A British Airways flight from London to Tel Aviv has been diverted due to “safety” concerns. The flight was due to arrive in Tel Aviv, Israel at 3.05pm this afternoon but the airline has made the decision to return the aircraft to Heathrow.
22.09.2023 - 00:19 / deadline.com
About six weeks after the Writers Guild of America went on strike for the first time in more than 15 years, eight seasons of Suits landed on Netflix.
All nine seasons had already been available on Peacock, but the “Netflix effect” rapidly proved itself once again. The streamer unexpectedly struck gold.
In its first week on Netflix, Suits clocked 2.3 billion viewing minutes across both platforms, according to Nielsen streaming data. Its reign would continue for the rest of the summer, as the title soared above 3B viewing minutes the next week and stayed there for nearly two months. As of Nielsen’s latest report, Suits is still performing unfathomably well, tallying 2.7B viewing minutes during the week of August 20.
Suits isn’t the first series to find new life on Netflix, and it certainly will not be the last. But although the deal with Netflix had likely been made well before the strike, the timing couldn’t have been more prophetic. As writers — and eventually the actors — were marching in the summer heat for better pay, especially from streaming residuals, Suits became a perfect case study.
Coming on the heels of celebrities like Aaron Paul and Mandy Moore — whose respective hits Breaking Bad and This Is Us are consistent crowd pleasers for streaming platforms — insisting they were making pennies in residuals, everyone began to wonder: How much are the writers and actors receiving from a massive success like this?
Put simply, the answer is not much, but not nothing.
Residuals are guild-mandated payments made to actors, directors, writers and others involved in the making of film and TV as compensation for cable reruns, syndication, DVD release and licensing to streaming media. They are just one of several ways that
A British Airways flight from London to Tel Aviv has been diverted due to “safety” concerns. The flight was due to arrive in Tel Aviv, Israel at 3.05pm this afternoon but the airline has made the decision to return the aircraft to Heathrow.
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