It’s been a dramatic month for Denmark’s royal family, with Queen Margrethe announcing her abdication in favour of her elder son, the new King Frederik. The former monarch stood down from the Danish throne after 52 years, making the announcement in a surprise address to the nation live on television. Now The Guardian reports that
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A glitch in Amazon’s reporting couldn’t stop Reacher from hitting the top of the Nielsen streaming charts. The series put up another 1.2B viewing minutes during the December 18 to 24 interval, despite the fact that the new episode released on Dec. 20 is not counted in this reporting. Nielsen says the glitch with Prime
Screen bodies around the world are uniting in an unprecedented attempt to get governments to take action on streamer regulation. Twenty influential screen production organizations have issued a statement demanding lawmakers protect producers and local content. The joint statement (read it in full below) from production bodies from Canada, Australasia, Europe and Latin America lays
Three shows and three networks dominated the 2023 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, with HBO‘s Succession, FX‘s The Bear and Netflix‘s Beef leaving all other programs in the dust. HBO scored a leading nine statuettes at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with Netflix and FX taking six each. See the list of wins by
Clare Foy is satisfied that her battle over pay for The Crown has paid off for other female actors. The British star of the first two series of the Netflix big-budget drama was famously enraged on the discovery that, despite holding the crown of the title in her lead role of a young Elizabeth II,
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix drama exec Roberto Stopello has exited his Mexico City-based role with the company, but will continue to collaborate with the streamer on scripted fare, Deadline has learned. Stopello was VP of Series in Latin America at Netflix. He has now left and Deadline understands he plans to move back to the U.S. for
Like mistletoe and candy canes, Kevin Spacey has arrived with his annual Christmas message in the character of Frank Underwood, the character he played on the Netflix drama House of Cards. This time, Tucker Carlson is playing along, doing a semi-serious interview at first, then breaking the wall and asking Spacey/Underwood about his future plans
Ricky Gervais has a message for those who don’t get his humor. The comedian has finally addressed a petition that was launched to remove a controversial joke from his upcoming Netflix comedy special, Armageddon, airing on Christmas Day. The joke being objected to stems from Gervais allegedly being busy making videos for terminally ill children
Audiences are still flocking to Netflix‘s new apocalyptic thriller Leave the World Behind. The film, directed by Sam Esmail, drummed up another 44.9M views in its second week on the streamer from December 11 to 17. It was once again top dog, easily notching another week as Netflix’s most-watched title. Add that to the 41.7M views
Midseason is the new fall. As Hollywood and the broader industry continue to recover from the debilitating dual actors and writers strikes, the 2024 television landscape is coming into focus. All of the broadcast networks have set return dates for most of their shows, with the postponed Emmy Awards now set for January 15 and no
EXCLUSIVE: A persuasive argument can be made for The Crown being the jewel in British television’s very own crown, but it was so very nearly an uncut gem. A decade ago, this 60-hour showpiece was perilously close to being an idea filed under: nearly, but not quite. A passion project that lives in the great
EXCLUSIVE: Outlander star Lauren Lyle has boarded Netflix‘s Corby Poisonings drama Toxic Town. Lyle’s role is unconfirmed but she joins an all-star cast including Aimee Lou Wood, Jodie Whittaker, Robert Carlyle and Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie. The series is being penned by Help and His Dark Materials scribe Jack Thorne and produced by Charlie Brooker and
Netflix has renewed the critically acclaimed animated action series Blue Eye Samurai for a second season. Set in Edo-period Japan, Blue Eye Samurai, from Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, follows Mizu (voiced by Maya Erskine), a mixed-race master of the sword who lives a life in disguise seeking the deliverance of revenge. Voice cast also
The combined Disney+ Hulu app will leapfrog Netflix on both popularity and volume in the U.S., according to a report from Ampere Analysis. One-third of the 100 most popular Q3 titles in their home market were on Disney+ and Hulu, Ampere found, with 17 on the former and 16 on the latter, placing the pair
Michelle Obama is giving a boost to American Symphony, the Oscar-contending documentary about musician Jon Batiste and his wife, musician Suleika Jaouad. The former first lady introduced the Matthew Heineman film at a special screening Thursday night in New Orleans, a place of special significance for Batiste, who was born in nearby Metairie, Louisiana and
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off creators Bryan Lee O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski are opening up about the possibilities of a second season for their animated series. Although the Netflix show has received favorable reviews, O’Malley and Grabinski are not currently planning a sequel and have made this a one-and-done show — for now. “It’s self-contained for
A Florida court case that was the subject of the Netflix documentary Take Care of Maya has seen its defendants ask for a retrial. Two weeks ago, a jury awarded $261 million in damages against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. The court documents claimed 10-year-old Maya Kowalski was falsely imprisoned and battered by the medical
EXCLUSIVE: The Crown has been criticized by the Queen’s former press secretary for lacking sensitivity in its portrayal of the events surrounding Princess Diana‘s death. Dickie Arbiter, who worked for Queen Elizabeth II during the period depicted in Season 6, accused The Crown’s creator Peter Morgan of “dramatic license gone bonkers.” Arbiter was particularly critical
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