Entertainment
Netflix Hits with New Documentaries and Dramas
Netflix has released several new projects, including the highly viewed 'Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,' a documentary on British traveller community weddings titled 'My Big Day,' and a renewed series 'Crew Girl' for its second season. These additions continue to diversify Netflix's content offerings.
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Variety
It may be some time before cameras begin to roll on Jon M. Chu’s Britney Spears movie biopic, but the “Wicked” filmmaker has read some of the script from writer Liz Meriwether. “She’s doing many beautiful things and I may or may have not gotten glimpses of what she’s been doing and it’s incredible,”
2026-09-22 18:52 UTC
Variety
Netflix has commissioned a new documentary from Optomen focusing on weddings in Britain’s traveller community. Provisionally titled “My Big Day,” the feature-length doc will follow young couples as they prepare for their nuptials, some of which have turned into jaw-dropping spectacles as the pressur
2026-09-22 18:55 UTC
Variety
Despite the generic title, “Voices” is quite the novelty. Mixing the rarely combined genres of chamber thriller and musical, the film takes place almost entirely in one location — a Detroit motel room in 1967 — and focuses on just three characters. The actors start singing at the most tense moments,
2026-09-22 18:57 UTC
Variety
“Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” shot to the No. 1 spot on the Netflix Top 10 after its debut last week, reaching a strong 12.2 million views in its first four days of streaming. That puts the project on par with the two most recent editions of Ryan Murphy’s “Monster”
2026-09-22 19:00 UTC
Deadline
There will be more Crew Girl in our future. Netflix has renewed the popular YA drama for a second season. Written by Vivian Lin, Crew Girl is described as a frothy, coming-of-age teen drama about a 16-year-old female rower Teagan (Miku Martineau) who becomes the coxswain of a dysfunctional all-boys
2026-09-22 19:02 UTC