Netflix CEO Reed Hastings On COVID-19 Subscriber Surge: People “Want To Be Able To Escape And Connect”

Daniel Diemer plays leading man Paul Munsky in the endearing teen romance, The Half Of It, which currently scores an overwhelmingly positive 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Rita Ora has shared details about her upcoming third studio album.

The highest rate of coronavirus cases of any county on the West Coast is Washington state's Yakima County. Health experts point to a large number of essential workers, a large number of cases in long-term care facilities and a large agricultural workforce living and working in close quarters as the causes.

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Cable operator Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Broadband owns a big stake, would love to see financial relief for its subscribers for sports events that have been canceled amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Charter chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge on the company's Friday first-quarter earnings conference call said that he and his team have talked "for years about the reality of programming costs and how sports drives" most of them.

Netflix's tells the story of Ellie Chu ('s ), a shy, straight-A, friendless Chinese-American high school senior who makes extra cash by writing papers for her fellow classmates in the backwoods of the sleepy Washington town of Squahamish. When she reluctantly agrees to help football jock Paul Munsky () write love letters for his crush, school beauty Aster Flores (), the girl Ellie secretly crushes on, the unlikely trio embark on an unconventional triangle.

There’s a lovely friendship at the center of Alice Wu's sweet, sincere high school Cyrano story, revealing what we've been missing from teen movies.

After a spectacular debut season of Netflix’s Queen Sono, the streaming giant has announced that the series will officially be returning for a second season. The series has made history by being Netflix’s first script to screen original production on the continent.

“Sesame Street” has teamed up with CNN for “The ABC’s of COVID-19,” a town hall directed toward children and parents that aired on Saturday, April 25.

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An additional 66 Los Angeles County residents have died from COVID-19 illness in the past 24 hours, it was reported Wednesday. That brings the total number of deaths across the county during the coronavirus pandemic to 729, with 89 percent of those patients suffering from underlying health conditions.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' compensation reached $38.6 million, up about 7 percent compared with $36.1 million in 2018, the streaming video giant disclosed in a regulatory filing Wednesday. He had made $24.4 million in 2017 and $23.2 million in 2016.

Another 46 people have died in Los Angeles County since Monday due to COVID-19 illness, bringing the total number to 663. For a second straight day, the number of newly diagnosed positive cases has increased significantly — Tuesday by 1,400, Monday by 1,491 — due to a backlog of cases, Dr.

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