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Netflix, the world's largest streaming service, keeps its viewers engaged and subscribed through its carefully cultivated array of television shows available on the platform. Boasting acquired and original titles like Stranger Things, You, Squid Game, Arcane, and many more, the mega-streamer ensures its audience is always coming back for more. With many new shows coming to the platform throughout 2025, Netflix must remove some long-time staples from their service. Whether the license expires or the show isn't performing to its desired levels, sometimes sacrifices must be made to benefit Netflix and keep it the number one streaming platform.

Unfortunately, audiences can expect to say goodbye to many multi-season TV shows throughout this January. However, viewers must keep in mind that new shows and movies will replace what the platform will lose. A few of the platform's new additions will include American Primeval, Cunk on Life, and The Night Agent, Season 2. Despite the following TV series removals,...

Suspense doesn’t get lost in translation on this Dutch-language series about two detectives who infiltrate the world of a drug lord. Here’s why you should catch up before the series returns for Season 3 on January 10. The thrill of the case Under pressure and facing sky-high stakes, Bob Lemmens and shrewd partner Kim De Rooij (Anna Drijver) can butt heads while immersing themselves in this dangerous landscape—a stark contrast to their depressingly normal home lives. The big bad Drug kingpin Ferry Bouman (Frank Lammers) has become such a fan favorite, he even received his own prequel movie, Ferry, documenting his origin story. The new season will see him looking to take his empire back, and on a collision course with Bob, who has his own serious set of headaches. The shocking deaths Try not to grow too attached to the characters: As Bob goes to extreme lengths to do what the job takes,...

"Undercover" is the Dutch-language crime drama TV series, starring Tom Waes, Anna Drijver and Frank Lammers, inspired by real-life events, following undercover agents who infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation, with Season Two streaming November 8, 2020 on Netflix:

"...in Limburg, a Belgian province bordering the Netherlands, the infiltration is executed by two agents, 'Bob Lemmens' (Waes) and 'Kim de Rooij' (Drijver)...

"...who pose as a couple at the campground..

"...where an 'ecstasy' drug kingpin spends his weekends..."

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"Undercover" is the Dutch-language crime drama TV series, starring Tom Waes, Anna Drijver and Frank Lammers, inspired by real-life events, following undercover agents who infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation, with Season Two streaming September 6, 2020 on Netflix:

"...in Limburg, a Belgian province bordering the Netherlands, the infiltration is executed by two agents, 'Bob Lemmens' (Waes) and 'Kim de Rooij' (Drijver)...

"...who pose as a couple at the campground..

"...where an 'ecstasy' drug kingpin spends his weekends..."

Click the images to enlarge...

A second season of Netflix’s first Benelux original, “Undercover,” is in production, and the story will move from focusing on the illicit drugs trade to the illegal arms business.

Non-English-language drama is finding a global audience on streaming platforms, and “Undercover” has ranked as one of Netflix’s most popular series in that category in the U.K. and fared well in Latin America and elsewhere.

The first run followed the a pair of cops from the Dutch and Belgian police forces going undercover to bust a drug ring manufacturing Ecstasy. Belgian pubcaster Vrt aired it locally and Netflix launched it in the U.S. and rest of the world, with the exceptions of France and Germany.

The second season, like the first, will comprise 10 installments. It is set a year after the events of the first run and will again follow Kim De Rooij, played by Anna Drijver,...

Despite reports to the contrary, Netflix had two titles at Canneseries: Harlan Coben’s closing night drama “Safe,” with “Dexter’s” Michael C. Hall, and Nico Moolenaar’s “Undercover,” a Belgian crime thriller which the streaming giant boarded early in development, taking global rights outside France, Germany and Belgium and announcing “Undercover” last November as its first Belgian-Dutch co-production.

Given Netflix does not have first-window TV rights to either show in France – that privilege on “Undercover” goes to Federation Ent., which also sells second TV window outside German-speaking territories and Belgium – Netflix’s large a<nd early involvement with “Undercover” may have been lost on most market attendees.

In two ways at least, “Undercover” is a sign of the industry times: Its multi-lateral multi window financing; its grounding in a specific reality.

Produced for Flemish pubcaster Vrt by Belgium’s De Mensen, in co-production with Dutch FilmWorks, Good Friends, Gardner and Domm,...

The event launches in Cannes this April.

Canneseries, the international TV festival launching in Cannes this April (7-11), has revealed the ten series in its official competition selection.

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The titles include Killing Eve created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and starring Sandra Oh and Fiona Shaw, and Aquí En La Terra, created by Gael García Bernal with Kyzza Terrazas and Jorge Dorantes.

The titles were selected by Canneseries artistic director Albin Lewi.

The festival was founded by David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes and presided by former French culture minister Fleur Pellerin. It will run alongside Miptv.