Apple doesn’t seem like its slowing it’s original content efforts anytime soon. The company has been aggressively gaining rights to more original content over the past several months and today is no exception.
The New York Times reports that Apple has just landed rights to Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change, a novel written by Nathaniel Rich. The report also includes a rather buried mention of when we should expect the new video service to finally go live…
Anonymous Content will be producing the show, along with Anonymous CEO Steven Golin, and Rich himself. Rich will also be working on a related book called Losing Earth, which will be published next year.
More notably, Apple apparently told the New York Times that it will begin offering its streaming TV services in 2019, something we don’t believe they’ve disclosed before:
We’ve reached out to Apple to clarify this detail and will update if we hear back.
In the company’s latest earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook referenced the service and Apple’s Sony Television hires but didn’t offer a timeline:
The company has also acknowledged a “lineup of original content from Apple” as part of its partnership with Oprah, but the timeline for release has been a mystery — even if we all guessed 2019.
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