Showtime’s Homeland is expanding into new subscription video on demand territory. Hulu announced today that it is now streaming seasons 1 through 4 of Showtime’s Homeland. The streamer gained SVOD rights by reaching a multiyear deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, reports Variety.
While the new deal has been called “exclusive” by Hulu, there is a caveat: Showtime’s streaming service still offers Homeland to subscribers as well. Nonetheless, Hulu is the only non-Showtime service where members can stream the first four seasons of the terrorism-centric drama without subscribing to the premium network. Season 5, the critically acclaimed series’ most recent, will also become available at a later date.
Hulu touted the new deal in a tweet today, telling users that that their “subscription got even better” with the addition of Homeland.
Everyone has something to hide. Your subscription got even better. Homeland S1-4 are now streaming. pic.twitter.com/OUupH9d43N
— hulu (@hulu) August 1, 2016
Homeland has been a success for Showtime since premiering in 2011. The political thriller has enjoyed both critical acclaim and a positive fan response over the years, racking up numerous high-profile nominations and awards, including Emmys and Golden Globes. As such, the show has served as bait for would-be Showtime subscribers, likely leading to Showtime’s reluctance to stream it elsewhere until now.
The new deal, however, seems to lend itself well to hooking new fans and converting them into Showtime subscribers as well. With only four out of five seasons on Hulu, members may find themselves signing up for the Showtime service just to be able to continue getting their Homeland fix. Conveniently, they can sign up for the service through Hulu for $9 a month.
The Fox 21 Television Studios-produced series is set to begin production on its sixth season this summer and will return with new episodes in early 2017.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?