Tag: Netflix

Netflix noted its diminishing focus on second-run content and the need to continuously improve the customer experience as it released its Q4 2018 financials, which saw gains in both subscriber numbers and revenues.

Spencer Neumann is joining Netflix as chief financial officer, after having served most recently in the same post at Activision Blizzard.

Channing Dungey, who most recently served as president of ABC Entertainment, is joining Netflix as VP of original content.

Netflix has picked up a dark comedy that is loosely based on the life experiences of Rightor Doyle (Barry, You’re the Worst, Nerve), who serves as writer, director, showrunner and executive producer.

New data from Parrot Analytics and Kagan projects that in the U.S., the popularity of originals on Netflix will overtake that of licensed content on the platform in October 2019.

Jonathan Entwistle, director of The End of the F***ing World, and the producers of Stranger Things have partnered on the new Netflix series I Am Not Okay With This, based on the Charles Forsman graphic novel.

Cardi B, Chance the Rapper and T.I. are on board Rhythm + Flow, Netflix’s first music competition show, which searches for the next breakout hip-hop star.

Writer and producer Chris Van Dusen, who most recently served as co-executive producer on Scandal, has signed a multiyear series overall deal with Netflix.

Netflix is looking to raise $2 billion in financing through debt securities, with plans to use the proceeds for "general corporate purposes," including more content acquisitions and the development and production of original programming.

Netflix has ordered a new multigenerational live-action comedy series, Family Reunion, created by Meg DeLoatch (Fuller House).