• Michelle Obama ‘Becoming’ documentary coming to Netflix

    Michelle Obama ‘Becoming’ documentary coming to Netflix

    Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” is quickly becoming this season’s most anticipated streaming release. The documentary debuts worldwide on Netflix May 6 under the same name as the former First Lady’s best-selling memoir. Details about the upcoming feature have been under wraps until now. The Obamas’ Higher Ground production company, which won the Best Documentary Feature Academy …
  • ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ trailer: Viewers guide story in interactive special

    ‘Kimmy Schmidt’ trailer: Viewers guide story in interactive special

    Kimmy Schmidt might be unbreakable, but she can also be seriously indecisive — and that’s where you come in. Netflix on Monday released a full-length trailer for “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend,” an interactive special that will let viewers decide how Kimmy’s final adventure shakes out. Premiering Tuesday, May 12, “Kimmy vs. the …
  • ‘Too Hot to Handle’ producers kept cast drinking to a minimum

    ‘Too Hot to Handle’ producers kept cast drinking to a minimum

    Things aren’t like they used to be on reality TV. Standard operating procedure for dating shows was previously to get the contestants liquored up, and then roll the cameras. But a star of current reality smash “Too Hot to Handle” — the show gets hot, scantily clad single people together on an island and then …
  • Mike Tyson ‘might have’ bought his tigers from ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic

    Mike Tyson ‘might have’ bought his tigers from ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic

    Mike Tyson says the three tigers he owned in the 1990s might have come from “Tiger King” Joe Exotic. Tyson was one of the 64 million viewers around the world who watched the bizarre Netflix docuseries about ex-zookeeper and tiger collector Joe Exotic — now in prison for a murder-for-hire plot and federal wildlife violations. …
  • “Unorthodox” writer details struggle to flee Hasidic community

    “Unorthodox” writer details struggle to flee Hasidic community

    The woman who inspired Netflix hit “Unorthodox” has revealed that she was forced to sell her eggs to make some quick cash after fleeing Williamsburg’s Satmar Hasidic community. Writer Deborah Feldman entered an arranged marriage at 17 years old and left the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect when she was 23 with her 3-year-old son in tow. …
  • Jerry Seinfeld channels James Bond in Netflix special trailer

    Jerry Seinfeld channels James Bond in Netflix special trailer

    His name is Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld. The 65-year-old comic channels legendary spy James Bond in a teaser for his upcoming Netflix stand-up special, “Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours To Kill,” which premieres May 5. The trailer borrows from the infamous “Goldfinger” scene in which the title villain threatens to slice a tied-down 007 in half with …
  • Which ‘Too Hot To Handle’ couples stayed together or broke up?

    Which ‘Too Hot To Handle’ couples stayed together or broke up?

    Nothing — not even tens of thousands of dollars — was going to keep these couples from getting it on. Netflix’s latest wild reality show, “Too Hot To Handle,” forced serial one-night stands to build emotional connections and keep sex out of building relationships. Singles were sent to an island and promised a pot of …
  • Netflix boss Reed Hastings’ pay soared to nearly $39 million last year

    Netflix boss Reed Hastings’ pay soared to nearly $39 million last year

    Streaming giant Netflix gave its top brass a hefty pay day in 2019. Netflix founder and chief executive Reed Hastings saw his compensation jump 7 percent to $38.6 million last year, versus pay of $36.1 million in 2018, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. Hastings’ No. 2, Ted Sarandos, the company’s chief content officer, got …
  • Netflix adds record 16M subscribers in first quarter amid coronavirus

    Netflix adds record 16M subscribers in first quarter amid coronavirus

    Netflix’s subscriber base is exploding as people holed up at home to avoid the coronavirus become video-bingeing couch potatoes. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based video-streaming giant added a record 15.8 million paying streaming customers in the first quarter of 2020 — more than twice the 7 million it had forecast in January before the coronavirus pandemic …
  • ‘Tiger King’ had a ferocious 64M viewers so far, Netflix says

    ‘Tiger King’ had a ferocious 64M viewers so far, Netflix says

    As the streaming wars kick it up to the next level with Peacock and soon HBO Max on the battlefield, a surging Netflix made it very apparent who is still king, in no small part thanks to the success of “Tiger King” and the return of “Money Heist.” In an investor letter released today for …