Adding even more tension to the tug-of-war match between Netflix and content providers, Showtime original series which are still in production – like Dexter and Californication – will disappear from the service in the northern summer.
The WSJ has heard from those elusive sources, who’re claiming that Yahoo is talking with Disney about developing TV-streaming widgets for the ESPN, ABC and Disney networks. People with Yahoo Connected TVs could stream TV shows from those networks, along with movie trailers and in ESPN’s case, stats.
Showtime has begun selling episodes of Weeds online before the show’s full-season DVD release, a first for the series. And Weeds isn’t nearly the only one – is Hollywood finally embracing digital downloads as the successor to DVD?
