8 h. ago Squid Game season three breaks Netflix viewership record with 60.1m views

Final season of the smash series scores a new record for the streaming platform in the first three daysThe third and final season of the hit Korean series Squid Game has broken records to become the biggest-ever TV launch for Netflix.Over its first three days, the series racked up more than 60.1m views, a new high for the streamer, with more than 368.4m hours viewed. The second season launched with 68m views but over a four-day period last December. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Netflix viewers distraught after shock removal announcement of 'one of the best shows ever released'

Netflix is set to remove one of its most popular foreign shows this month and fans aren't happy about it. 

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17 h. ago Huge Netflix update will impact 700 million viewers as new collaboration unveiled

Netflix has announced a new partnership that will bring additional live content to customers at no extra charge, having unveiled a collaboration with space agency NASA

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8 d. ago ‘People like happy endings. Sorry!’ Squid Game’s brutal finale hits new heights of barbarity

As the shockingly violent anticapitalist hit returns, its star and creator talk about spinoffs, the dangers of desensitisation, David Fincher’s mooted remake – and why they couldn’t say no to tie-ins with McDonald’s and UberWhen season two of Squid Game dropped, fans were split in their response to Netflix’s hit Korean drama. While some viewers loved the dialled-up-to-11 intensity of everything – more characters, more drama, more staggering brutality – others found the tone relentlessly bleak. And this was a show whose original concept – a cabal of rich benefactors recruit poor people to compete in bloodsports for cash – was already plenty dark. Anyone hoping the show’s third and final season, arriving this week, will provide a reprieve should probably just rewatch Emily in Paris instead.“The tone is going to be more dark and bleak,” says series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, through an interpreter. “The world, as I observe it, has less hope. I wanted to explore questions like, ‘What is t...

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8 d. ago Netflix documentary Grenfell: Uncovered branded 'damning' by heartbroken viewers

Viewers are re-living the 2017 inferno and the devastating aftermath in Grenfell: Uncovered as Netflix shines a light on the struggle for justice eight year on from the blaze

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1 week ago Netflix period drama fans say 'stunning' show is 'better than Bridgerton series one'

The Bridgerton universe has taken the world by storm, with Netflix viewers obsessed over the latest instalment - Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story - which has been dubbed 'better than season one'

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1 week ago Netflix Titan viewers horrified over OceanGate CEO chilling remark minutes before sub implosion

Netflix viewers have been left 'freaking out' about a documentary about the fatal Titan submarine implosion in 2023

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1 week ago Titan viewers left unsettled by OceanGate CEO’s chilling comment in Netflix documentary

‘I’m only five minutes in and I’m already freaked out,’ one viewer said

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2 w. ago Netflix thriller leaves viewers 'gripped' with retelling of true story

Directed by Thomas M. Wright, The Stranger is a psychological crime thriller that is inspired by the real-life investigation of 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe

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2 w. ago Netflix viewers obsessed with 'ruthless' show they can't stop watching

Netflix viewers have been left completely obsessed with a show that is so gripping, fans say that viewers won't be able to stop watching it once they've started

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2 w. ago Florida sheds 20 tons of invasive pythons in effort to curb its population

The increase in Burmese pythons had resulted in loss of animals native to the EvergladesIt was a milestone moment in Florida’s 25-year war on invasive Burmese pythons: an eye-popping announcement that biologists had removed 20 tons of the slithering invaders from waters in and around the Everglades in little more than a decade, as well as shattering their previous record for a single-season haul.The successes of the team at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida showcase the progress that has been made in efforts to reverse the snakes’ takeover of the state’s natural wilderness, even though experts concede they will probably never be completely eradicated. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Titan viewers left disturbed by OceanGate CEO’s chilling comment in Netflix documentary

‘I’m only five minutes in and I’m already freaked out,’ one viewer said

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2 w. ago Netflix gives forgotten ITV series about British icon a new lease of life

Netflix viewers are loving the drama

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2 w. ago Netflix period drama has viewers 'mesmerised' with 'great twist'

The Pale Blue Eye, a 2022 mystery film, stars Christian Bale as detective Augustus Landor who partners with a young Edgar Allan Poe, played by Harry Melling, to solve a murder

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3 w. ago Major Netflix director slams YouTube as viewers' attention spans are 'assaulted'

Generation Z are increasingly watching YouTube and TikTok instead of traditional entertainment and 'have shorter and shorter attention spans' says The Haunting of Hill House director Mike Flanagan

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3 w. ago A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas?

Investment is pouring into companies promising to geoengineer a rapid change in the pH of our waters – but critics are concerned at the speed at which unproven methods are being adoptedIn October 2024, a US company called Ebb Carbon announced the world’s largest marine carbon removal deal to date, signing a multimillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to try to help fix a very real problem in the world’s seas: ocean acidification.Ebb plans to use a method called electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) to mimic the natural process of ocean alkalisation – in other words, it wants to add huge amounts of alkaline materials to ocean waters that scientists now know are acidifying at an alarming rate. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The true story behind A Widow’s Game is even wilder than the Netflix film

A Spanish true-crime drama about the so-called ‘Black Widow of Patraix’ is a firm favourite with Netflix viewers. Katie Rosseinsky looks at the harrowing case behind the streaming hit

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3 w. ago Netflix's Department Q star details hopes for future if season 2 goes ahead

Netflix's Department Q is a hit with viewers, but will the series be renewed for a second season?

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4 w. ago Netflix viewers bugged by 'glaring mistake' in hit show set in Edinburgh

Edinburgh locals have been left annoyed after sitting down to watch Netflix's Department , which was filmed across the capital

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4 w. ago Netflix's Department Q has 'glaring mistake' that's left viewers 'really bugged'

The Netflix series has been a huge hit since it landed on the streaming service at the end of last month. However, it's not all been positive reviews for the show

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