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Exclusive: House of the Dragon and Supergirl actor Milly Alcock will star in Daina Oniunas-Pusić’s dark comedy Thumb.

The project, which was written by Cesar Vitale, winner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, follows a lonely woman (Alcock) who mistakenly receives a severed thumb in the mail. She makes it her life’s obsession to return it to the hand it once belonged to, putting her on a collision course that will upend her world forever.

Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman and Greg Lessans will produce for Weed Road, and Richard Saperstein, Brooke Saperstein, Beau Turpin and Annie Saperstein will produce for Bluestone Entertainment. Cameras roll this fall in New York.

Goldsman said, “Cesar Vitale is a unique and exciting new voice on the page, Daina Oniunas-Pusić is an impossibly talented artist behind the camera and none of us can stop watching the extraordinary Milly Alcock.

Welcome to My Favorite Scene! In this series, IndieWire speaks to actors behind a few of our favorite television performances about their personal-best onscreen moment and how it came together.

Flowers are still a wonderful way to say, “Congrats on your recent awards recognition!” But you’d think someone would have sent two-time Emmy nominee Meghann Fahy — the magnetic star of Netflix’s delicious “Sirens,” from showrunner and playwright Molly Smith Metzler — an Edible Arrangement by now. After all, she had one as a scene partner in one of her signature sequences for the Netflix series.

“I actually haven’t gotten one of those yet, which is fine by me, because, girl, I dragged that thing around for what felt like weeks,” the actress recently told IndieWire. “It was very heavy. I would guess like 33 pounds, maybe? Give or take. It’s a real unit.“

Nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress...

Netflix’s head of U.S. and Canadian scripted TV content Peter Friedlander has decided to exit his post after nearly 14 years with the streaming service. Jinny Howe, currently head of drama series under Friedlander, has been promoted as his replacement.

Howe will report directly to Netflix TV chief Bela Bajaria. Promoted to head of Uscan drama last year, Howe joined Netflix in 2018 to oversee the development and production of serialized dramatic content and has worked across hit series including “Bridgerton,” “Maid,” “Beef,” “Inventing Anna,” “The Night Agent,” “The Diplomat,” “Sirens” and “Untamed.”

Friedlander joined Netflix in October 2011 as the first employee on the streamer’s original series team. He oversaw creative on early Netflix hit series, including “House of Cards,” “Black Mirror,” “Mindhunter,” “Marvel’s Daredevil” and “The Queen’s Gambit.” At the time of his exit, Friedlander was overseeing top TV IP including “Stranger Things,” “Wednesday,” “Emily in Paris,” “Monster,...

Netflix has named Jinny Howe as its newest head of Ucan scripted series amid the departure of longtime exec Peter Friedlander.

Howe, who most recently worked under Friedlander as the streamer’s head of drama series for Ucan, will succeed Friedlander as he exits Netflix after 14 years.

After first joining Netflix in 2011 as the first dedicated employee on the Netflix original series team, Friedlander has served as one of the streamer’s longest running creative executives, overseeing Netflix’s most well-known titles like “House of Cards,” “Black Mirror,” “Mindhunter,” “Marvel’s Daredevil,” “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Narcos” and “Love, Death and Robots,” among others.

“I want to thank Peter for his...

Exclusive: There is a big change in the top TV ranks of Netflix. Jinny Howe has been named Head of Ucan (U.S.-Canada) Scripted Series. Reporting to Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, she will succeed in the role Peter Friedlander, who will be leaving the streamer after almost 14 years.

Howe has been a rising star since joining Netflix in 2018, with this marking her fourth promotion in four years. She was most recently Head of Drama Series for Ucan under Friedlander, overseeing all of the streamer’s drama areas: development and current series as well as shows coming out of Netflix’s roster of overall deals.

“Jinny brings an incredible energy and warmth to everything she does, and her creative instincts and deep industry relationships make her an inspiring leader for our scripted series team in the US and Canada,” Bajaria said. “She has a knack for championing bold, distinctive...

Warning: Contains spoilers about The Good Place and the first three seasons of Upload.

Maybe it’s the purgatorial nature of the average email job, but working on The Office seems to inspire its writers not only to contemplate eternity, but to conceptualize it in administrative terms. Michael Schur, a producer on the American version of The Office, created NBC’s The Good Place, set in a supposed heaven that turns out to be the exact opposite. The architects who construct the spaces where the dead spend their afterlife are routinely shown in offices and grappling with middle managers. Greg Daniels, the executive producer who adapted The Office for NBC,...

Meghann Fahy may have been beloved by fans of The Bold Type for her role of Sutton Brady, but it wasn’t until her turn as Daphne in The White Lotus’ second season that the world really sat up and took notice. Fahy’s expert balancing of sweet and canny, world-weary and naïve in the role earned her an Emmy nomination in Supporting Actress and a massive following.

Earlier this year, she starred in the hit thriller Drop opposite Brandon Sklenar, before appearing in Netflix’s limited series Sirens, which earned her another Emmy nomination — this time in Lead Actress.

In Sirens, Fahy stars as Devon, a woman doing battle with poverty, disappointment, a dependent father and her estranged sister. At her wit’s end when her father is diagnosed with dementia, Devon goes in search of her sister Simone (Milly Alcock), only to find her ensconced in a bizarre...

Pedro Almodóvar recently teamed up with Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke for the dusty romantic Western, Strange Way of Life, but years before he ever worked with the Marvel stars on the film, he directed an erotic thriller that just got an important streaming update. 2011 brought on the release of The Skin I Live In for Almodóvar, the psychological thriller following a plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, who uses a woman as a guinea pig to create a new type of synthetic skin that can withstand any damage. The Skin I Live In is not currently streaming anywhere in the United States, but the film is now available to...

"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" star Glenn Howerton has become best known for playing the cynical, megalomaniacal bar co-owner Dennis Reynolds on the long-running FX comedy series, but his acting background is actually a bit more dramatic. Before he was screaming about being a five-star man or going on some of television's most unhinged tirades, Howerton attended the prestigious Juilliard School for the performing arts, and in 2014, we really got to see him show off his dramatic chops in a big project for the first time. After more than a decade in comedic roles on TV and playing bit parts in films like "Crank" and its sequel and "The Strangers" remake, Howerton took on the role of a personal trainer who got in over his head in the first season of FX's "Fargo." 

The "Fargo" television series, created by Noah Hawley, continued the events of the famous Coen brothers film,...

A woman is forced to take extreme measures to save her family home in an initially stressful yet ultimately meandering Netflix drama

There’s been a recent overkill of stories told about the super-rich, glossy films and shows set in ostentatious houses filled with characters as superficially on trend as they are painfully out of touch. It felt like needed escapism as we crawled out of the very worst of the pandemic, with The White Lotus, Triangle of Sadness, The Menu and Glass Onion all hitting a sweet spot, but it’s grown rather tiring, as Sirens, The Better Sister and Your Friends and Neighbors have felt less eat the rich and more what if we just admired their kitchens instead.

It’s become especially uninteresting as the gap between the uber-wealthy and the rest of us has widened, food prices up and empathy down. That particular anger pulses through Night Always Comes,...

Meghann Fahy was just as surprised as fans when she was nominated for an Emmy in the best actress in a limited or anthology series or movie category for her role in Netflix’s Sirens.

During her appearance on Wednesday’s episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers, Fahy said she was “100 percent” surprised that she was nominated for her work on the show. “When I tell you that there was not even one conversation about it across the board with anybody on my team,” she told host Seth Meyers. “My team was like, ‘Oh my God!'”

Despite being pleasantly surprised by the nomination, Fahy didn’t have time to immediately celebrate. “I was on set, actually, and so we were filming something and so [my team] called and I was like, ‘This is weird that they’re calling.’ And I answered, and they started screaming. And they were like, ‘And action!

We’ve been talking a lot about groundbreaking Emmy nominations this year, like Kathy Bates as the oldest-ever drama actress nominee for “Matlock.” But here’s another one for the record books that’s been decades in the making: Five of the six nominees in the directing for a limited or anthology series or movie category are women — Shannon Murphy (“Dying for Sex”), Helen Shaver (“The Penguin”), Jennifer Getzinger (“The Penguin”), Nicole Kassell (“Sirens”) and Lesli Linka Glatter (“Zero Day”).

“I look at all of the directing nominees in my category, and they’re more than 90% women, which, in terms of change in the world, is extraordinary,” Glatter says. “And the work couldn’t be more different. … This is what the world is starting to look like, so that we are now feeling more represented and our stories are being told. And this is positive for storytelling on every level.

Netflix’s Sirens broke some stereotypes with Meghann Fahy’s Devon DeWitt, and fans are eager to see how she navigates the next chapter of her life. Created by Molly Smith Metzler, based on her play Elemeno Pea, the dark comedy show was made as a limited series. However, Metzler has not completely turned down the possibility of a second season.

In an interview with Glamour, Metzler expressed her interest in exploring Sirens for a second season. She said:

“I wrote the play 15 years ago. I’ve been thinking about them this whole time. I could write them until the day I die. I’d never say never, but could I do them justice in another season? I’d have to think about it. The fact that so many people are asking is really encouraging.”

Even co-leads, Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock, are eager to reprise their roles as the DeWitt sisters,...

Here's one of those bits of midweek TV news that gets more intriguing as it goes on. Riding the buzz from her return as Anna Coleman in Freakier Friday, a resurgent Lindsay Lohan is set to star alongside Shailene Woodley in a Hulu/Disney+ limited series from Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, former showrunners on This Is Us. Per Deadline's reporting, Lohan and Woodley have signed on to star in and executive produce Count My Lies, an adaptation of Sophie Stava's Good Morning America book club backed debut novel.

By the sounds of it, Count My Lies looks primed to join the likes of Netflix's Sirens, The Perfect Couple, and Apple TV+'s Palm Royale in the ever-growing ranks of thrillers about common folk getting tangled up in the messy lives of the rich and powerful. The logline for the series, shared by Deadline, reads as follows: "In Count My Lies,...

Upload fans, the end is officially in sight, as today, Prime Video has dropped the trailer for the title’s fourth and final season. On August 25, audiences can tune in to binge all four episodes of the special finale event that will serve as a book-end for the latest project to come from Greg Daniels (The Office). This time around, it looks like the residents of Lakeview will be facing similar problems to those in the real world after AI takes control. Meanwhile, after last season’s cliffhanger, viewers will find out what happened to Robbie Amell’s Nathan, with his fate directly tying into the fate of everyone he loves.

The opening sequence of the trailer reveals that audiences will pick up shortly following that Season 3 cliffhanger. A surprise visit from Nathan leaves Nora (Andy Allo) in a state of desperate shock after he asks her to find him.

It’s hard to describe Netflix’s limited series “Sirens” as a specific genre, which is exactly what attracted series star Meghann Fahy to the project. She plays Devon DeWitt, a woman hovering around the age of 30 and channeling the frustration of her derailed life into “saving” her sister, Simone (Milly Alcock), from the clutches of Simone’s micromanaging heiress boss. Untangling Simone from Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore) requires a weekend of sleuthing around the Kell beachfront estate, bringing both DeWitt and Kell family secrets to light in the process.

Simone manages to evade her sister’s attempts to drag her home to Buffalo to care for their neglectful, aging father for most of the premiere. However, the sisters lay their cards on the table in an emotionally fraught scene early in episode 2 after Devon sneaks back onto the Kell estate to forcibly remove her sister from the house.

“It...

The Set Decorators Society of America has unveiled the winners for its 2024-25 Sdsa TV Awards. Taking home the top honors were “Severance” and “The Last of Us.”

The Sdsa honors the top achievements in small-screen decor/design from June 1, 2024-May 31, 2025.

Other winners include “The Studio,” “1923” and “Saturday Night Live.”

Full list of winners below.

Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a One Hour Contemporary Series

Winner – “Severance” S2, Set Decoration by David Schlesinger Sdsa with Production Design by Jeremy Hindle

“Black Mirror,” Set Decoration by Ellie Shanks, Liz Ainley, Hannah Spice, Polly Davenport & Kate Marshall Sdsa with Production Design by Miranda Jones, Cristina Casali, Helen Scott, Robin Brown & Jennifer Morden

“Poker Face” S2, Set Decoration by Cathy T. Marshall Sdsa & Heather Loeffler with Production Design by Judy Rhee

“The White Lotus” S3, Set Decoration by Letizia Santucci Sdsa with Production Design by Cristina Onori

“Your Friends & Neighbors...

Exclusive: ABC’s Will Trent has promoted Kevin Daniels to series regular for Season 4, set to premiere in 2026. Production is slated to begin in August.

For three seasons, viewers have gotten to know Atlanta police Detective Franklin Wilks (Daniels) as Angie’s (Erika Christensen) AA sponsor and a steady presence in the always-busy police bullpen. Now, Will Trent fans will get to know Franklin further as he takes on a more active role in their cases and stories.

Based on Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling “Will Trent” book series, Special Agent Will Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was abandoned at birth. He endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system, alongside his on-and-off again love interest, Angie. Now, Will uses his unique point of view in the pursuit of justice and has the highest clearance rate in the Gbi.

In addition to Rodríguez,...

A pair of DC actresses are among the genre folks getting a big push from Variety on a list of the up-and-coming stars!

Every year, Variety, one of the leading publications in Hollywood, compiles a list for their "Power of Young Hollywood Impact Report." This looks at entertainers between the ages of 18-22 who are making an impact, not just in their projects but also across social media and pop culture as a whole.

This year’s list includes many faces familiar to sci-fi and fantasy fans, proving how these stars are on the rise beyond the genre.

Milly Alcock Netflix's "Sirens" World Premiere | Dia Dipasupil/GettyImages

Starting off on the list is Milly Alcock, who made her big break starring as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon. Alcock then cameoed in Superman as Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl, a role she’ll take in her own solo...

The town of Blairstown, New Jersey was used as the stand-in for the fictional town of Crystal Lake during the filming of director Sean S. Cunningham’s 1980 classic Friday the 13th – and now, the cast and crew of the Peacock TV series Crystal Lake are filming in the same town, making this the first Friday the 13th project to use Blairstown as Crystal Lake since the original movie! Pictures from the set can be seen below.

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace,...

Kelly O’Sullivan and Lois Smith will co-star in “The Steel Harp.” The comedy is directed by O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, the filmmakers behind “Ghostlight.”

It marks one of the first leading movie roles for Smith, a 94-year-old character actress who won a Tony Award for “The Inheritance” in 2021. In addition to starring in the film, O’Sullivan wrote the script. Cherry Jones and Reed Birney co-star in the movie, which recently wrapped production in San Francisco.

Smith plays Hanna, a cantankerous nonagenarian, who patrols the Golden Gate Bridge every day and intervenes when people get too close to the edge. On what was to be Hanna’s last day as a “bridge watcher,” she stops Amy (O’Sullivan), a younger woman as stubborn as Hanna herself, from jumping. As the holiday season sets in, Amy and Hanna challenge each others’ resolve and form a bond.

“The Steel Harp” is...

Netflix’s new erotic thriller, The Hunting Wives, is making waves on the platform’s global TV charts and currently sits at #3, just two weeks after release. The eight-episode series is adapted from May Cobb’s best-selling novelof the same name. The series follows the story of a young woman, Sophie (Brittany Snow), who finds herself drawn into the secretive, scandal-ridden world of an affluent Texas social circle. Things, however, spiral out of control when the body of a young girl, Abby (Madison Wolfe), is found, and Sophie becomes a prime suspect in her murder.

The show is appearing to be a big hit with the audience right after its release, likely due to its nice synergy of soap-opera vibes, murder mystery, and a sneak peek into the lives of suburban elites. Critics have pointed out the over-the-top tone of the show, but that's exactly why theaudience loves it. The...

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Steve Pink alters his trajectory again, eagerly seeking to challenge himself. From 2021’s romantic drama The Wheel, about a couple retreating to the mountains to repair their relationship, the director pivoted to the political drama, The Last Republican, in which he and Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger sought to explore the events of the January 6 Capitol riot. His new film, Terrestrial, abruptly takes Pink into the realm of a psychological thriller with a sci-fi slant.

Pink his perhaps best known for co-writing the black comedy Grosse Pointe Blank and the adaptation of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, as well as directing Hot Tub Time Machine and its sequel. He has also directed episodes of the comedy series New Girl, Sirens, Rhett and Link’s Buddy System, Wayne, and The Karate Kid spin-off, Cobra Kai. Pink’s directorial credits show there’s no shortage of nuance to his narrative range.

The Josh Hartnett renaissance continues in full swing following the actor's high-profile roles in the recent hit movies Oppenheimer, Trap, and Fight or Flight. Next up on the Hartnett comeback is perhaps a pair of the most exciting projects for the actor yet. Not only with he star in the Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity next year alongside Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, but he's the next A-lister headlining an upcoming Netflix original limited series.

Earlier this spring, Hartnett landed the leading role in the still untitled mystery thriller limited series that's set in Newfoundland. In addition to Hartnett, the series also stars Mackenzie Davis and Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton. But now that the show has received the announcement we have been waiting for from Netflix, there are also some more familiar faces joining the cast. That's right, the cast has grown now that cameras have officially started rolling!

Netflix announced on Aug.

Milly Alcock's dark comedy limited series Sirens has made a return to the Netflix Top 10 charts, two months after its release. Created by Molly Smith Metzler, and based on her 2011 play Elemeno Pea, Sirens follows Devon (Meghann Fahy) who grows concerned about her younger sister's (Alcock) relationship with her mysterious billionaire employer while working at a luxurious beach estate.

The show premiered on Netflix in May 2022, and has a 'fresh' Rotten Tomatoes rating of 77%. Sirens was acclaimed for its pulpy and dramatic exploration of class and family, its star-studded cast, and its strong balance of drama and comedy. A few months after its release, the show has enjoyed a resurgence of streaming popularity.

Per Netflix Tudum, Sirens has climbed back into the Netflix Top 10 Global English language TV shows, sitting at No. 8 for the week, with 1.8 million views. The show has charted above Building the Band at No. 9, and 7 Bears at No.

If you can believe it, we're already well past halfway through 2025. We have already binge-watched a number of new hit Netflix shows like Adolescence, Ransom Canyon, and Untamed and obsessed over the last seasons of the streamer's biggest fan-favorites like The Night Agent, Ginny & Georgia, Sweet Magnolias, and of course we can't forget the final season of Squid Game.

Before the ball could even drop and welcome us to 2025, Netflix already got started with revealing a handful of release dates to get fans excited. The Night Agent season 2 helped get the year started on an action-packed note in January, as will the second season of teen rom-com series Xo, Kitty and Harlan Coben's latest mystery limited series Missing You.

The start of the year also brought some long anticipated titles like Mark L. Smith's Western miniseries American Primeval, Robert De Niro's debut television role in limited series Zero Day,...

Angie Han Once upon a time, when broadcast ruled the roost, summer was a fallow time for TV. The traditional season would end in the spring, to start up again in the fall; it wasn’t that there were no new shows, but they’d be exceptions in a sea of reruns. Of course, that’s all changed in the past couple of decades, with cable and streaming moving the industry to year-round programming. Now there’s always something fresh to watch, whether it’s sweater or flip-flop weather.

Or … is there?

Technically, yes, we still got hundreds of hours of new TV the past few months: starry launches like Apple TV+’s Murderbot and Netflix’s Sirens and Too Much; new seasons of recent hits like Netflix’s Squid Game, Peacock’s Poker Face and FX/Hulu’s The Bear; revivals of older smashes like Showtime’s Dexter (in...

Happy Gilmore 2 eagled with the release of its Netflix sequel. (Did I get that golfing term right…? I gave up the sport in college.)

The 114-minute, Adam Sandler-led follow-up — nearly 30 years in the making! — racked up 46.7 million views in its opening weekend, marking the best bow for any of the SNL alum’s made-for-Netflix pix.

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Happy Gilmore 2 also delivered the biggest U.S. opening weekend of all-time for a Netflix flick.

Israeli actor Alon Aboutboul, known in the U.S. for his roles on the FX series Snowfall and the movies Rambo III, Munich and The Dark Knight Rises, has died. He was 60.

Aboutboul died after collapsing on HaBonim Beach near Tel Aviv on Tuesday morning, his manager Mark Teitelbaum told The Hollywood Reporter.

“Alon was a brilliant actor, a true artist, an Israeli icon … but more importantly, he was a loving father of his four children and a dear friend of mine and many others,” Teitelbaum told THR. “He possessed both a moral and spiritual clarity that is rare to find. As you might imagine, his family is in shock. He will be deeply missed. May his memory be a blessing.”

According to reports, Aboutboul received CPR but couldn’t be revived and had told bystanders, after emerging from the water, that he wasn’t well, according to a report in Ynet.

It looks like there’s still a healthy appetite for “Happy Gilmore,” with “Happy Gilmore 2” debuting with the biggest U.S. opening weekend viewership of all-time for a Netflix film.

“Happy Gilmore 2” scored a whopping 46.7 million views in its first three days on Netflix, soaring to the top of Netflix’s most-watched English-language films list during the week of July 21 and becoming the most-watched title on Netflix during the week. “Happy Gilmore 2” now ranks as the highest opening for any Adam Sandler Netflix film ever.

The release of “Happy Gilmore 2” also boosted viewership for the original movie, with “Happy Gilmore” logging 11.4 million views during the week of July 21 as the week’s No. 3 most-watched movie.

Sandwiched in between “Happy Gilmore” and “Happy Gilmore 2” was “KPop Demon Hunters,” which took the No. 2 spot on the most-watched movies list with 26.3 million views in its sixth week. After its popular run,...

At first glance, Prime Video’s We Were Liars and Netflix’s Milly Alcock series Sirens have different vibes. But what instantly connects them is their shared obsession with coastal opulence and how that glossy perfection hides something deep. Created by Vampire Diaries fame Julie Plec, We Were Liars is based on E. Lockhart’s bestselling young adult novel. The psychological mystery is set on an exclusive private island where one teenager’s return unlocks a tragic family secret.

Watching it rings a bell to Netflix’s Sirens, a dark comedy limited series starring Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon). She plays Simone, a young woman pulled into the orbit of a wealthy, controlling family on a secluded island estate.

Both shows take place on secluded islands that look like paradise but conceal deep truths. Both have shared aesthetic: luxury homes, curated perfection, and private islands. Yet as the stories unfold,...

With the arrival of the second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians this December, a lot of things will be different. One of them will be that Walker Scobell's Percy Jackson is no longer struggling with his identity so much. The demigod son of Poseidon has now entered the big leagues of Greek mythology. Season 2 will explore and adapt Sea of Monsters — the second book in the beloved book series written by Rick Riordan. The Disney+ series has been praised for being true to the source material, and the coming season looks poised to continue that trend. With that in mind, Season 2 will include the iconic Sirens scene from Sea of Monsters, a scene that was not captured in the 2013 film adaptation. Scobell has revealed how much pressure he is under regarding adapting that scene.

The Sirens scene will reveal that for the fiercely loyal and clever demigod Annabeth,...

While we're waiting for Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 to make its premiere on Disney+ in December 2025, there's so much to learn about the upcoming new season. It's been two years since the series first made its premiere and became a not only a hit but a fan-favorite. Soon, that wait will come to an end, but there's a "huge change" from the book in store in season 2.

From the beginning, the Percy Jackson television has made changes from Rick Riordan's popular book series, but series star Leah Jeffries, who plays Annabeth in the show, has now previewed one of the biggest changes yet in a new interview and season 2 preview with Entertainment Weekly. However, it sounds like a change fans might enjoy more than they expect.

For the first time, Percy Jackson season 2 will adapt the Sirens scene from Riordan's second novel in the series, The Sea of Monsters.

Walker Scobell reveals the "terrifying" pressure he feels surrounding Percy & Annabeth's iconic book scenes in Percy Jackson & the Olympians season 2. The upcoming season adapts Sea of Monsters, the second book in the beloved book series written by Rick Riordan.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians season 2's story will include the iconic Sirens scene from Sea of Monsters where Annabeth's fatal flaw is revealed to be excessive pride, also known as hubris. It is a pivotal moment for the couple, who are often referred to as "Percabeth."

This is the first time that the scene will be shown in live action since it was not featured in the 2013 Sea of Monsters movie. While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Scobell admits that "it's almost terrifying" to bring this scene to life considering how much it means to the fans. Check out his additional comments below:

"There's scenes like that where you feel like every...

Top 10 Most Viewed Shows Of 2025 On Netflix (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Six months have already passed in 2025, and Netflix has dropped the most-watched shows of the year. From Adolescence to Squid Game 3, some of the most popular shows have made it to the top 10 list worldwide. The popular South Korean survival drama also created history with its debut-week views. Keep scrolling for the deets.

The top three shows on this list have earned those spots by beating other trending series, including Sirens and Ginny & Georgia S3. They have garnered massive views and pushed past the rest of the competition. With these titles commanding the spotlight, the streaming giant once again proves its dominance in delivering content that resonates worldwide.

Adolescence rules #1 with 140M+ views!

According to Netflix‘s data, the British psychological crime drama took the world by storm when it hit the streaming platform. It is the second most-watched English-language show on Netflix,...

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Netflix‘s bi-annual engagement report provided the massive viewership figures we expected from juggernauts like “Adolescence” and “Squid Game,” but a closer look at the numbers shows just how powerful the South Korean franchise is for Netflix, as well as how valuable the streamer’s recent partnership with WWE has proven to be.

Beyond laying out the success of “Squid Game” and WWE’s Monday Night Raw, the report, which captures viewership for the first half of 2025, gave insight on massive audience for kids show “Ms. Rachel,” Korean content and true crime series, while the reality TV genre failed to make it to the top of the list.

The report also revealed cumulative viewership for canceled series like “The Residence,” “Pulse” and “The Recruit,” which sometimes performed better than...

The 2025 Emmy nominations were filled with some jaw-dropping picks, with several actors and programs beating the Gold Derby's odds.

In our latest snap poll, readers said the bids for Zoë Kravitz and Meghann Fahy caused their jaws to drop the widest. Kravitz was previously snubbed at the Emmys for Big Little Lies, but she received sweet justice this week for portraying herself — at least, a fictionalized version of herself caught in a drug-related mishap — on The Studio. In all, the Apple TV+ show received 23 nominations, more than any other first-year comedy in Emmy history.

As for Fahy, she's a former Emmy nominee for The White Lotus whom awards pundits forecasted would be overlooked this year for the Netflix limited series Sirens. But that wasn't the case. She clearly wowed voters in her role of Devon DeWitt, a woman who tries to protect her younger sister Simone (Milly Alcock) from her...

It’s a “Severance” world. The Apple TV+ series dominated this year’s Emmy nominations with 27 nods, and despite the show’s critical and ratings acclaim, Variety‘s Awards Circuit podcast hosts were still taken aback.

“Huge,” said Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. “I don’t think I even thought that much. That is more than ‘Shōgun’ last year.”

Davis was joined by Variety executive editor, TV, Michael Schneider, as well as senior TV features editor Emily Longeretta and senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay for the Awards Circuit Roundtable. Listen below!

The quartet also looked at some of the other big news from this week’s nods, including another Apple TV+ powerhouse, “The Studio,” which led all comedies with 23.

“We all knew ‘The Studio’ was going to do well, but I didn’t expect that,” said Longeretta. Schneider noted that it was helped by sheer dominance in the comedy guest actor category,...

On Netflix, it was a big first half of 2025 for limited series and — outside of phenom Squid Game — Ok six months for ongoing scripted series.

Only two English-language returning scripted series, The Night Agent (S2) and Ginny & Georgia (S3) made it into the Top 10 at #9 and #10, with four limited series ahead of them, Adolescence (#1), Zero Day (#4), Missing You (#5) and Sirens (#8).

Released today, Netflix’s semi-annual viewership report includes data for the three scripted series canceled so far this year, The Residence and Pulse after one season and The Recruit after two. None of them was an outright ratings flop.

Comedic White House murder mystery The Residence, starring Uzo Aduba, fared the best, ranking #23 with 33.3 million views from its March 20 release through June 30. New medical drama Pulse,...

Right after landing 13 Emmy nominations Tuesday, another bit of impressive news for Netflix’s Adolescence — the mighty limited series that could was by far the most-watched TV title on the streamer in the first half of the year.

In fact, with 145M views from its premiere date on March 13 through the end of June, it was the second most-watched title overall, behind only Jamie Foxx’s Back in Action (with 165M), per Netflix’s latest What We Watched report, which details viewing across every Netflix title from January 2025 to June 2025. It is worth noting, though, that Back in Action was released in January, which gave it a huge time advantage over Adolescence to make up an extra 20M or so views.

To further illustrate this monster performance for Adolescence, it’s more than both Seasons 2 and 3 of Squid Game, which were the second and third best performing titles of the...

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Netflix’s bet on “Ms. Rachel” has already paid off. The YouTube creator’s eponymous show was the seventh most-watched Netflix series in the first half of 2025, accounting for 53.4 million views. It also ranked as the most-watched season of any children’s show in the first half of the year.

That ranking is especially impressive considering that Netflix only released four episodes of the “Ms. Rachel” show. Those few episodes averaged 45 minutes each.

“Ms. Rachel” was more widely watched than several major Netflix original titles, besting the Emmy-nominated “Sirens,” Season 2 of “The Night Agent” and Season 3 of “Ginny & Georgia.” It was also more widely watched than both “Running Point” and “The Four Seasons” — two first-season shows that were quickly renewed due to their popularity — as well as the...

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Netflix released its semi-annual data dump on Thursday, and “Adolescence” and “Squid Game” emerged as the most-watched TV shows during the first half of 2025.

U.K. crime drama “Adolescence,” which debuted in March to massive viewership, was the most-watched TV show, regardless of language, from January through June 2025 with a whopping 144.8 million views, per Netflix.

“Squid Game” Season 2, which debuted in late December 2024 came behind “Adolescence” with 117.3 million views, adding to the 86.5 million views the season garnered between its Dec. 26 release and Dec. 31. Season 3, however, scored a similarly striking viewership as Season 2’s initial release as it tallied up 71.5 million views in just four days between its June 27 release and June 30, making “Squid Game” Season 3 the No. 3 most-watched TV show of the first half of 2025.

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Netflix topped Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations and raised its full-year forecast for revenue.

Earnings per share of $7.19 beat analysts’ consensus by a dime, while revenue of $11.079 billion exceeded the Street’s outlook by a much narrower margin. The bar for revenue was in the $11.06 billion range according to most surveys of analyst sentiment.

As it rolls out a big second half of 2025 on the programming front, Netflix said it was raising its revenue forecast for 2025. The updated guidance calls for revenue between $44.8 billion and $45.2 billion, up from the previous target of $43.5 billion to $44.5 billion.

“The majority of the increase in our revenue forecast reflects the recent depreciation of the U.S. dollar vs. most other currencies, with the balance attributable to continued business momentum driven by solid member growth and ad sales,” the company said in its quarterly letter to shareholders.

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(Stock image via Pixabay, Graphic by The Desk) Key Points: Revenue: $11.1 billion, up 16% compared to Q2 2024. Operating Income: $3.8 billion (+45%). Operating Margin: 34% (+7%). Diluted Eps: $7.19 (+47). Free Cash Flow: $2.3 billion (up from $1.2 billion during Q2 2024). 2025 Revenue Forecast: Raised to $44.8–$45.2 billion.

Strong interest in Netflix’s content and advertising opportunities helped drive overall global revenue during the second quarter (Q2) of 20525, the streaming video company reported on Thursday.

Netflix earned $11.1 billion in revenue during Q2, a 16 percent year-over increase and up from the $10.5 billion the company earned during Q1. Operating income rose to $3.8 billion, a 45 percent increase, while operating margin expanded to 34 percent, up from 27 percent in Q2 2024. Diluted earnings per share were $7.19, a 47 percent increase from the previous year.

“Both revenue and operating income were slightly above our guidance due primarily to F/X, net of hedging, and the timing of expenses,” the company wrote.

All geographic regions showed double-digit foreign exchange-neutral revenue growth,...

Netflix reported its remarkable second-quarter 2025 earnings Thursday and, as per its new custom, the results came sans new subscriber data. However, it did include the streamer’s viewership data dump for the first half of the year.

Wall Street forecast earnings per share (Eps) of $7.08 on $11.07 billion in revenue for the April-June quarter, according to Lseg Data & Analytics. Netflix reported diluted Eps of $7.19 on $11.08 billion in revenue, with that revenue figure being up 16% from last year. Operating margin stood at 34.1%.

That beat Netflix’s own expectations, as well as analysts’, as Netflix had projected revenue growth of 15% and Eps of $7.03, as well as an operating margin of 33% (up approximately 6% from the same period last year).

Netflix said the sales growth was “primarily a function of more members, higher subscription pricing

and increased ad revenue,” adding that “all regions experienced healthy year-over-year revenue growth,” with United States and Canada revenue growing...

The 2025 Emmy Nominations have been revealed, and as expected, there are some big winners and some losers. There are also a number of shocks as well and, perhaps, chief among them centers on the fact that Squid Game has not earned a single nomination. In 2021, the K-drama phenomenon debuted to critical acclaim and widespread popularity on Netflix. The first season earned itself14 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning six of them. Those included Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Lee Jung-jae as Gi-hun) and Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. This time around, the show has been completely snubbed and even Netflix is shocked.

“‘Squid Game’ had an incredible cultural impact. Biggest show in the world. That first season really made Emmy history, and people loved this last season too. I am disappointed for Director Hwang and the cast," Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria told Variety in an interview. "For...

Squid Game, the survival thriller from Korea that still holds the record for Netflix's most-watched show, recently ended its three-season run. Despite a large wait, viewers still tuned in to see how things unfolded and ended in Seasons 2 and 3, which had great viewership numbers as well. Naturally, the streamer is campaigning for the show to sweep the award shows, but this didn't exactly work with the Television Academy and its Emmys ceremony. Squid Game Season 2 did not receive a single nomination, and Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria has something to say about it.

Bajaria spoke to Variety about this weird omission for the Korean giant created by Hwang Dong-hyuk. The show's impact is unmatched, but it is a reality that, after Season 1, things were not the same. The follow-ups just didn't have the same power in terms of cultural effect. Season 1 was well-received by award organizations, and in...

Fans of Sirens received a few welcome surprises on Emmy nomination morning — four to be exact. While the Netflix original limited series was a big hit for the streamer, it wasn't seen as a major awards contender.

That changed this morning, however, when Sirens snagged a quartet of nominations within the Limited, Anthology Series, or Movie categories.

The most notable among those nods was Meghann Fahy, who made it into Best Limited/Movie Actress for playing Devon DeWitt. Though she had been previously nominated for her work on the second season of The White Lotus, Fahy was far from a sure thing in the category.

Prior to nominations, Gold Derby predictions had Fahy ranked 15th in the category, behind actresses like Renée Zellweger from Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Kaitlyn Dever from Apple Cider Vinegar, who both missed out on nominations.

Sirens also made it into the competitive directing category with Nicole Kassell,...

When it comes to the recent 2024-2025 TV season, one series dominated viewership in the United States far and above anything else: Season 2 of Netflix’s “Squid Game.” It wasn’t even close: Include multiplatform viewing for all series — broadcast, cable and streaming — and the show dominated. And yet, “Squid Game” was completely ignored this year by Television Academy voters, and the show didn’t receive a single nomination on Tuesday.

It’s not that “Squid Game” isn’t an Emmy show. In Season 1, the Korean-based series received 14 nominations and won six — including outstanding drama directing (for Hwang Dong-hyuk) and lead drama actor (Lee Jung-jae). So how could it be completely blanked in Season 2? Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria was wondering the same thing.

“‘Squid Game’ had an incredible cultural impact. Biggest show in the world,” she told Variety. “That first season really made Emmy history, and people loved this last season too.

Cristin Milioti is no new face in television.

Whether she caught your eye in “Black Mirror,” “How I Met Your Mother,” way back on “The Sopranos” in her first TV role, or during that killer “30 Rock” cameo, her work always stands out in already impressive projects, right down to her Emmy-nominated turn in “The Penguin.”

Milioti’s performance earned her a nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, alongside Cate Blanchett for “Disclaimer,” Michelle Williams for “Dying for Sex,” Rashida Jones for “Black Mirror,” and Meghann Fahy for “Sirens.” On the heels of Tuesday’s nomination announcement, IndieWire caught up with the artist formerly known as Sofia Falcone (it’s Gigante now!) about the recognition, revisiting the character, and suiting back up for “Black Mirror” Season 7.

The following interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

IndieWire: We spoke to you in December about “The Penguin,...