Showtime has given a straight-to-series order to a new variety series starring and executive produced by Ziwe, a writer, comedian and performer.

Vanessa Shapiro's Nicely Entertainment has licensed four new holiday movies to Lifetime for broadcast this year.

Regina Hall has entered into a first-look deal with Showtime to develop and produce projects under her company, Rh Negative.

The number of SVOD subscribers in the U.S. is set to rise from 203 million last year to 317 million in 2025, according to Digital TV Research.

M&A deal activity in the U.S. media sector fell 19 percent in the first half of this year compared to the second half of 2019, according to PwC, but digital and telco assets are still proving to be attractive assets amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

CBS All Access and CBS Sports will serve as the exclusive English-language homes in the U.S. of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League through 2024.

NBCUniversal's new streaming service, Peacock, has sealed a deal with ViacomCBS for a raft of movies and TV shows, among them The Godfather trilogy, Ray Donovan and The Affair.

The churn rate among OTT services in the U.S. rose from 35 percent in Q1 2019 to 41 percent in Q1 2020, according to Parks Associates.

New data from Strategy Analytics indicates that the surge in SVOD numbers seen at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. was not sustained once stay-at-home measures eased.

Between April 2019 and April 2020, the number of OTT homes in the U.S. rose by 5.2 million, according to Comscore's 2020 State of OTT report.