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Netflix Expands Content Portfolio
Netflix is expanding its content portfolio with several new projects. The company will release a complete Blu-ray box set of the comedy series ‘Hacks’ and adapt Roald Dahl’s short stories into a drama series, while also considering casting Meghan Markle in Season 3 of 'The Gentlemen.'
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Variety
Netflix has ordered a series adaptation of the New York Times and Serial Productions podcast “The Retrievals.” The announcement was made as part of the Netflix upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on Wednesday. Molly Smith Metzler serves as writer, executive producer and showr
2026-05-13 18:35 UTC
Variety
Netflix is plunging deeper into the Harlan Coben business with a new series based on his Myron Bolitar novels. The 12-novel thriller series will make its screen adaptation debut with help from David E. Kelley (creator of “Big Little Lies,” “Ally McBeal” and more), who will wr
2026-05-13 18:39 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen is bringing some forbidden romance to Calabasas. Netflix has greenlighted Calabasas, a YA drama series from executive producer/showrunner Van Dusen and executive producers Kim Kardashian, Alexandra Milchan and Emma Roberts. The series falls under an over
2026-05-13 18:40 UTC
Variety
Netflix says its influence among people who want to watch commercrials is growing. The streaming titan said Wednesday during its “upfront” presentation to advertisers that its ad-supported subscription tier reaches reaches more than 250 million global monthly active viewers, up from the
2026-05-13 18:42 UTC
Variety
When you’re done keeping up with the Kardashians and devouring the secrets of “Calabasas Confidential,” enter the gates of “Calabasas,” a scripted series set in the Los Angeles enclave. The project, led by “Bridgerton” creator Chris Van Dusen and executive p
2026-05-13 18:43 UTC
Variety
Netflix is adapting Roald Dahl’s short stories into a drama series starring Nicola Coughlan, Naomi Scott, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton and more, continuing its foray into the author’s intellectual property after acquiring the Roald Dahl Story Company in 2021. Though Dahl is best known f
2026-08-26 14:57 UTC
Variety
Here’s something the Little Debbie in your life might want to add to their Christmas gift guide: All five seasons of “Hacks” are about to be packaged in a complete series Blu-ray box set. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has revealed plans to sell “Hacks: The Complete Series” as a Blu-ray
2026-08-26 15:00 UTC
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz has launched her next project – a feature documentary based on an extraordinary 2017 article in The Atlantic magazine titled “My Family’s Slave.” The magazine piece, a personal essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino American writer Alex Tizon, reco
2026-08-26 15:00 UTC
Deadline
Netflix has refused to deny that Meghan Markle is joining Season 3 of The Gentlemen amid fevered speculation about the Duchess of Sussex returning to acting. Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Wednesday, Manda Levin, Netflix’s scripted chief in the UK, was asked whether Markle will appea
2026-08-26 15:05 UTC