blinkbox

Initial release	2007 (2007)
Operating system	Windows XP (x86 only), Windows Vista, Mac OS X (x86 only), Linux (x86 only), Xbox 360, PS3, iOS, Android
Available in	English
Type	Video on demand, TV
Website	www.blinkbox.com

Blinkbox is a UK-based video-on-demand (VoD) website that allows users to legally preview, buy and rent over 10,000 full length premium movies and TV shows online. New releases are added constantly, with many becoming available on the same day as the DVD.

Blinkbox was co-founded by Michael Comish (chief executive officer) and Adrian Letts (chief operating officer), former senior executives of Channel 4 and Vodafone in 2006 and launched in 2008 with the backing of a number of venture capital firms, including Arts Alliance. On 20 April 2011, Tesco acquired an 80% stake in blinkbox from Eden Ventures and Nordic Venture Partners. It intends to use the company to boost its digital entertainment offering.^[1]

Blinkbox has around 2.8 million users a month according to comScore, putting it above most of its competition.

Offer[link]

Blinkbox has content deals with studios including Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and 20th Century Fox and more than 15 leading independent producers such as FremantleMedia, All3Media, Revolver Entertainment and Aardman Animations.

Blinkbox also moved into the TV market by signing a deal with the Samsung Group allowing blinkbox films to be streamed directly though any Internet@TV Samsung TVs. blinkbox also formed a content partnership with YouTube^[2] allowing the site to carry blinkbox films on its new Movies section. The site also entered the games market by being the first site in the UK to offer streaming film content through Sony’s PlayStation 3 console.^[2]

In June 2010, Blinkbox launched the "Full Stream Ahead"^[3] campaign bringing together leading film studios to offer free movie content for one week to encourage consumer adoption of streaming technology and demonstrating the advantages of legal streaming services over illegal file-sharing.

Blinkbox also allows visitors to leave comments and to customise clips by adding personal text messages to any section of a film or TV programme.

Business model[link]

Blinkbox is the only service of its kind to have a combined free-pay offering, allowing users to stream paid-for feature titles alongside free, advert-supported TV and film content.

Additionally, a significant number of titles are free to watch, with revenue generated by advertisements during playback, similar to commercial television

Technology[link]

Rental content can be streamed directly to a IBM PC compatible, Macintosh, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or Samsung Internet enabled television, and can be viewed any number of times within 48 hours. Buy-to-own content can be viewed without limit. Unusable on Samsung Internet enabled televisions.^[4]

Downloaded content is protected using Microsoft's Windows Media DRM digital rights management. The streaming service enables users to watch a selection of their premium content instantly using Adobe Flash secure video delivery technology.

See also[link]

• Internet television
• Video-on-demand

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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Maisie Williams
Maisie Williams in 2011
Born	Maisie Williams (1997-04-15) 15 April 1997 (age 15)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2011 – present

Maisie Williams (born 15 April 1997)^[1] is a British actress.

Career[link]

[edit] Game of Thrones

Her first role^[2] was that of Arya Stark, a tomboyish young girl from a noble family, in the 2011 HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.^[3] In the adult-themed drama Williams was the first child actor called upon to film their character killing, in episode eight of the first season.^[4] She received acclaim for her performance with Zap2it calling her "wonderfully feisty"^[5] and the Telegraph "fantastic".^[6]

Williams continued to garner praise in the second season of Game of Thrones.^[7][8] HBO submitted her for consideration as Outstanding Supporting Actress in the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards.^[9]

Other roles[link]

Williams is to appear as Loren Caleigh in the BBC's The Secret of Crickley Hall TV drama and in an as-yet unnamed role in Bold Films' 124 Degrees movie.^[10][11]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Maisie Williams at the Internet Movie Database

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Joe Dempsie
Born	Joseph Maxwell Dempsie (1987-06-22) 22 June 1987 (age 25) Liverpool, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2000–present

Joseph "Joe" Maxwell Dempsie (born 22 June 1987 in Liverpool) is an English actor, best known for playing the role of Chris Miles in the E4 television show Skins. Dempsie's earlier acting credits include the medical dramas Doctors, Peak Practice and Sweet Medicine, as well as the films One for the Road and Heartlands. He also appeared in Born and Bred and a BBC documentary-drama about Norfolk farmer, Tony Martin. He is currently playing the role of Gendry in the HBO series Game of Thrones and the villainous John/Pollus in the BBC TV series The Fades.

Career[link]

Dempsie received his acting training from the Central Junior Television Workshop, Nottingham. He was also educated at The West Bridgford School in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.

He is now the voice of the Clearasil advertisements in the UK.

Dempsie is a keen Nottingham Forest football fan and attends many home and away matches, he appeared on the UK Saturday morning football show Soccer AM wearing a Nottingham Forest football shirt. He appeared alongside Skins co-star Nicholas Hoult.

In episode 6 of the fourth series of Doctor Who, "The Doctor's Daughter", that aired on 10 May 2008, Dempsie played the character Cline,^[1] a soldier who watches his comrades die.^[2] In addition to this appearance, he conducted a small interview with Doctor Who Magazine which appears on the final page of issue 396 (June 2008).

On 18 April 2008, Dempsie appeared on Friday Night Project with Geri Halliwell.^[3] On 20 July 2008 he appeared at T4 on the beach in Weston Super Mare alongside fellow Skins cast members.

He appeared as Duncan McKenzie in 2009's 'The Damned United' alongside Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Graham and Timothy Spall.

In November 2008, he appeared in The Moment of Truth, episode 10 of the BBC show Merlin. He plays Will, who is an old friend of Merlin's, from the village in which they grew up together.

In 2010 he voiced Steven, a gay teenager from Nottinghamshire in the Radio 4 play Once Upon a Time. It was also announced that he would play the character of Gendry in HBO's Spring 2011 series Game of Thrones, a character expected to recur. The series is based upon George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels.^[4] He also starred in the Channel 4 mini series This Is England '86.

He has also appeared in Harry and Paul on BBC 2, appearing as a northerner who was presented as a gift from the character Harry was playing to his daughter.

Recently he has appeared in the BBC Three series The Fades (episodes 3 to 6), as Young Polus/John.^[5]

[edit] Skins

Dempsie garnered critical and popular acclaim for his portrayal of Chris Miles, the drug-addicted wastrel and party animal in the unorthodox and controversial teen drama Skins. His portrayal has been described as well-researched, realistic, believable, and, in a strange way, likable. He is the character with whom the audience not merely sympathises with but also feels empathy, sharing his joys, grief, pain and strength. Due to the popularity of the series he is known to have a legion of devoted fans. Dempsie however gained significant notoriety for appearing stark-naked in the series 1 episode "Chris". Dempsie left Skins in 2008 at the end of the second series, along with most of the original cast.

Credits[link]

Television[link]

Film[link]

Radio[link]

Voiceover work[link]

Self-appearances[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Joe Dempsie at the Internet Movie Database