Minecraft is becoming a Netflix series, and Stranger Things is becoming game

The pop culture streams are being crossed, as Minecraft gets a series on Netflix and Stranger Things gets a video game adaptation. Both projects are collaborations between Netflix and Telltale Games, the company that has made choice-based games based around The Walking Dead, Game Of Thrones, Batman and Guardians Of The Galaxy in recent years. In a statement to TechRadar, Netflix said this about … >

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Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan announce new Netflix show

Netflix has just announced The Fix, a new unscripted comedy show featuring Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan. Of course, these talented comedians have been hosting Your Face Or Mine together – showing off loads of chemistry – on Comedy Central for the last few years. Variety’s report describes Netflix’s The Fix as “the first comedy show in the world … >

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Netflix announces new Gillian Anderson series, Sex Education

With Fox opting not to press ahead with more episodes of The X-Files, Gillian Anderson has quickly announced a new project: the iconic actress will star in Sex Education for Netflix, an upcoming dramedy about a sex therapist. Anderson’s sex therapist will be on the main characters, and her-onscreen son (played by Asa Butterfield) will be another. The … >

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Netflix has plans for over 400 more originals this year

Netflix continues to be one of the biggest spenders – if not the biggest spender – when it comes to new TV shows at the moment. And the latest from its chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, suggests that there’s a lot more money to come. It reckons it’ll be spending some $8bn on material this … >

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Seven Seconds cancelled by Netflix after one season

It’s never nice to report that a show has been cancelled, but here we are once again: Netflix has opted not to renew Seven Seconds for a season, with the streaming service instead choosing to pull the plug on this crime drama after just one set of episodes. Created and executive produced by The Killing‘s Veena Sud, Seven Seconds had … >

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GLOW season 2 sets release date with brilliant teaser trailer

Thanks to a brilliant little teaser trailer, we now know that the GLOW season 2 release date is June 29th 2018. The second season of Netflix’s hilarious 1980s-set series, which centres on a fictionalised version of the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling, is shaping up to a summertime treat. The entire core cast, including Alison Brie, Marc Maron, Sydelle Noel, Kate … >

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