Confirmed that there is an issue, even on my end. So you are not alone.
I tried 5 different series. 4 of them even after a minute they had not started. 1 of them took about 45 seconds to get started, but once it is started it played fine for about 2 minutes after which I stopped it.
VOD is a little better, but it does take about 10 seconds to start most of them (longer than usual, but they start). 1 of the movies I quickly tried had freezing issues. Don't know if it was just the specific movie, or server issue. 5 or 6 others I tried were fine.