to bring back Cobra Kai,” asks Ralph Macchio, the Karate Kid himself, in this first-look teaser for the YouTube Red original series Cobra Kai. He sorta answers his own question later in the trailer: “Johnny, you and I, this, we aren’t done.”
Reprising their Karate Kid roles after…
