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Set your alarm clocks: the newest series of Drive to Survive is arriving March 7.

Just in time for the launch of the 2025 Formula 1 season, Netflix confirmed on Friday that the seventh installment of the documentary-style show — that gets audiences inside the garage and amidst the sport’s biggest stars — will debut in one month.

“New season, fresh rivalries,” Netflix’s X account said in the post.

Since its 2019 debut, Formula 1: Drive to Survive has been met with critical acclaim, many putting the hundreds of thousands of new F1 fans down to the series’ impact. The program follows the 10 teams competing for the Constructor’s Championship, as well as the 20 drivers — Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris included — competing for the driver’s prize.

New season, fresh rivalries. Formula 1: Drive to Survive returns March 7...

It’s that time of year again. While some directors annually share their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh lists everything he consumed, media-wise. For 2024––another year in which he not only premiered a new film, but shot another and is prepping another to begin production shortly––he still got plenty of watching in.

Along with catching up on 2024’s new releases, he took in plenty of classics, including Opening Night, Jaws, Casablanca, All About Eve, The Conversation, Alien, and nine viewings of various Star Wars films. He also got an early look at Andrew Patterson’s The Rivals of Amziah King and after beginning production on Black Bag on May 7, he had a first cut on June 23.

See the list below via his official site.

01/02 Blaming, Elizabeth Taylor

01/04 The Conversation

01/05 Predators, American Greed

01/06 The Curse

01/09 The Curse

01/10 Break Point (3)

01/11 Break Point (3), Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone,...

There's a running joke online about Netflix canceling an amazing new series after just one season, while the streamer-turned-production studio spends millions every couple of years on the latest season of Stranger Things or Big Mouth. While fans once had one or two examples to throw at Netflix when making the argument, we're opening Pandora's Box, as new data has confirmed what we all knew about the monolith of streaming services. TV shows get canceled all the time, mainly due to poor ratings or excessive costs that cannot be maintained in the long-run. But, especially in 2024, Netflix had a habit of canceling some of their best new shows.

According to data from Watch In America, Netflix culled the most original programming of any streamer, or network in general, last year. The study counted new and ongoing shows that Netflix either canceled outright, or renewed for final seasons last year. 16 shows were properly canceled last year,...

Netflix led the pack in cancellations for 2024, ending more shows than any other network or streaming platform. Altogether, Netflix bid farewell to 22 series in 2024, a mix of outright cancellations and planned conclusions, reaffirming its reputation for high turnover in original programming after the outcry over the seemingly abrupt axing of beloved series like Kaos.

According to a new study by Watch In America, the streaming giant cancelled 16 English-language shows outright this year, with an additional six being granted final seasons to conclude their stories. Here's a full list of Netflix shows cancelled in 2024:

Arcane Avatar Blood of Zeus (Renewed for third and final season) Bad Dinosaurs Barbarians Break Point The Brothers Sun Buying Beverly Hills Buying London Dead Boy Detectives Everything Now Girls5eva Kaos My Dad the Bounty Hunter Obliterated Outer Banks (Renewed for fifth and final season) Ratched Scott Pilgrim Takes Off That ’90s Show Unstable The...

Netflix led the pack in cancellations for 2024, ending more shows than any other network or streaming platform. Altogether, Netflix bid farewell to 22 series in 2024, a mix of outright cancellations and planned conclusions, reaffirming its reputation for high turnover in original programming after the outcry over the seemingly abrupt axing of beloved series like Kaos.

According to a new study by Watch In America, the streaming giant cancelled 16 English-language shows outright this year, with an additional six being granted final seasons to conclude their stories. Here's a full list of Netflix shows cancelled in 2024:

Arcane Avatar Blood of Zeus (Renewed for third and final season) Bad Dinosaurs Barbarians Break Point The Brothers Sun Buying Beverly Hills Buying London Dead Boy Detectives Everything Now Girls5eva Kaos My Dad the Bounty Hunter Obliterated Outer Banks (Renewed for fifth and final season) Ratched Scott Pilgrim Takes Off That ’90s Show Unstable The...

Now that 2024 has come to a close, it’s official, Netflix once again handed out the most cancellations in the calendar year – though at this point, I don’t think anyone will find this surprising. While the streaming platform has gotten better as the years have gone by in giving shows final seasons and the chances to establish themselves with audiences, the streaming platform continues to have some of the biggest cancellation rates in the business and 2024 was no different.

In total, Netflix canceled 16 shows in 2024 while also handing six additional shows their walking papers with final season orders which are about as close to cancellations as you can get the only difference being that those lucky six shows will get to actually wrap up their runs with proper sendoffs. So when you combine the two groups, Netflix decided to end a whopping 22 shows in 2024 be it by canceling them directly or ordering final seasons.

You have watched Max's Hard Knocks, surely. If you are a football fan, you want to get all the fix you can on your favorite sport. Max takes us into the inner realms of a certain team, and we get to know the players off the field, and the coaches, too. It makes for sometimes riveting viewing, even if we do not like the team the show is based around. Every season, there is a new team.

But let's leave Max behind because we love Netflix, right? The streamer has also brought us things like Quarterback and Receiver, and while those are great, they are also NFL-based. If your favorite part about football is college football then you should be overjoyed. Netflix is about to give you a gift.

Well, not in time for Christmas, mind you. You will have to wait until the summer of 2025. But you also won't...

Netflix is continuing to serve up tennis docuseries with Rafael Nadal as its latest subject.

A month after revealing his retirement from the sport, Nadal has signed up for a series with the streamer, produced by Skydance Sports.

The untitled series joins Break Point, which ran for two seasons on Netflix before it was canceled, as well as its upcoming Carlos Alcaraz: My Way series.

It comes nine months after Nadal and Alcaraz went head-to-head for The Netflix Slam, a live event exhibition match.

The series will spotlight Nadal’s career as well as his life off-the-court, showcasing never-before-seen material from Nadal’s personal archive and featuring full access with the star, his family and his close circle of coaches and advisors including during his comeback to competitive play in the 2024 season after sitting out much of 2023 due to injury.

Nadal won 22 Grand Slam men’s singles titles, including a...

Netflix is pushing further into the world of football with an upcoming series that will follow the 2024 SEC college football season. The docuseries is set to premiere in the summer of 2025.

Altogether, there will be eight 45-minute episodes in the series. It will focus on ome of college football’s most storied programs in NCAA Southeastern College Football and will give viewers access to coaches and players on and off the field.

“This behind-the-scenes docuseries will bring all the drama and pageantry of Southeastern Conference Football to a worldwide Netflix audience,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement to press. “Football in the SEC will be presented in a way never seen before through the elite storytelling skills of Box To Box, the content studio that has produced numerous award-winning Netflix docuseries. We are excited about this new delivery of content for SEC fans everywhere.”

The currently untitled series...

Whether you’re a die-hard college-football fan or haven’t paid attention to itsince you were in college yourself, an upcoming show will immerse you in the glories of the game. On Dec. 18, Netflix announced production of a season-long series that follows the sport’s most dominant conference, the Southeastern Conference (SEC), during the 2024 season.

Produced by Box To Box Films, the powerhouse production company behind Sprint, Full Swing, Formula 1: Drive to Survive, andBreak Point, the docuseries will bring viewers everywhere from the field and the locker rooms to the team buses, barbershops, and more.

“This behind-the-scenes docuseries will bring all the drama and pageantry of Southeastern Conference Football to a worldwide Netflix audience,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey told Netflix.

Over the course of eight 45-minute episodes, viewers will gain unprecedented access to the players and coaches that make their favorite (and rival) teams forces to be reckoned with.

From Soap Mactavish to Captain Price, the Call of Duty franchise has produced some iconic characters over the years, particularly in the Modern Warfare sub-series. Simon Riley, better known as Ghost, is one of the most adored by fans.

Ghost is one of the most popular characters in Call of Duty. | Credit: Activision.

He was a key figure in the 2022 Modern Warfare 2 single-player campaign, and the British special forces’ mask has come to represent the series. We still can’t forget the scene when he was burnt alive by Capt Shepherd in MW2 (2009). The character’s popularity rose so high, there was serious demand for a Ghost spin-off title.

Two Years Ago, We Got a Slight Glimpse of a Ghost Spin-Off Title in Call of Duty Setting What’s behind that mask? A spin-off title might have revealed that. | Credit: Activision.

According to reports from a well-known leaker in 2022, Infinity Ward...

Netflix once had a monopoly over streaming, but now the market offers plenty of subscription options, pushing the platforms to get more creative at attracting subscribers. In its initiative to add more live TV, Netflix is looking into streaming live versions of the popular YouTube show Hot Ones.

Hosted by Sean Evans, Hot Ones includes interviews with celebrities while eating chicken wings, from spicy to spicier as the questions advance. BuzzFeed Inc. owns the series, and per Bloomberg, Netflix is currently in talks with the company to stream episodes on the streaming platform. Hot Ones will join a lineup that will soon include sporting events like NFL games and WWE wrestling.

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So far, the deal between the two companies isn't official, and they hope to reach an agreement this month.

Spoilers are ahead for Emily in Paris season 4, parts 1 & 2.Like other installments of the hit Netflix romantic comedy-drama, Emily in Paris season 4's soundtrack helps build the show's singular vibe. While Emily Cooper's (Lily Collins) story is full of antics and mishaps, there are also romantic tunes and dance-worthy beats both in English and French. The fourth outing picks up right after Emily in Paris season 3's cliffhanger ending: Emily and Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) wonder about their romantic future, while Camille (Camille Razat), who revealed she's pregnant with Gabriel's child, is missing. Of course, Emily still has some unresolved feelings for Alfie (Lucien Laviscount).

The rest of Emily in Paris' cast of characters are grappling with personal and professional sagas too. Sylvie (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), Emily's no-nonsense boss, outs Louis de Lon as a long-time sexual predator. Julien (Samuel Arnold) jumps ship from Sylvie's agency for a time, while Luc...

While Mindy (Ashley Park) and co. gear up for the Eurovision Song contest in Season 4 of Emily in Paris, they have some time to practice their numbers. Whether it be a French rendition of a popular song, or the English hit itself, they often perform crowd-pleasers.

The soundtrack to Emily in Paris features many French artists that back the hustle and bustle of Emily’s life. Find all the songs featured in Season 4 of Emily in Paris below:

Episode 1: Break Point

“Swan Lake, Op. 20, Spanish Dance” by Tchaichovsky “Chat Dans La Nuit” by Dopamoon (feat. Romain Muller) “Love Is in the Air” by John Paul Young “Encore” by Dopamoon x Napkey “Paris Yeye Girl” by Bea Parks and Jack Lake “Visions” by Tample “Bollide” by Warner Chappell Music Group “Off” by Les Filles and Christopher “Café Bombon” by Sergey Kolosov, Ross Gidney “3 Bikinis” by David C [French Dance Version] “Memories” by...

Concord is getting shut down and has been one of the biggest flops gaming has seen. The game’s servers are set to go offline on September 6, 2024, after barely two weeks of availability. Its lifespan is truly shocking, considering other games that failed lasted longer than this.

The game lasted a total of 11 days. | Image Credit: Firewalk Studios.

Released on August 23, it was supposed to be Sony’s entry into the live service genre to compete with games like Overwatch and Apex Legends. The industry has recently pushed hard into live service games. But the speed of this game’s downfall raises serious questions about the viability of its strategy.

Concord Wasn’t The First To Fall But It Fell The Fastest

Concord was developed by Firewalk Studios and was in development for nearly eight years before its release. Despite the long development cycle, it managed to survive just 11 days on the market,...

Emily is so back!

Emily in Paris season 4 part 1 just hit Netflix on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. It's safe to say that millions of fans have already watched the first five episodes of the fourth season by now. Unfortunately, all those fans are in for a bit of a wait before the second half of the season is released.

Emily in Paris season 4 part 2 will be released on Netflix on Thursday, Sept. 12. Season 4 part 2 will be available to stream at 12:00 a.m. Pt / 3:00 a.m. Et.

That's exactly four weeks after the first half of season 4 premiered on Netflix. It's aligned with Netflix's release strategy for major shows for a little more than a year now. Not every big show is getting split into two parts, but it's happening a lot more often lately. Bridgerton and Cobra Kai were the most recent Netflix shows with split seasons, and it worked...

Beginning on July 24, the Paris Olympics will measure athletic greatness in finite windows of time.

Noah Lyles will run 100 meters in comfortably under 10 seconds. It will take a bit longer — more than 15 minutes — for Katie Ledecky to swim 1,500 meters. French baller Victor Wembanyama will attempt to burnish his growing legend in 40-minute increments.

The NBCU family will, once again, trot out the usual assortment of retired jocks, veteran journalists and Snoop Dogg to offer the reminder that a sport isn’t just the game itself, but all of the storytelling that comes with it. Sports is entertainment, and in 2024, entertainment means television. This won’t surprise any small-screen obsessive; lately, “television” and “sports” have become frequently interchangeable terms.

The primary explanation for that is simple: In a world of delayed viewing, live events are the Holy Grail for everybody. It’s the reason that last year’s list of “most...

Sprint shines a long-awaited spotlight on the world of track and field, showcasing the dedication and personal stories of legendary athletes. With exclusive access, Sprint delves into the emotional and physical demands of sprinting, providing a rare behind-the-scenes look at the athletes' lives. Just in time for the Olympics, Sprint hypes up the sport with a star-studded lineup, including insights from sprinting legends like Usain Bolt.

Staying extremely faithful to its title, Netflix's Sprint is a docuseries about some of the world's fastest and greatest sprinters. Since its release on July 2, 2024, the documentary series has claimed a coveted spot on Netflix's Global Top 10 list, with 2.4 million views at the time of writing. Suffice it to say that Netflix has added yet another title to its successful sport-centered docuseries tally. Sprint focuses on some of the most popular names in athletics and gives viewers a rare behind-the-scenes look into the personal lives of the athletes,...

When it comes to Olympic-caliber track and field, every fraction of every second counts.

“It takes a special talent, both physically and mentally, to succeed in a world where your fate is decided in just 10 seconds,” World Athletics president Sebastian Coe told Netflix last year.

Sprint, the upcoming docuseries by the team behind Drive to Survive, covers every millisecond of the long journey from the 2023 World Championships to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Sprint follows seven athletes in their competitive journey to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, including:

The series is executive produced by Paul Martin, James Gay-Rees, and Warren Smith at Box to Box Films in association with the Olympic Channel. Watch Sprint: The World’s Fastest Humanson Netflix now.

The 2024 Paris Olympics games starts July 26 with the Opening Ceremony on Friday. Find out more information about when Sha’Carri...

A leaked casting call displayed details about a new Ubisoft project named ‘Project Gone’. These details hint at a tactical military game with a storyline around the complexities of war. Moreover, the leak adds to the ongoing theories about the Tom Clancy shooter franchise, particularly Ghost Recon, which some fans feel has strayed from its tactical roots.

With the Tom Clancy shooter franchise facing criticism after the disappointing Ghost Recon Breakpoint, some fans wonder if Project Gone could be the series’ saving grace.

Is Project Gone The Next Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Game? The tactical shooter franchise is over 20 years old. | Credit: Ubisoft

The leaked casting call from Ubisoft dives greatly into characters that will be a part of the upcoming tactical military game.

The squad will apparently consist of several characters, including Raphael, a veteran soldier in his mid-30s to late 40s, joined by Ringo, an Indonesian-American or Asian-American,...

When it comes to the Big Three who have dominated men’s tennis for the past two decades, I’ve always favored Roger Federer over rivals Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. Federer’s game had a multi-surface brilliance and beauty that rarely got obscured by anything extraneous — off-court drama, on-court excesses. You could marvel at the reliable wizardry of a Federer performance and just assume that, in his utterly wholesome boringness, he wouldn’t let you down as a person either.

And that’s the furthest thing from an insult. Roger Federer always presented as a completely decent person and a miraculous tennis player.

So when I call Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia’s Federer: Twelve Final Days, a new documentary premiering at Tribeca ahead of its Amazon airing, comfortably dull, that’s another way of saying that it’s probably precisely the documentary that Federer would have wanted made about himself.

The Sony Pictures sequel “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” made headlines as it rolled through a succession of Florida locations in late February and early March, with reports of crews “spark(ing) buzz” filming on the A1A Highway in Fort Lauderdale, fans catching a glimpse of stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Brickell, and traffic tie-ups in Miami.

“If you look at the trailer, you’ll see anything that has to do with the beach is all us, with the stunt scene that they did on Ocean Drive in Fort Lauderdale,” boasts Sandy Lighterman, film commissioner for Broward County (Film Lauderdale) and president of Film Florida. “That was because we made it so easy for them.”

One of the reasons the presence of the latest “Bad Boys” movie was such big news is that while Florida has a wealth of TV production courtesy of Spanish language networks Telemundo and Univision,...

Universal Pictures Content Group and Passion Pictures have wrapped on a new documentary about the nun who inspired 1995 Oscar-winning hit “Dead Man Walking,” Variety can exclusively confirm.

Titled “Rebel Nun,” the doc follows the story of Catholic nun and leading death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean. Susan Sarandaon won her first and only Oscar playing Prejean in “Dead Man Walking,” which was written and directed by Tim Robbins and co-starred Sean Penn as a convicted murderer.

“Rebel Nun” will explore Sister Helen’s life to date and her ongoing fight against the death penalty.

“Sister Helen Prejean was a humble nun from Louisiana who embarked on a controversial battle that would change the world,” reads the logline. “Now 84 years old, Sister Helen is currently fighting to stop the execution of a Death Row inmate in Oklahoma even lawmakers are convinced is innocent.”

The doc is directed by Dominic Sivyer (“The...

New data from Ampere Analysis demonstrates which sports could make viable acquisition targets for Netflix going forward.

Netflix has kept its messaging on the addition of more sports rights incredibly consistent throughout the years. Company officials have repeatedly denied that Netflix wants to be a sports streaming platform, but its forays into the field seem to bely those denials to a certain degree. Earlier this year, the world’s largest streamer closed a deal to become the host of “WWE Raw” starting in 2025, and recently announced a live boxing card headlined by Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Those deals could set the table for Netflix to go after other sports rights in the future and new data released by Ampere Analysis is helping to quantify which sports might be best for Netflix to pursue going forward, and why.

Ampere finds that the NBA’s international broadcast rights could be the...

Call of Duty is one of the most popular first-person shooter franchises in the current scenario. While many Call of Duty veterans may argue that the franchise is only a shadow of what it was earlier, it is no surprise that the series still attracts tonnes of players.

Ghost Recon is also a top-rated franchise that has been incredibly popular. The series is also one of Ubisoft’s most popular ones ever to come out. While the recent titles were tactical shooters played from a third-person perspective, there are reports that the next title in the series will revert to the first-person perspective, like Activision’s CoD series.

Call of Duty vs Ghost Recon: the battle of the giants? Call of Duty is now only a shadow of what it once was.

There is no doubt that in the current scenario, Activision’s first-person shooter franchise enjoys more mainstream popularity...

It seems like Ubisoft has been inspired by Call of Duty. Several sources have reported on Ubisoft’s new Ghost Recon project, which makes the franchise go back to a first-person shooter perspective while maintaining the tactical elements. According to the sources, it will be set in an invented country with war crimes and conflicts.

Apparently, Ubisoft is looking to get controversial and wants a mission like “No Russian” from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The reports are aiming that this Ghost Recon will have a mission with a baby in the center of it, which will be a hard choice for a soldier.

The Game Will Try Its Own Version of the No Russian Mission From Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon is pointing to be a new Modern Warfare with controversial missions.

One of the oldest Ubisoft franchises is Ghost Recon. This franchise is always...

Following his appearance at The Netflix Slam, Carlos Alcaraz is expanding his relationship with the streamer.

Alcaraz, who bested Rafael Nadal in the live tennis tournament that aired earlier this month, is the subject of an eponymous docuseries about the 2024 tennis season.

It comes after the Spaniard, who just reached the quarter finals of Indian Wells, created buzz that he was involved further with Netflix after writing Tudum – Netflix’s catchphrase – on a camera after his victory against Fábián Marozsán in the round of 16 at the BNP Paribas Open.

The docuseries comes after it emerged that Netflix had canceled its last tennis docuseries, Break Point, after two seasons.

Filming for Alcaraz started during The Netflix Slam and the series will look at his career on and off the court over the 2024 season.

It will be produced by Spanish production company Morena Films, which is behind Netflix’s upcoming soccer docuseries La Liga.

Ubisoft dearly wants to send the next Ghost Recon game to a path of success, at least that is what a recent leaks suggest. The latest game in the series wasn’t a disaster but it wasn’t a critical success either. Breakpoint was released in 2019 which failed to meet the company’s sales expectations, making it a commercial disappointment.

Though Jon Bernthal was hired to make the game more lively as the team felt a need to include a charismatic villain, the game failed despite the addition of the Fury actor. The story picks up the narrative following the events of Future Soldier and Nomad returns as the lead character from the previous game.

The Next Ghost Recon Is Returning To Its Roots

Ghost Recon: Wildlands is among the best games in the series.

We are still in a fog regarding the narrative but the game is said to...

While Drive to Survive has sped to a successful six seasons on the Netflix platform and been given credit for a surge in interest in motor racing, particular in the US, the same production team has stumbled to a halt with the tennis world, and now The Times of London reports that documentary series Break Point has been cancelled after just two seasons, citing poor ratings and lack of access to the sport’s leading figures.

Everything looked hopeful when the series was first announced by Netflix in January 2022, hot on the heels of the ratings blockbuster Drive to Survive. Nick Kyrgios and Coco Gauff were two of the stars featured in the first season of Break Point, and tennis governing bodies united to help bring the sport to screen. In March 2023, the series was renewed for a second season that was released in January 2024.

However, The Times reports that producers,...

As the world’s largest streamer prepares to host a boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, its live sports strategy is becoming clear.

The rumors are true! Netflix is gearing up to offer its next live sporting event: a boxing match between YouTube star Jake Paul and former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. The fight is coming to Netflix on July 20, and it’s just the latest example of the streamer’s emerging strategy of using live sports events to promote its on-demand content.

All of Netflix’s live sports offerings thus far have been related to an on-demand title on the streamer in some way. The streamer has been connected to Formula 1 racing in the past, and has also reportedly shown interest in acquiring its own sports league. Paramount CEO Bob Bakish recently estimated that 90% of the people who come to his streamer to watch sports spend most...

From “Scandoval” to soccer ball. Reality TV uber producer Alex Baskin and his 32 Flavors shingle have partnered with tech mogul Alexis Ohanian, soccer star Midge Purce and sports doc producers Box to Box Films to produce the sports docuseries “The Offseason.”

National Women’s Soccer League player Purce, who is also a U.S. Women’s National Team forward, created “The Offseason” and will be featured in the series. Purce, a forward for the NJ/NY Gotham Fc in the Nwsl is partnered in the endeavor with Ohanian, who is the lead investor of the Nwsl’s Angel City Fc team.

“It was a radical idea in 2019 for me to start an Nwsl club in LA, and in 2023, everyone in Hollywood told me it was a radical idea to incubate a production company and unscripted show like ‘The Offseason,’ which makes me think we’re already on the right track,...

Box to Box Films, the production company behind Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive, has received a minority investment from Bruin Capital, an investment company focused on global sports, media and technology.

Financial and other details weren’t disclosed, but Box to Box said on Tuesday that the capital injection amounted to a “significant” minority investment.

Founded in 2016 by Academy Award-winning producer James Gay-Rees and Emmy-winning producer Paul Martin, Box to Box has also been behind such sports productions as Formula 1 documentary Senna, soccer doc Diego Maradona and Netflix’s tennis series Break Point, as well as Amy Winehouse doc Amy, among others.

“With this fresh Bruin investment, the company will expand into self-financed projects as well as new verticals (i.e., digital, branded and scripted) while also exploring strategic M&a,” Box to Box said.

It will continue to be led by Gay-Rees, Martin and managing director Samantha Lawrence,...

Box to Box Films, the production company behind Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive To Survive, has secured a multi-million dollar investment.

Deadline understands that private equity investor Bruin Capital has invested in the company. It’s not clear what stake Bruin has taken, but it’s believed to be a minority investment.

Box to Box, which is also behind series such as Netflix tennis series Break Point, golf series Full Swing and a new Apple TV+ show about Major League Soccer, is the latest documentary company, with an interest in sports, to score investment.

Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions sold a stake to Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company and Boardwalk Pictures, which is behind Netflix’s NBA series The Long Game and Cheer, sold a stake to investment firm Shamrock Capital.

Box to Box was founded by Amy and Senna producer James Gay-Rees and Paul Martin, who produced HBO’s Maradona.

The tennis season begins fresh with the new year and also brings a new season of the Netflix sports docu-series Break Point. After its debut in 2023, the series was renewed for a second season with more stories and players to follow. This latest installment brings other tennis stars to the forefront who thrived or even experienced some troubles during the 2023 Atp and Wta seasons. Continue reading the guide below to learn about the talented players and their tennis journeys in Break Point Season 2.

Picture: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is now available to stream on Netflix UK.

It’s been an exciting week of excellent new movies and TV shows landing on Netflix UK. This past week has seen the arrival of the Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune.

First of all, here are the past week’s highlights:

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)

Director: Jeff Fowler

Genre: Comedy | Runtime: 124 Minutes

Cast: James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, Idris Elba, Tika Sumpter

After being bullied by the internet into changing the design of Sonic back to his classic look, Paramount Pictures earned plenty of goodwill with millions of Sonic fans worldwide. Spawning a sequel, the second film sees the arrival of fan-favorite characters such as Tails and Knuckles.

Upon returning to Earth, Dr. Robotnik has found a new...

Last year, Netflix's tennis documentary Break Point offered both fun and frustration to fans who were eager to see the sport's young talent introduced to a broader audience. Following closely along with players like Ons Jabeur, Frances Tiafoe, and Iga Swiatek as they ascended to the upper echelons of pro tennis was illuminating, but the year-long lag between filming and airing held the show back from being a true and vital companion to the ongoing tennis season.

Pictured: This Is Us (20th Television), Lift (Netflix), After Everything (Voltage Pictures)

A new week of Netflix releases awaits, with much to look forward to. Here’s a breakdown of all the new movies and series, featuring all the titles set to arrive over the next seven days.

For what else is set to arrive throughout the remainder of January 2024, check out our guide. We updated it today with even more titles set to arrive, including the SVOD premiere of the Paul Dano and Seth Rogen movie Dumb Money. Want to look even further ahead? Check out our preliminary list of what’s coming in February 2024.

On the removals front this week, the Israeli series When Heroes Fly departs over the next week, and we highly recommend watching it before it’s gone forever. Elsewhere, the sci-fi movie The Colony (also known as Tides) leaves on Friday, and all the...

Austin Butler in Apple TV+’s ‘Masters of the Air’

The 2023-2024 primetime television season looked nothing like previous years, with reruns, unscripted shows, and international imports populating broadcast networks’ lineups. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, though undeniably justified, took quite a toll on all the networks. Fortunately, the strikes have been settled, production has begun on nearly every new and returning series, and the midseason January lineup hints that things are slowly returning to normal.

Here’s a look at the shows scheduled to launch their new season – or series – premieres in January 2024. NBC’s Chicago shows – Chicago Fire, Med, and P.D. – will kick off new seasons on January 17th, with the Law & Order franchises returning on January 18th. New highly anticipated series debuting in January include Echo, Expats, Masters of the Air, The Brothers Sun, and Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale.

January 2024 Premiere Dates

January 1

90 Day: The Single Life...

Picture credits: Sony Picture / Netflix

Before long, we’ll be welcoming a new year on Netflix UK. Subscribers can be excited about what’s coming as January 2024 is already shaping up to be a great month of new arrivals, and we’ll be keeping track of everything coming to the streaming service throughout the month.

Throughout the month, you can find our weekly recaps of everything new on the library in our Netflix UK hub.

As we enter the New Year we’ll continue to keep track of all of the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix UK.

Full List of What’s Coming to Netflix United Kingdom in January 2024

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What’s Coming to Netflix UK January 1st Bitconned (2024) Netflix Original Film – Crime...

Netflix is adding another live sports event to its calendar: the Netflix Slam, featuring Spain’s Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz in a special one-night tennis exhibition match.

The event is scheduled for Sunday, March 3, 2024, at noon Pt at the Michelob Ultra Arena at MGM Resorts International’s Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. It will stream as a duaI broadcast in English- and Spanish-language markets. Netflix said additional players and matchups will be announced at a later date.

Netflix recently bowed its first live sports event, the Netflix Cup, a golf tournament that will pit race-car drivers from its popular Formula 1 documentary series “Drive to Survive” against golfers from a similar series called “Full Swing.” It’s other non-live sports programming has included “Break Point,” “Untold,” “Quarterback,” “Tour de France: Unchained,” “Under Pressure: The U.S. Women’s World Cup Team,” and upcoming series following athletes in track and field,...

Netflix is serving up more live sports.

The streaming giant on Monday announced a live exhibition tennis match between two of the sport’s biggest stars: 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal facing off against world No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz.

The match is being branded as The Netflix Slam, and will be held on March 3, 2024, at the Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

The event will feature other tennis matchups as well, with players Tbd. It will stream in both English and Spanish for global markets. Both Nadal and Alcaraz are from Spain.

The Netflix Slam is the second in-house live sporting event for Netflix following The Netflix Cup last month. The Netflix Cup was a live golf exhibition match, with PGA tour pros featured in the Netflix docuseries Full Swing pairing up with Formula 1 drivers featured in Drive to Survive.

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Fashion influencer Morgan Riddle has signed with UTA, the entertainment and sports talent agency, in all areas.

UTA will help expand brand partnerships and other business opportunities in unscripted content beyond social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, where Riddle’s fashion, beauty and travel content is widely available.

Riddle built a presence around the pro tennis tour as the partner of top-rated American player Taylor Fritz, including with her courtside fashion presence at international tournaments. Riddle also appeared alongside Fritz on Break Point, the Netflix docuseries where the producers of Formula 1: Drive to Survive turned their attentions to the 2022 professional tennis season.

The series had a focus on up-and-coming stars, including Fritz as he represented American pro tennis contenders just as the Big Three — Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic — look to stay on top.

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Netflix won’t be live-streaming any Formula 1 races, pro tennis tournaments or PGA Tour events anytime soon. But the company does plan to continue leaning into the niche it has carved out with sports-related documentaries like Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Break Point and Full Swing.

“We are in the sports business, but we’re in the part that we bring the most value to, which is the drama of sport,” Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos said Wednesday during the company’s third-quarter earnings chat. Citing the shows above as well as Quarterback and the recently released Beckham — which has been the top English-language series on the streamer the past two weeks — Sarandos added, “We’re having a big impact on sports through the thing we’re most great at, which is the drama.”

The question came up because a day earlier, Netflix announced its first live sports event: a nine-hole golf match,...

Live sports are at the center of the next wave of streaming evolution as live TV streaming services rely on them to attract and retain subscribers and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platforms — like Max, Paramount+, and Peacock — are beefing up their exclusive sports content to round out their offerings. While Netflix has thus far avoided wading too deeply into the exorbitantly priced bidding wars for live sports, the world’s largest streamer will officially enter the world of live sports streaming in its own unique Netflix way.

Netflix will broadcast its first live sporting event — the Netflix Cup — in November. The special will feature stars from its Formula 1 and PGA Tour docuseries competing in a golf tournament. The streamer held its first live event — a Chris Rock stand-up special — in March 2023. Sign Up $6.99+ / month netflix.com

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Stars of two Netflix sports series will face off in The Netflix Cup, the streamer’s first live sports event, at a match play tournament next month at the Wynn Golf Club in Las Vegas.

Drivers and golfers from Formula 1: Drive to Survive and Full Swing will compete on the 18-hole, championship golf course to kick off the week of the inaugural Formula 1 Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix. The Netflix Cup will stream live on Netflix at 3 p.m. Pt Tuesday, November 14.

The roster includes Formula 1 drivers Alex Albon (Williams Racing); Pierre Gasly (Bwt Alpine F1 Team); Lando Norris (McLaren Racing); and Carlos Sainz (Scuderia Ferrari), and PGA Tour golfers Rickie Fowler, Max Homa, Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas. Four pairs consisting of one driver and one golfer will play an eight-hole match with the top two teams advancing to the final hole and a chance at the Netflix Cup title.

Box to Box, the production company behind Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive To Survive, has cornered the sports docuseries market with its breakout docuseries and similar projects in the world of golf, tennis, cycling and rugby.

The company, founded by Amy and Senna producer James Gay-Rees and Paul Martin, who produced HBO’s Maradona, has also made a number of music documentaries including Apple’s 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything.

But it has also been dabbling in new areas including corporate true-crime series with Apple’s Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn and is looking at other weird and wonderful stories for its documentary slate as well as a new push into scripted and a potential investment drive.

“We looked at sport as an area, particularly in the premium space, that felt underserved,” Martin told Deadline. “You had ESPN, which did 30 for 30 and HBO doing Hard Knocks once a year.

Netflix is speeding into its latest sports docuseries.

The streamer has ordered a series that tracks the upcoming NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs and championship race this fall.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who has won 26 races in the Cup Series and is the son of legendary motorsports driver Dale Earnhardt, is exec producing the untitled project.

The five-part series has already starting filming as the drivers battle it out to secure their spot in the NASCAR Playoffs, which begin Sept. 3 at Darlington Raceway.

It will feature exclusive access to drivers and teams both on the track and at home.

The series will premiere in early 2024.

Words + Pictures, the company launched by former ESPN exec Connor Schell that is backed by Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company, is producing alongside NASCAR Studios.

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The life of late, great Dutch soccer star Johan Cruyff is the subject of a doc from Drive to Survive producer Box to Box Films and Dutch firm Lusus.

The currently unnamed doc is the first to be made about the former Ajax and Barcelona legend in collaboration with the Cruyff family.

Production begins later this year ahead of an intended Q3 or Q4 2025 launch. No network is yet attached but Box to Box and Lusus said they are “in talks with a number of interested broadcast platforms.”

The film will “shine a true light on the complex and charismatic life and career of a man that has been hailed as one of the most influential figures of the modern game and one of International football’s greatest players of all time.”

It will feature interviews with those close to Cruyff, who led the Dutch national team to the final of the 1978 World Cup,...

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Newly released Netflix docuseries “Quarterback” takes viewers on an inside look at the lives of some of the league’s most-watched players’ off the gridiron. It’s the latest example of what co-ceo Ted Sarandos called “sports-adjacent” programming on Wednesday’s earnings call, and this one scored big.

Initial viewership of the series proved that football still reigns as an American favorite, and Netflix might not need to pay up for expensive broadcasting rights to profit from the national obsession. A total of 1.1 million households tuned into the premiere episode of the series in its first five days released, according to the latest Wrap Report for the week of July 10-16.

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America’s Team and the world’s largest streaming service seem like a match made in heaven. Now they’re a match made on Earth as well, as Puck News reports Netflix has won the bidding for rights to a new docuseries featuring the Dallas Cowboys and their billionaire owner and general manager Jerry Jones.

Netflix had to beat out sports giant ESPN to secure the rights, and will pay $50 million to stream the series. It will feature never-before-seen footage, as well as interviews from Cowboys legends like Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irvin. Those who have screened the series already have given it favorable comparisons to “The Last Dance,” the docuseries featuring Michael Jordan’s run with the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls.

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It’s hard not to see a pattern forming at Netflix when it comes to sports content. The company has never streamed a live sporting event before,...