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Ted Sarandos
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Netflix’s Sarandos: “who wouldn’t be interested” in deal with Harry and Meghan?
Netflix is interested in doing a deal with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, chief content…
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Netflix strikes landmark deal for global rights to ‘Seinfeld’
Netflix has picked up global streaming rights to US sitcom Seinfeld in a major coup for…
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Netflix beats out competition for exclusive deal with ‘Game Of Thrones’ creators
Netflix has beaten the likes of Amazon and Disney to strike an exclusive deal with…
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TBI Weekly: What Netflix’s Q2 tells us about its long-game strategy
Netflix’s Q2 results rang alarm bells this week after the business revealed it had lost…
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Netflix eyes studio space at UK’s Pinewood Studios
Netflix is looking to lease at least a third of the UK’s Pinewood Studios as…
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TBI Weekly: Five takeaways from Netflix’s Q1 results
Netflix beat expectations all round for its first quarter results of 2019, drawing $4.52bn for…
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Ted Sarandos: Netflix doesn’t disrupt for disruption’s sake
Netflix is not primarily about acting disruptively, at least in terms of content if not…
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Netflix cancels ‘One Day At A Time’ citing low ratings
Netflix has cancelled family sitcom One Day At A Time after three series. The streaming…
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Netflix’s Sarandos, Amazon’s Brown set for Series Mania
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos and Amazon Studios’ European originals boss Georgia Brown are…
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Netflix plans aggressive push into India
Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos has confirmed that the streamer is planning an aggressive push…
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Netflix secures talent deal with Jason Bateman’s Aggregate
SVOD platform Netflix has unveiled a first-look, multi-year deal across film and television with Aggregate,…
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Obamas enter the TV business via partnership with Netflix
Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama have unveiled plans to make…
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Netflix ups originals spend to 85% of content budget
Netflix’s originals budget continues to grow with roughly 85% of its new content spend now…
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Netflix reaches 125m subs with revenue surge for Q1
Netflix added a record number of first quarter subscribers and grew its streaming revenues by…
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Barack Obama in talks to produce Netflix shows
Former President Barack Obama is set to produce a series of high-profile series for SVOD…
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Ryan Murphy exits Fox for exclusive $300m Netflix deal
Netflix has pulled off perhaps its biggest production coup to date by prising US super-producer…
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Netflix raises further $1.6bn for content spend
Netflix has announced plans to raise US$1.6 billion from investors, a week after the SVOD…
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Netflix taps DreamWorks creative head for kids role
Netflix has hired DreamWorks’ Melissa Cobb to lead its kids and family content team. As…
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Netflix CFO defends $6bn content spend
Netflix financial chief David Wells has claimed Netflix’s multi-billion dollar content spend is the key…
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Shonda Rhimes ditches ABC for Netflix
Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes is bringing her Shondaland production company to Netflix under a…
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David Letterman makes his return on Netflix
David Letterman, who retired his long running show The Late Show in 2015, is returning…
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Millarworld deal marks Netflix’s first acquisition
SVOD giant Netflix has entered the mergers and acquisitions market for the first time by…
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Netflix expands Lat Am & India investment
Netflix is looking to expand Latin American investments, confirming it will host 50 new and…
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Netflix talks YouTube envy, faith programming, sleep
Netflix bosses have told investors they have ‘YouTube envy’ and are looking to global shows…
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Netflix continues originals push
Streaming service Netflix has acquired global rights to Noah Baumbach’s latest film, and ordered a…
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Netflix product chief exits after 18 years
Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt is leaving the subscription VOD service after nearly two…
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Netflix hires ex-Universal exec to run movies
Netflix has hired former Universal exec Scott Stuber to head up its ongoing drive into…
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INTV: Fox looks to Wade to revitalise reality
Fox Television Group co-chairman and CEO Dana Walden has backed Fox’s new reality chief to…
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Netflix claims $1.75bn Europe spend
Netflix has launched a European charm offensive, claiming a to-date spend of US$1.75 billion in…
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Jerry Seinfeld leaves Crackle for Netflix
US streamer Netflix has pulled off a big-money coup by signing comedian and writer Jerry…