One of Netflix's first original hits, Orange is the New Black, will end next year, the company has revealed. The seventh season will be the show's last, bringing closure to a show that has seen generally favorable viewer reviews. The reason for choosing to end the show has not been revealed, but we do know the Final Season will arrive next summer.
Netflix revealed its third quarter 2018 fiscal results today, taking time to discuss business as well as numbers. Among other things, company CEO Reed Hastings brought up the European Union's heavily criticized "content quota" for streaming companies, warning that it may negatively impact both customers and creativity. Rather than focus on the companies, Hastings says countries can bolster local content by creating incentives for local creators.
Marvel and Netflix's collaboration to create their own TV show-format superhero universe for the streaming service has been a big success over the last few years. That's why it came as a surprise on Friday when the companies revealed that Iron Fist was not being renewed after its second season, making it the first cancellation in the Defenders collection of shows, which also includes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage.
Netflix has purchased its first production studio complex in a deal that it says will result in up to 1,000 jobs every year. The purchase is for ABQ Studios in New Mexico, where Netflix anticipates its new facility will bring in $1 billion production dollars over the next decade. The company says it is in the final negotiations for the deal, which hasn't yet closed.
Netflix has acquired the rights to develop an original series based on C.S. Lewis' hit fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. The announcement mentions both a "new series" and "film projects," indicating this could be a massive undertaking for the company with both episodic and movie projects in the works. The agreement is described as a multi-year deal between The C.S. Lewis Company and Netflix.
Netflix is about to launch a choose-your-own-adventure video for adults, according to new reports, building upon the interactive content it has already launched for kids. The new ability will first come to a new episode of Black Mirror, sources claim, but other specials with the same interactive choices are said to also be in development.
This week the folks at Caavo revealed a device that'll control ALL your stuff. Not your smart home stuff - this isn't about lights or sensors or anything - this is for your TV and your varied media-output devices. Caavo can connect your TV to your Amazon Fire TV (or better yet NVIDIA SHIELD TV) or Apple TV, set-top boxes of many sorts, gaming consoles like Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and whatever other oddities you've got delivering signal via HDMI.
This week the folks at TiVo revealed a new DVR set-top box that combines antenna-based television with streaming video services. TiVo BOLT OTA, it's called, and watching and recording local TV programming, national news, sports, and entertainment is its game. But it's also able to connect with services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video.
Netflix is gearing up to launch an original animated series based on the popular Diablo video game franchise, according to a newly published tweet. The tip comes from Boom! Studios founder Andrew "Andy" Cosby, who published a brief statement on his Twitter account. According to it, Cosby and Netflix are in "final talks" over the series.
Back in 2015, an original documentary series by the name of Making a Murderer took Netflix by storm. Even if you didn't watch it yourself, you likely heard about it from someone who did. Fast forward to today and Netflix is primed to deliver a follow-up to that successful series, as it's announced the release date for Making a Murderer Part 2.
Netflix has announced a new program that will apply a logo to products that meet the company's delivery and technical specs. Called the Netflix Post Technology Alliance, the new logo program is intended to help content creators choose the tools that best enable them to create videos for the service. Manufacturers working with Netflix will apply the logo to their qualifying products.
A survey run each year called the Prophet Brand Relevance Index (BRI) shows the role company brands play in people's lives. This year is the fourth in which the Brand Relevance Index was run in the United States, and the analysts at Prophet have some interesting results to share. While we'd expect brands like Google and Samsung to be running up closer to the top of the study's resulting "relevant brands" list, it's Apple that takes the cake this year.