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Netflix has started testing ads between TV episodes

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Here’s some worrying – and potentially infuriating – news for Netflix subscribers who’ve grown accustomed to consuming their content ad free, as the streaming service has started testing a new advertising feature between TV episodes. The new function inserts full screen, personalised video ads in between episodes, which showcase content that Netflix would usually suggest […]

The Crown adds Josh O’Connor and Marion Bailey

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As Netflix gears up for the third season of The Crown, the series has added two more additions to its cast, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that Josh O’Connor (Florence Foster Jenkins) will portray Prince Charles and Marion Bailey (Allied) as the Queen Mother. The pair are replacing Julian Baring and Victoria Hamilton in the roles from […]

Marvel’s Iron Fist season 2 teaser trailer and premiere date revealed at Comic-Con

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Yesterday at its Hall H panel at the San Diego Comic Con, Iron Fist surprised many by revealing that season two is coming sooner than some may have thought. Iron Fist will return to Netflix on September 7th. The panel also shared a teaser for the upcoming season of Marvel’s Netflix series. Check it out below… Iron Fist season 2 […]

Sibongile Mlambo upped to series regular for Lost in Space season 2

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Netflix’s reboot of Lost in Space has just upped one of its recurring stars to a regular cast member. Sibongile Mlambo, who portrays Angela Goodard in the series, has become a series regular for the second season of the sci-fi reboot. Mlambo appeared in five episodes of the first season. Angela was one of the surviving crew […]

13 Reasons Why renewed for third season

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Just a couple weeks after 13 Reasons Why premiered its second season, Netflix has announced it has renewed the series for a third season. Coming in 2019, the series will begin production on 13 new episodes later this year. Series creator and showrunner Brian Yorkey will return for the third season and will executive produce alongside Joy […]

Uma Thurman to star in Netflix’s supernatural series Chambers

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Netflix has cast Kill Bill star Uma Thurman in the upcoming supernatural series Chambers. The series was created by Leah Rachel who will co-showrun with Luke Cage‘s Akela Cooper and will be produced by Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of Traffic. Chambers centers on a young heart attack survivor who becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding the heart that saved her […]

Alex Garland is “not interested” in making an Annihilation sequel

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Director Alex Garland has often spoken of his disdain for sequels and it seems that his hit sci-fi Annihilation is not going to be the exception to the rule. In an interview to promote the film’s DVD release, Garland told IndieWire that he has no plans to adapt the other books in Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Southern […]

Sense8: The Series Finale gets a trailer from Netflix

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Netflix has released a trailer for Sense8: The Series Finale, which serves as a two-hour finale to the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski’s acclaimed sci-fi drama series after Netflix cancelled the series without a proper resolution. Check it out below… Sense8 is centered around eight characters, from different parts of the world, who experience a violent vision, and […]

Netflix orders Sex Education with Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield

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Netflix has ordered a new dramedy series called Sex Education starring The X-Files lead Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game). It comes from the British production company Eleven Film. Anderson will star as a sex therapist while Butterfield will portray her son, Otis Thompson. Otis is a socially awkward high school virgin who lives his mother. He teams […]