Netflix has opened up vast new possibilities for Shondaland, a panel comprised of company executives and creative collaborators agreed Sunday, but the DNA that informed Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal remains intact. “The underlying principles of what made the Shondaland recipe in the ABC version are going to be alive and…

UPDATED with video clip. Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos, in a lengthy sit-down with Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries, covered a host of topics, including talent agencies producing content, Disney’s streaming outlook and Netflix’s M&A future. The pair spoke onstage Friday night at SeriesFest in Denver, an emerging…

The song "My Bathroom" from 1969 never made it onto the Billboard charts. But that doesn't mean this ode to the commode—with lyrics like "My bathroom, my bathroom, is my very special room, where I primp and fuss and groom"—isn't worthy of deeper appreciation. That's the guiding spirit of Bathtubs Over Broadway, the…

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave), Harry Melling (The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs) and Veronica Ngo (Bright) have joined the cast of Netflix’s action-fantasy film The Old Guard, the streamer has confirmed. Gina Prince-Bythewood’s (Beyond The Lights) directs the film which is now shooting at the UK’s Pinewood Studios…

Netflix experienced a brief outage of about an hour Thursday afternoon. The streaming service’s website indicated the problem was unspecified “technical issues” that the company was working to correct. The outage happened around 6:30 ET/3:30 PT according to the monitor Downdetector.com. The most- reported problems…

Good Omens, the Amazon comedy that spotlights the efforts of an angel and demon to thwart the Antichrist, is being demonized in a petition drive started by a Christian group, which claims the show promotes and normalizes Satanism and mocks the Creator. The only problem is they have the wrong streamer targeted on the…

Netflix has ordered eight episodes of The Healing Powers of Dude, a family live action single camera comedy series from Erica Spates and Sam Littenberg-Weisberg (Coop and Cami Ask the World, Victorious, Mystery Girls). Richie Keen (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Fist Fight, Teachers) directs four episodes and…

Paul Thomas Anderson has teamed up with Netflix and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on short film ‘one-reeler’ Anima, which has been made alongside Yorke’s upcoming album of the same name. Described as a “short musical film”, Yorke scores and stars in the “mind-bending visual piece, best played loud.” The film will show…

Netflix has wrapped filming on its first German Original film, Concrete Gold, starring David Kross (The Reader), Frederick Lau (Victoria) and Janina Uhse (Good Times, Bad Times). The UFA-produced drama-thriller charts the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but…

Netflix is adapting Scandinavian movie trilogy Snabba Cash (Easy Money) into a six-part series. The SVOD service has partnered with screenwriter Oskar Söderlund and author Jens Lapidus on the project. The series is set in Stockholm ten years after the events depicted in the feature films. It is a buzzing environment…

The Prom, the gutsy little show that won Broadway’s heart, gave the nation something to talk about over Thanksgiving turkey and is heading for the road and Netflix, will play its last Broadway performance on Sunday, Aug. 11. Producers Bill Damaschke, Dori Berinstein and Jack Lane announced the production’s closing…

Netflix has renewed Danish Original drama series The Rain for a third and final season. The internet network announced the news Wednesday on Twitter. In The Rain, the world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wipes out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge…