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“Dark Desire” is being hyped as Netflix’s steamiest title yet. The series, debuting on the streaming giant after a successful run as “Oscuro Deseo” in Mexico, follows Alma (Maite Perroni) a lawyer and college professor who is also a mother married to a judge. On a weekend trip with a girlfriend, she has an illicit …
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A California judge has given Mo’Nique the ok to proceed with her racial and gender bias lawsuit against Netflix. The comedian and “Precious” Oscar winner, whose real name is Monique Hicks, claimed the $500,000 she was first offered by Netflix in 2017 for a stand-up special was not just an insult but also illegal. Mo’Nique’s …
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Father’s Day is long over, but there’s a new “daddy” causing a stir. Zac Efron — who morphed from a hunky high schooler in “High School Musical” to a ripped lifeguard in 2018’s “Baywatch” reboot — has reinvented himself yet again in his new Netflix series. Fans are dubbing the 32-year-old actor a dad with …
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Netflix said it tapped its longtime content chief Ted Sarandos to run the streaming giant alongside its founder Reed Hastings — just in time to deal with fears that growth will slow. Hastings said the promotion of the 20-year Netflix veteran — known for pushing the company to produce its own shows — won’t affect …
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This isn’t your usual round table tale. The new Netflix show “Cursed” reimagines the origin story for King Arthur, Merlin and Lancelot — literary characters who have become pop culture staples in countless movies and shows. But central to this retelling is a young Lady of the Lake, played by Katherine Langford. Premiering Friday, the …
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Lazy TV viewers didn’t know what they had until it was gone. The ability to choose what to watch on demand is what drove consumers to streaming in the first place. Now, with thousands of movies and series to select from on over 200 streaming networks globally, users are suffering choice paralysis, because even picking a …
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Comic Donnell Rawlings told us that Dave Chappelle’s socially distanced, star-studded July Fourth festival in Ohio could wind up as a Netflix film. The show in Chappelle’s hometown included Questlove, Common, Tiffany Haddish and Erykah Badu. “The thing with Dave is that he likes to film the happenings in his life, documentary style, like when …
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Justin Hartley and Chrishell Stause’s divorce came as a shock to many — including Stause, 38, who admitted to being “blindsided” in the trailer for Season 3 of “Selling Sunset.” But her co-star, Christine Quinn, reveals the couple was seeking help for their marital issues before they split. “We all just thought maybe they were …
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Real estate mogul Jason Oppenheim “didn’t really” want to do “Selling Sunset,” the Netflix show centered around his brokerage firm, The Oppenheim Group. “I’d been approached, probably for a good year, maybe year and a half, by different producers and agents and we didn’t want to do a show. So we’d taken a couple of …
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“Unsolved Mysteries” returns July 1 on Netflix with a slate of new episodes. The classic series, most memorably hosted by Robert Stack, aired (in different iterations) from 1987-2010 on NBC, CBS, Lifetime and Spike, using reenactments and interviews to document cold cases involving true crime and the paranormal. The new “Unsolved Mysteries,” brought to life …
“Dark Desire” is being hyped as Netflix’s steamiest title yet. The series, debuting on the streaming giant after a successful run as “Oscuro Deseo” in Mexico, follows Alma (Maite Perroni) a lawyer and college professor who is also a mother married to a judge. On a weekend trip with a girlfriend, she has an illicit …
