Netflix, BritBox, TVNZ pay their respects to Hulu and RTÉ’s dark comedy Obituary

C21media— Netflix in the UK, BritBox in Australia and TVNZ in New Zealand are among the buyers to have picked up US streamer Hulu and Irish public broadcaster RTÉ's dark comedy coproduction Obituary from producer and distributor APC.

The A.V. Club—Apparently, Netflix’s algorithm passed on A Knight’s Tale sequel. We already knew the entertainment industry has more or less become a technocracy, but hearing about it still feels surreal. Sadly, all the human entertainment execs can do these days is lay down mere mortal ideas on the altar of the almighty algorithm, enslaved to the whims of whatever ones and zeroes say will be successful. That is to say, according to A Knight’s Tale director Brian Helgeland, Netflix shot down his pitch for a sequel because its algorithm said so. “Paul Bettany called me after...

Time—The True Story Behind Netflix’s Unfrosted, Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tarts Movie. The real history of Pop-Tarts that inspired the Jerry Seinfeld Netflix movie Unfrosted.

Time Magazine—Netflix’s Flimsy A Man in Full Makes Tom Wolfe’s Epic Novel Feel Small. Created by David E. Kelley and starring Jeff Daniels, this slight adaptation of Tom Wolfe's era-defining book is permeated by bad choices.