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Netflix has made a side-scrolling game based on its original shows

by Andrew Liptak@AndrewLiptak Jan 7, 2017, 11:53am EST

Can’t get enough of Netflix’s Stranger Things or Narcos? The streaming video company has created a side-scrolling, endless running game based on a handful of their original shows. It’s the perfect way to waste a couple of minutes while you wait...

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Duncan Jones' Mute looks like an icy '80s music video

by Lizzie Plaugic Jan 6, 2017, 12:19pm EST

Netflix just released the first images from Duncan Jones’ upcoming movie, Mute, and they look straight out of a Human League music video. The sci-fi thriller will star Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, and Seyneb Saleh. This will be...

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Dish unveils a 4K Android TV streaming box with Netflix, Sling TV, and local channels

by Chris Welch Jan 3, 2017, 9:18am EST

The AirTV Player is available today starting at $99.

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Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in January

by Bryan Bishop@bcbishop Dec 28, 2016, 9:00am EST

I think it’s safe to say that we’re all looking forward to 2016 dancing itself right off the stage of history and ushering in a new year where hopefully everything isn’t the most terrible thing ever. But despite the promise and potential that a...

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How Netflix and Amazon took different approaches to rebooting classic shows

by Andrew Liptak@AndrewLiptak Dec 24, 2016, 12:35pm EST

In the last couple of months, both Amazon and Netflix seemed to find a winning, easy approach for creating their own content: find a beloved, nerdy reality show, sign the original cast, and retool it under a new name. The two new shows, The Grand...

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You can now control Netflix using Google Home

by James Vincent@jjvincent Dec 15, 2016, 4:19am EST

Google has added support for Netflix to its home assistant Google Home — just in time for a bit of holiday binge-watching. You’ll be able to ask Home to play specific series, skip episodes, pause and resume playback, turn on captions, and even...

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Watch the trailer for Netflix’s secretive mystery drama, The OA

by Kaitlyn Tiffany Dec 12, 2016, 1:51pm EST

Netflix announced that the first eight episodes of its new series The OA will be debuting on Friday by tweeting a series of grim questions — “Have you seen death?” “Have you seen darkness?” — along with an eight-second video of a woman jumping off...

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Netflix adds video previews to make it easier to find something to watch

by Chaim Gartenberg@cgartenberg Dec 6, 2016, 3:02pm EST

Netflix knows how difficult it is to actually find something you want to watch in its massive streaming catalog. To that end, the company is adding a long-awaited feature to its TV apps: video previews. The previews will show up while you’re...

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Netflix will release 20 unscripted shows next year

by Sam Byford@345triangle Dec 6, 2016, 12:14am EST

Netflix plans to release 20 unscripted or reality shows in 2017, according to comments made by chief content officer Ted Sarandos and reported by Variety. “Unscripted television is a very interesting business,” Sarandos said, adding that the...

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Netflix has renewed Luke Cage for a second season

by Andrew Liptak@AndrewLiptak Dec 4, 2016, 3:10pm EST

Sweet Christmas!

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Netflix announces dates for Sense8 Christmas Special and second season

by Andrew Liptak@AndrewLiptak Dec 3, 2016, 7:20pm EST

Ever since Netflix renewed Sense8 for a second season in 2015, there’s been little news about the series. Netflix finally dropped the news via Twitter earlier this afternoon, announcing the premiere date of the next season, as well as a Christmas...

The first trailer for Netflix’s Spectral is Black Hawk Down meets Ghostbusters

by Andrew Liptak@AndrewLiptak Dec 2, 2016, 5:13pm EST

Netflix has a flashy action movie in time for the holidays

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The new Gilmore Girls’ treatment of people of color is even more stunning in screenshots

by Kaitlyn Tiffany Nov 30, 2016, 5:49pm EST

Writer Rahawa Haile’s new Tumblr Gilmore Blacks spotlights every black person who appears in Netflix’s massively hyped Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. One of them is a secretary who gets fired moments after she first appears on-screen, others...

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Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in December

by Bryan Bishop@bcbishop Nov 30, 2016, 12:44pm EST

The holiday season brings with it surprises and wonder, and that holds true even in the world of online streaming services. Case in point? On December 9th, Netflix will be debuting the second season of Fuller House, just 10 months after the first...

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Gilmore Girls’ depressing, regressive ending: was it fine?

by Kaitlyn Tiffany, Loren Grush, and Megan Farokhmanesh Nov 30, 2016, 11:29am EST

Netflix’s six-hour Gilmore Girls revival A Year In The Life has been out for five days, and everyone who cared enough to watch it is currently brimming with opinions. The newly produced episodes continued a story that went off the air back in...

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All the best Netflix shows and movies you can now download

by Chaim Gartenberg@cgartenberg Nov 30, 2016, 10:57am EST

Netflix just announced that it’s adding the ability to download TV shows and movies to your Android or iOS devices to watch offline. It’s a big deal for anyone who likes watching movies while flying on a plane or commuting to work on the subway. I...

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Netflix finally lets you download shows and movies to watch offline

by Chris Welch Nov 30, 2016, 9:14am EST

You can finally take Netflix with you onto a plane or the subway. Today the company announced that it’s launching offline playback for “many of your favorite streaming series and movies.” Right now, that selection includes stuff made by Netflix (S...

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The new Gilmore Girls is weirdly hostile toward fans, women, and storytelling in general

by Kaitlyn Tiffany Nov 28, 2016, 2:00pm EST

After years of anticipation, Netflix has produced and released six new hours of Gilmore Girls. These new episodes should be enjoyable to watch, if only because they let us all revisit beloved characters and familiar settings. But they’re also six...

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Dave Chappelle just got three comedy specials on Netflix

by Kwame Opam@kwameopam Nov 21, 2016, 1:35pm EST

A little more than a week after hosting the first post-election Saturday Night Live, Dave Chappelle is gearing up for an even bigger return to television. According to Variety, Netflix has announced that the comedian has inked a deal for three...

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Netflix’s Series of Unfortunate Events looks like a promising mix of Burton and Rowling

by Chaim Gartenberg@cgartenberg Nov 17, 2016, 2:21pm EST

There’s a new trailer out for Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events adaptation, and unlike the brief hints of the earlier teasers, we’re finally getting a good look at what to expect from the series when it debuts on the streaming service next...

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Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in November

by Bryan Bishop@bcbishop Oct 31, 2016, 7:35pm EDT

Usually in this post I try to design some (not-so) clever competitive framework that allows the various streaming services to compete against one another based upon what shows they add or lose in a given month. The kind of thing where I say that...

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Stranger Things video gives a news update on Barb

by Kwame Opam@kwameopam Oct 31, 2016, 5:46pm EDT

Netflix seems to be making good on the promise to provide some justice for Barb. In this Stranger Things promotional video, an ‘80s-era newscaster finally acknowledges the fan favorite’s mysterious disappearance, something the series never made...

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Black Mirror's Hated in the Nation creates a world where everyone is at fault

by Lizzie Plaugic Oct 28, 2016, 10:00am EDT

The third season of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on October 21st. It’s the first season of the show produced by Netflix, after...

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Apple reportedly launching TV guide tomorrow without Netflix's support

by Nick Statt@nickstatt Oct 26, 2016, 6:53pm EDT

Apple plans on unveiling its own version of a TV guide tomorrow during its Mac hardware event in Cupertino, California, according to Recode. The software will live on top of the Apple TV streaming box, as well as an app on iOS devices, to let...

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Black Mirror’s creators dialed back the horror in Playtest

by Megan Farokhmanesh@Megan_Nicolett Oct 26, 2016, 6:29pm EDT

Black Mirror’s latest season has no shortage of downer moments. In its second episode, “Playtest,” the show veers away from its typically cynical view of technology, however, and falls straight into a horror rabbit hole. It turns out it could have...

The Gilmore Girls revival trailer is here and everyone, everyone, everyone is back

by Kaitlyn Tiffany Oct 25, 2016, 11:18am EDT

The official trailer for Netflix's much-hyped Gilmore Girls revival is here, and if you're the sort of person that interests, you might want to sit down and take a deep breath before you watch it. Everyone is back. All of the casting rumors were...

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Netflix boss imagines replacing movies and TV shows with entertainment drugs

by Rich McCormick Oct 24, 2016, 11:48pm EDT

Netflix has become a household name by offering streaming movies and TV shows, but CEO Reed Hastings is already looking to the future, to a time when people stop binge-watching entire seasons and take futuristic entertainment pills instead....

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Our little corner of the world: the Gilmore Girls get a fan festival

by Kaitlyn Tiffany Oct 24, 2016, 3:27pm EDT

This weekend, I went to the “real” Stars Hollow — the Connecticut town of Washington Depot — for the first Gilmore Girls fan festival. On my first day there, someone gives me a handmade, artisanal pop tart. It’s good: thicker than a normal pop...

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Jessica Jones' next season will be directed entirely by women

by Andrew Liptak@AndrewLiptak Oct 23, 2016, 2:00pm EDT

When Jessica Jones returns to Netflix for its second season, women will be behind the cameras directing each episode, according to the show’s executive producer, Melissa Rosenberg. Rosenberg made the remarks on Friday at the Transforming...

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Netflix pushes off 'challenging' China launch and will license shows instead

by Nick Statt@nickstatt Oct 17, 2016, 7:57pm EDT

Netflix has wanted a presence in China’s mammoth media landscape for years, but the streaming service today said it will halt any and all launch plans in the country due to a "challenging" regulatory environment. In place of an official Netflix...

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Netflix's Terrace House finds meaning in mundane human interaction

by Dami Lee@dami_lee Oct 15, 2016, 9:00am EDT

In Netflix’s quietly affable reality program Terrace House, the setup is familiar, but the result is different. Six young, attractive strangers — three men and three women — all live under one roof in a swanky apartment. But there's absolutely no...

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Netflix pays a reported $40 million for two Chris Rock stand-up specials

by Rich McCormick Oct 14, 2016, 12:17am EDT

Chris Rock will star in two new stand-up specials for Netflix, the streaming service announced today, marking the comedian's return to the art form after eight years away. The deal bringing Rock to Netflix is worth $40 million, Variety says, the...

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