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Shinichiro Watanabe couldn’t make it past the opening scene of the Netflix live-action adaptation of his anime classic, Cowboy Bebop. In talking with Forbes, Watanabe said Netflix sent him “a video to review and check.” But he couldn’t bear to see more than a few minutes of it. “It started with…

Chatting away to Sally Hawkins, as you do, in the fabled Abbey Road Studios in posh North London neighborhood of St. John's Wood, she tells me "I feel fine" when I inquire after her well-being. Our feet are planted in the very spot where The Beatles recorded the track for “I Feel Fine,” a single that…

Netflix has ordered a seventh season of one of its longest-running docuseries, Somebody Feed Phil, created and hosted by Emmy winner Phil Rosenthal. The series, whose sixth season was released in October 2022, will once again follow the Everybody Loves Raymond creator on his culinary adventures as he…

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is breaking Nielsen streaming records in the U.S. The film became the most-streamed movie in a measurement week from December 26 to January 1 (its first full week on Netflix), surpassing Hocus Pocus 2 and Wonder Woman 1984. With 2.9B minutes viewed, it was the No. 1…

Joe Cornish's teen ghosthunter drama Lockwood and Co. launches on Netflix globally today. The show, the streamer's latest young-adult scripted series from the UK, stars Ruby Stokes (Bridgerton) and newcomers Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati as a teen trio who run an independent ghost fighting agency…

The Oscar nominations this week set off a new round of speculation about corporate image: Does it matter that Netflix's potential Oscar take had dropped to 16 from 36 in 2020? "I don't give a f*ck about my corporate image and companies shouldn't waste…

Noah Centineo’s The Recruit will return for a second season. Netflix announced today it has renewed the popular series from Entertainment One, Alexi Hawley and Hypnotic. Season 2 will pick up from last season’s cliffhanger ending that found Owen (Centineo) and Max (Laura Haddock) captured and their…

The results are in, and Netflix undoubtedly dominated the Nielsen U.S. streaming charts for 2022, led by originals including Stranger Things, Wednesday and Ozark — as well as acquisitions like Cocomelon and NCIS. The streamer took home 11 of the top 15 spots on the overall streaming program list, and…

Netflix has been forced to defend the conditions on its upcoming Squid Game: The Challenge reality series following reports of freezing cold temperatures and medical issues during the Red Light, Green Light game. In amidst UK temperatures that have dropped below freezing during the day, Netflix and…

Newly Oscar-nominated composer M.M. Keeravani can now put on his dancing shoes after securing a spot in Best Original Song for his popular song “Naatu Naatu” from the Indian action-comedy film RRR. In speaking with Deadline on Tuesday about his nomination, Keeravani revealed that he was working—and…

It looks like it’s a forward march into Oscars season with the heavily accoladed war-drama All Quiet on the Western Front. Following its impressive 14 nomination count at the BAFTAs in almost all major categories, the film’s director Edward Berger and producer Malte Grunert now sound off to the tune of…

That ’90s Show made its entrance onto the Netflix Top 10 for the week of January 16 to January 22, after only three days on the service. The That ’70s Show spinoff series brought in 41.1M hours viewed, coming in at No. 5 on the list of most-watched English-language series. Ginny & Georgia Season 2 is…