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Ricky Strauss is exiting from his role as head of marketing at Apple TV+ after leading the department for nearly a year and a half. An Apple spokesperson confirmed Strauss would be stepping down from his Culver City-based role. Another insider familiar with Strauss’ moves indicated that the exec is looking to pursue other creative endeavors. It is unclear whether the now-vacated position will be filled and who will step in if so. Hired in January 2023, Strauss’ responsibilities included overseeing marketing campaigns, advertising and promotions for Apple TV+ programming,...

Audiences may not be the only thing about TV that continues to shrink. Advertisers are expected to once again press for “rollbacks,” or declines in the rates they pay for reaching streaming and TV viewers, in early “upfront” talks with TV networks, according to five media buying executives and other people familiar with these annual discussions in which U.S. media companies try to sell the bulk of their commercial inventory ahead of their next cycle of programming. And while the buyers have a vested interest in cooling any potential hot...

Veena Sud’s new horror film The Stranger hits Hulu on April 15, but some viewers might have already seen it years ago in a very different format. Does anyone remember Quibi? Sud, who is best known for developing AMC’s version of the Danish crime drama The Killing, originally released The Stranger in 13 bite-sized episodes as part of Quibi’s launch back in April 2020. The streaming service lasted only six months, but as Sud recently told The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s short-lived platform offered creators a unique value proposition...

PORTAGE, MI -- Like city streets or sidewalks, telecommunications cables buried underground or running into homes are public utilities owned by taxpayers. Cities across the state collect more than $100 million from cable companies for the use of those cables every year, Portage City Manager Pat McGinnis said. In turn, cities maintain them, and can use extra money to support public services and local video programming. For the Southwest Michigan city of Portage, this represents a $675,000 revenue stream. The money is used to livestream public meetings, produce promotional videos...

You would think as streaming services go to war with each other, prices may in fact go down at some point as they compete for wallets and eyeballs. Instead, the opposite is happening, and price hikes are frequent and endless. No one is pushing their luck more than Disney, however, who has just announced large hikes to the add-free tiers of Disney Plus and Hulu. • Disney Plus is going from $10.99 a month to $13.99 a month. • Hulu is going from $14.99 a month to $17.99 a month....

The Walt Disney Company continues to hemorrhage money on its streaming services, losing hundreds of millions of dollars in the most recent quarter as it plans to pass some of that pain to consumers by once again jacking up prices on Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+. Disney reported its streaming businesses lost $512 million for the fiscal third quarter, marking an improvement from the same period last year when it lost more than $1 billion. CEO Bob Iger is in the midst of reining in the company’s profligate spending habits in...

n the wake of a string of popular true-crime adaptations ranging from HBO’s to Netflix’s comes Hulu’s new movie, out March 17. Written and directed by Matt Ruskin ( ), tells the story of 13 women who were murdered in and around Boston in the early 1960s, sometimes referred to as the “Silk Stocking Murders,” from the perspective of the two journalists who broke the story on the connected killings, Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightley) and Jean Cole (Carrie Coon). As investigative reporters for the (a predecessor of the ), McLaughlin...

Born Albert DeSalvo, the Massachusetts native has become better known by his murderer moniker: the Boston Strangler. Regarded as one of New England's most prolific serial killers, DeSalvo is notorious for the slew of crimes he committed throughout the 1960s. While he was charged with several counts of assault, burglary and sex offenses, he became synonymous with the infamous stranglings that terrorized Boston. Although DeSalvo's case was brought to light over five decades ago, his self-confessed crimes and admission to being the Boston Strangler (after he was charged for a...

Former Herald reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole are being given their due in a new Hulu series on the Boston Strangler. Keira Knightley plays McLaughlin and Carrie Coon depicts Cole. The two reporters for the Boston Record-American (now just the Herald) helped break the Strangler case in the late 1960s when the Vietnam war was percolating and the city was gripped by the 13 murders of women. I’m hard at work tracking down relatives, so stay tuned. I’ll succeed — I know they both would want me to —...