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23-07-2025
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Korean Media Leads Netflix Weekly Charts Again With ‘Kpop Demon Hunters' & ‘Squid Game'; ‘Sullivan's Crossing' Sparks Interest Ahead Of Season 3
Korean media is still taking Netflix by storm as KPop Demon Hunters and Squid Game led the service from July 7 to 13. The most-watched title on the platform last week, KPop Demon Hunters racked up 24.2M views to put it back atop the English films list. More from Deadline Bela Bajaria Is Cheerleading Netflix's "Breadth" Of Emmy Noms & First-Time Emmy Nominees 'Adolescence' Co-Creators Stephen Graham And Jack Thorne Considering New Story "Not About The Millers"; Graham's New Friendship With Springsteen Owen Cooper Says 'Adolescence' Got So Big, Jacob Elordi Roasted Him During 'Wuthering Heights' Shoot Meanwhile, Squid Game Season 3 topped the non-English TV charts with another 15.9M views. The third installment has managed 122.2M views since its release on June 27, already making it the third most popular non-English series on Netflix, behind only Seasons 1 and 2 of the Korean drama. Speaking of, both prior installments were also back on the weekly Top 10 list as well. It was quite a quiet week on the English TV side of things, with Season 2 of The Sandman taking the top spot. The episodes, which premiered on July 3, amassed 5.9M views in its first full week. This is a decline for the series, considering Season 1 finished its second week of availability with around 11.5M views. However, by the third week, the series was sitting at a similar benchmark. The Sandman is ending with Season 2, marking a solid run for the comic adaptation, which ahead of the second season became embroiled sexual assault and misconduct allegations against Neil Gaiman, who created the comic on which the series is based and developed and executive produces the Netflix series. Gaiman has denied the allegations. Kevin Williamson's The Waterfront stuck around in second place this week, and the CW drama Sullivan's Crossing took third. The Canadian series has, like many other series, found new life on Netflix after the first two seasons were made available on July 8. The series managed about 3M views last week, which is pretty strong given that the series is not available globally, only in the U.S. and Canada. Season 3 is currently airing on the CW, so it will be interesting to see whether this impacts its linear performance at all. The new season is set to land on Netflix in August. In the world of live events, Netflix aired yet another match up between professional boxers Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano on Friday. Data from VideoAmp, released by the streamer, said that about 6M viewers tuned in globally during the main event, though Netflix has the fight ranked at No. 5 with 2.8M views. The best explanation for this discrepancy is that the streamer uses total streaming time divided by runtime to report viewership, which does not effectively account for co-viewing. Co-viewing is incredibly common, especially for live events as audiences typically gather to watch together, so the VideoAmp data probably gives a better idea of just how many people were tuned in for this one. Notably missing from last week's Top 10 is Lena Dunham's latest comedy series Too Much. The 10-episode series starring Megan Stalter premiered on July 10, so it is still in its early days. Its absence from the rankings suggest it pulled in around or under 2M views in its first few days on Netflix, given that was the tally for No. 10's Ms. Rachel. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Amazon's 'Verity' Movie So Far 'Street Fighter' Cast: Who's Who In The Live-Action Arcade Film Adaption 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More Solve the daily Crossword
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23-07-2025
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Wednesday Snags Early Renewal for Season 3, Spinoff Also In the Works at Netflix
Just two weeks ahead of its Season 2 premiere on Netflix, Wednesday has scored an early renewal for Season 3, according to THR. Showrunners Alfred Gough and Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria also revealed that a Wednesday spinoff is in the works, though details remain a secret for now. 'It's something we're definitely noodling,' said Gough. 'There are other characters we can look at.' More from TVLine The Sandman Unleashed? EP Teases Morpheus Will 'Get Rid of Those Chains' in Back Half of Final Season KPop Demon Hunters Delivers a Netflix First While Repeating at No. 1 on English Films Chart Casting News: Friday the 13th Prequel Casts Young Jason, an SVU Promotion and More Added Bajaria: 'There's a lot to explore in the Addams Family.' Season 2, which will drop in two parts on Aug. 6 and Sept. 3, finds Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) returning to school — or 'the scene of the crime,' as she calls it in the trailer — where she's hailed as 'the savior of Nevermore,' a title she takes on with great reluctance. And if her visions of Enid's (Emma Myers) impending death turn out to be true, she may be forced to play the savior yet again. Wednesday's Season 2 cast also includes Steve Buscemi as Principal Dort, Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay, Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger, Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams, Owen Painter as Slurp, Billie Piper as Isadora Capri, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Sheriff Rita Santiago, Victor Dorobantu as Thing, Noah B. Taylor as Bruno, Evie Templeton as Agnes DeMille and Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams. More to come… Best of TVLine 'Missing' Shows, Found! Get the Latest on Ahsoka, Monarch, P-Valley, Sugar, Anansi Boys and 25+ Others Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More
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18-07-2025
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Bela Bajaria on Which Emmy Nominee She Texted First and One Giant 'Disappointment' of a Snub
While still in the construction phase, the new Netflix campus in New Jersey might want to dedicate a bit more square footage to its trophy case. On Tuesday morning, Netflix received 120 nominations for the 2025 Emmy Awards. That's a ton, only outdone by the combination of HBO and Max (now HBO Max, again) — so first place may be a bit up for debate. This is all temporary anyway: Bela Bajaria vs. Casey Bloys (and maybe Matt Cherniss) won't really be decided until Sept. 14. More from The Hollywood Reporter But What if "Balloon Boy" Wasn't a Hoax? First-Time Nominee Cooper Koch Is "Devastated" Over Emmy Snubs for Two of His 'Monsters' Co-Stars Emmys: Listen to 66 Nominees on THR's 'Awards Chatter' Podcast The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the Bajaria a few hours after the Emmy nominees came out. She's a busy woman, and 44 nominated shows make for a hell of a lot of text chains; read on to find out which Netflix nominee Bajaria messaged first, what show was her snubbiest snub, and if four nods for The Residence is making her second guess the decision to cancel the one-and-done whodunit series. *** What is your reaction to this morning's results? Look, I'm so happy and proud to have 120 nominations. But for me, really, the amazing thing is it's also across 44 titles and 14 different programming categories. Why that's also important and I'm excited about it — you know, we always aim for excellence in television across every different kind of category, because we know audiences love everything from animation to live to docs to unscripted to drama to comedy to limited to stand-up… To have those all being recognized — that work with all that talent across all of those categories is really exciting and rewarding. I also love it when we work with this incredible talent who are first-timers, right? This is where they get their first Emmy nomination. And to have the range from somebody like [15-year-old Adolescence star] Owen Cooper — [Adolescence] is actually the first thing that he's done, to having first-time nominations for people like Javier Bardem (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story) and Adam Brody and Kristen Bell (both for Nobody Wants This) and Stephen Graham (Adolescence), who have such a long body of work, such an extensive body work, and then this is their first nomination. That is really rewarding and exciting for us. You can't exactly send Owen champagne… (Laughs) Yes, exactly. He's gonna get a nice sparkling apple cider or something. Where were you when the nominations came in? We do a really great, I think, really fun thing with the team. Many of us, get together in the home theater downstairs on Netflix. It's PR and the awards team and marketing and executives and everybody from all over, cross-functionally. And we all sit in that room and we all cheer together — it's so fun. We're either on the phone or live-texting our nominees as they get their news, which is so great. It's a really fun thing because there's a lot of people, cross-functionally, who work so hard on these — who care so much. Because I think the one thing that is lost sometimes is like, we greenlight something, you champion it, you believe in it… You're in this journey through all of these shows and the launch and — everybody's invested, and so it's really great to kind of do that together in that way. Who was your very first outgoing text to? OK, you're keeping me honest here. I'm actually looking at my texts for you…My first one was to Kristen Bell. My early ones were Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, Adam Sandler (Adam Sandler: Love You), Deb Cahn for The Diplomat — so it kind of went a little bit of like, you know, what [categories were] announced sort of early on — Charlotte Jones for America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. And then I did sort of a group one to to the Adolescence team, because we're on a group chain. How do you not make Beyoncé your first text? You for that — everyone would understand. (Laughs) Yes, exactly. I should just wait [for her category]. Never underestimate Queen Bey. Not surprised by Beyoncé Bowl nomination…I bet on Beyoncé all day long. You probably were right to start with Kristen Bell over Sandler. She's responsible enough to actually be awake and ready for her day. (Laughs) Yes, yes. Ryan Murphy was right in there because Ryan had lots for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story… So you fell back to second place vs. HBO and Max — you guys seem to swap slots each year… Well, look, there's two different things. They have the combination right of two different things, right? It's Max plus HBO, which gets them [an advantage]. We play a different game in the sense that we have so many members and an audience with lots of different tastes and moods, and we want to make sure that we have great programming in all of those areas, right? We know that people love to watch The Diplomat, Adolescence and America's Sweethearts, right? And many of those people also, you know, watch (steampunk animated series) Arcane. We're just in a different — we just sort of look at what we're doing, right? We're also trying to do something that no one has ever done before — you know, making film and TV all around the world across as many genres, like all over the world in so many languages…we're just doing it different. We're one Netflix. Did any specific Netflix Emmy 'snubs' bother you more than others? If Emmy nominations are supposed to be really about excellence in storytelling and something that is so amazing that people watch and talk about and love, and have the quality and acting and writing and directing and cultural impact, the one I'm disappointed about is that the world's biggest show, Squid Game, did not get recognized. Obviously, it made Emmy history also already, but a show in Korean, made in that way so authentically, has become the biggest show in the world, and to be so groundbreaking in storytelling and just the cultural global impact it had. That's the one to me that would be the disappointment for all the talent involved. The news of the cancellation came to us just two weeks ago — would you have rather that decision not be made public ahead of nominations? No, I don't really look at when the news or not the news…I think was is great is — we love The Residence. We championed it, we made it. Uzo [Aduba] has been part of the Netflix family for a long time and has been recognized before for awards. So, she gave an incredible performance. Not surprised at all by her nom. We thought that she would and should absolutely get it. So, to me, that's great, that work. That work was completed and people loved it, and she was amazing and then gets recognized for it. That's great. That, to me, doesn't change kind of the story. And moving forward, it's like, 'Isn't it great that we made this, she was incredible and she got recognized.' I know a lot of factors go into a cancellation, but does getting four Emmy nominations make you second guess that decision? No, because I always knew she'd be recognized. Will Netflix campaign for a canceled show as hard as it would for one that is ongoing? We're gonna support— yeah! I mean for her and the show, like, we did — of course. Here's the thing: I think what people forget is, like I said before, we developed it, we championed it, we really marketed — we did all of the things. And they're all people involved who we work with and continue to work with and will continue to — so we're always going to support that, for sure. You have five of the six prerecord variety special nominees. One of those is Y. Nate is hosting the Emmys, so you have to like your odds there… (Laughs) Is that how it works when you have the host [as one of your nominees]? Definitely, they just give you one. Oh good. Yeah, they give you one. Right, right, right, right, right, yeah. So we have five of the six [nominees], and we're definitely getting [that] one? Yeah. It's like when my dad coached Little League and he picked me as one of the team's two all-stars — nobody can say anything about it. Oh yeah, you get one. There you go. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise Solve the daily Crossword
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16-07-2025
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Netflix boss doesn't regret The Residence axing despite Emmy nominations
Netflix boss Bela Bajaria doesn't regret cancelling The Residence despite its Emmy nominations. The streaming giant's chief content officer has reflected on her decision to scrap the murder mystery comedy - which starred Uzo Abuda as police consultant Cordelia Cupp - after the show received a number of nominations for this year's Primetime Emmy Awards. Asked if she has second guessed the decision to pull the plug, Bela told The Hollywood Reporter: "No, because I always knew she'd be recognised." Uzo was shortlisted in the Best Actress in a Comedy Series category, while the show's first episode The Fall of the House of Usher has been nominated for Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Single Episode. The episode is also in the running for Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour Or More). Bela insisted she "loves" the series, and has no regrets about the news of its cancellation dropping two weeks before the Emmy nominations. She said: "No, I don't really look at when the news or not the news… I think was is great is — we love The Residence. We championed it, we made it. "Uzo [Aduba] has been part of the Netflix family for a long time and has been recognized before for awards. So, she gave an incredible performance. "Not surprised at all by her nom. We thought that she would and should absolutely get it. So, to me, that's great, that work. That work was completed and people loved it, and she was amazing and then gets recognised for it." She claimed the focus is more on how "great" the programme and Uzo both were. Bela also claimed Netflix will back cancelled shows in award season just as much as those on air. She added: "We're gonna support— yeah! I mean for her and the show, like, we did — of course. "Here's the thing: I think what people forget is, like I said before, we developed it, we championed it, we really marketed — we did all of the things. "And they're all people involved who we work with and continue to work with and will continue to — so we're always going to support that, for sure."
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16-07-2025
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Korean Media Leads Netflix Weekly Charts Again With ‘Kpop Demon Hunters' & ‘Squid Game'; ‘Sullivan's Crossing' Sparks Interest Ahead Of Season 3
Korean media is still taking Netflix by storm as KPop Demon Hunters and Squid Game led the service from July 7 to 13. The most-watched title on the platform last week, KPop Demon Hunters racked up 24.2M views to put it back atop the English films list. More from Deadline Bela Bajaria Is Cheerleading Netflix's "Breadth" Of Emmy Noms & First-Time Emmy Nominees 'Adolescence' Co-Creators Stephen Graham And Jack Thorne Considering New Story "Not About The Millers"; Graham's New Friendship With Springsteen Owen Cooper Says 'Adolescence' Got So Big, Jacob Elordi Roasted Him During 'Wuthering Heights' Shoot Meanwhile, Squid Game Season 3 topped the non-English TV charts with another 15.9M views. The third installment has managed 122.2M views since its release on June 27, already making it the third most popular non-English series on Netflix, behind only Seasons 1 and 2 of the Korean drama. Speaking of, both prior installments were also back on the weekly Top 10 list as well. It was quite a quiet week on the English TV side of things, with Season 2 of The Sandman taking the top spot. The episodes, which premiered on July 3, amassed 5.9M views in its first full week. This is a decline for the series, considering Season 1 finished its second week of availability with around 11.5M views. However, by the third week, the series was sitting at a similar benchmark. The Sandman is ending with Season 2, marking a solid run for the comic adaptation, which ahead of the second season became embroiled sexual assault and misconduct allegations against Neil Gaiman, who created the comic on which the series is based and developed and executive produces the Netflix series. Gaiman has denied the allegations. Kevin Williamson's The Waterfront stuck around in second place this week, and the CW drama Sullivan's Crossing took third. The Canadian series has, like many other series, found new life on Netflix after the first two seasons were made available on July 8. The series managed about 3M views last week, which is pretty strong given that the series is not available globally, only in the U.S. and Canada. Season 3 is currently airing on the CW, so it will be interesting to see whether this impacts its linear performance at all. The new season is set to land on Netflix in August. In the world of live events, Netflix aired yet another match up between professional boxers Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano on Friday. Data from VideoAmp, released by the streamer, said that about 6M viewers tuned in globally during the main event, though Netflix has the fight ranked at No. 5 with 2.8M views. The best explanation for this discrepancy is that the streamer uses total streaming time divided by runtime to report viewership, which does not effectively account for co-viewing. Co-viewing is incredibly common, especially for live events as audiences typically gather to watch together, so the VideoAmp data probably gives a better idea of just how many people were tuned in for this one. Notably missing from last week's Top 10 is Lena Dunham's latest comedy series Too Much. The 10-episode series starring Megan Stalter premiered on July 10, so it is still in its early days. Its absence from the rankings suggest it pulled in around or under 2M views in its first few days on Netflix, given that was the tally for No. 10's Ms. Rachel. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Amazon's 'Verity' Movie So Far 'Street Fighter' Cast: Who's Who In The Live-Action Arcade Film Adaption 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More
