Netflix has temporarily suspended production of its Cowboy Bebop original after its lead actor John Cho suffered a knee injury on set. Reports of the incident refer to it as a 'freak accident' during what was a highly rehearsed scene, one that unfortunately requires surgery to treat. It will take seven to nine months before production resumes.
Once upon a time, the holiday season meant tuning into ABC Family and the Hallmark Channel for the opportunity to endlessly binge on cheesy Christmas specials. Things have changed, however, and many consumers are turning to on-demand streaming services for their entertainment needs. Here to fill the void is Netflix, which is planning a huge batch of holiday specials over the next two months.
If you're still using a very old Roku device, you're about to lose access to Netflix. The streaming service started notifying customers by email to let them know that it will be dropping support for some of the oldest Roku devices still in use, forcing consumers to finally upgrade to something newer, whether that means getting a new Roku model or a competing streaming option like Chromecast or Fire TV.
Netflix has released one of its latest original movies: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Story. As its name suggests, the movie is based on the Breaking Bad television series, telling the story of character Jesse Pinkman after he escaped from his imprisonment at the end of the TV show's run. The movie has only arrived, but it has already received high reviews from viewers.
Hit automotive soccer game Rocket League is getting a Stranger Things crossover in time for Halloween. The plan was announced this week by developer Psyonix, which has released a video and series of high-res images showing off several new car designs. The game will be going into The Upside Down, according to the company, featuring the Farmstead arena and Mind Flayer.
Netflix has announced plans to launch a spinoff of its original adult animated sitcom Big Mouth. The new series will be called Human Resources and it'll focus specifically on the monsters we see in the primary show. The company announced its plan at the New York Comic Con alongside a short teaser trailer giving us a brief look at the monsters' world.
Netflix has released the trailer for 6 Underground, an original movie from Michael Bay that stars Ryan Reynolds of Deadpool fame. Anyone familiar with Michael Bay movies will recognize the filmmaker's style, including a mixture of dramatic music punctuating narrative that is interspersed between explosions and clips of action. We now know when the movie will be available to stream on the platform.
As expected, Netflix has renewed its hit original Stranger Things for a fourth season, dropping the news with a brief teaser. The company is hinting at a big change in the series, one that will involve leaving the fictional city of Hawkins, Indiana. In its announcement today, Netflix said showrunners The Duffer Brothers will return for the upcoming season under a multi-year deal that'll include a movie.
One of Netflix's earliest and most successful original shows is coming to an end with its sixth season. The company announced that BoJack Horseman will wrap things up with a two-part season, the first of which will arrive on the streaming platform next month. The company has released a short trailer teasing this show's final batch of episodes, and it comes in the form of a letter.
Wildly popular television series Breaking Bad will return in the form of a Netflix movie called El Camino. The story won't feature Walter White for reasons that are obvious to anyone who finished watching the series. Rather, fans will get a proper conclusion to the Jesse Pinkman storyline, revealing what happened after he made his final escape in the show's series finale.
As far as sitcoms go, there's few out there that are as enduringly popular as Seinfeld. Despite that popularity (or as a symptom of it), those who want to stream the show here in 2019 are limited in their options. Though services like YouTube and Amazon have digital episodes and seasons for sale, the only subscription service on which you can stream Seinfeld is Hulu - at least here in the US.
Netflix popularized binge-watching by dropping all of the episodes in a season at the same time. This is a bittersweet arrangement: while it enables users to enjoy multiple episodes in the same time period, viewers also complain that they end up watching an entire season over a few days, leaving them with a year or longer to wait until the next season arrives. Competitor Hulu follows a more traditional arrangement.