Netflix: Lower Content Spend Due To Strikes Leads To Free Cash Flow Boost As Streamer Takes Swipe At Rivals Over Ratings Transparency

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Following BBC presenter Arielle Free's suspension after an awkward exchange with her colleague, Charlie Hedges, her replacement has been revealed. The Radio 1 presenter will be off the air this week following an incident that saw her criticise music during a live broadcast. Appearing briefly on Charlie’s Dance Anthems Ibiza show on Saturday (29 July), Arielle told the broadcaster: "Can I be honest with you?...

BBC Radio 1 DJ Arielle Free has been taken off air after clashing with her colleague over the choice of music during a live broadcast in Ibiza.Free made a brief appearance on Charlie Hedges’ Dance Anthems Ibiza show on Sunday (July 30) but was cut off for saying she didn’t like a song he was playing.After she was introducted, she told Hedges, who was playing ‘My Barn, My Rules’ by Stream MCR-T and horsegiirL: “Can I be honest with you Charlie? I expected better of you. I don’t like this song…I hate it.” As she began to further criticise the song’s lyrics, Hedges turned her mic down.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Seth MacFarlane has donated $1 million to The Entertainment Community Fund to help provide financial assistance for industry workers during the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. The organization, formerly known as The Actors Fund, also exclusively tells me that recent donors include The Katie McGrath & JJ Abrams Family Foundation, Stacey Abrams, Annette Bening, Tom Bergeron, Greg Berlanti, Rachel Bloom, Rosanne Cash in memory of Johnny Cash, Suzanne Collins and Cap Pryor, Vince Gilligan, Lynn Nottage, Michelle Pfeiffer and David E.

Red Rooms won a leading three awards including Best Feature at the 27th annual Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, with the thriller Femme taking Best Director for Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping and Outstanding Performance for Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. See the full list of winners below.

The trailer for Josh Hutcherson and Morgan Freeman‘s new action thriller has been released!

Major Sony release date changes here, a bulk of them due to the actors strike.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Bethenny Frankel has enlisted two of the most high-profile attorneys in Hollywood to help in her self-proclaimed fight to help protect reality stars from what she says is exploitation by networks and studios. Power players Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos are now working alongside Frankel to investigate the treatment of reality stars. Freedman tells me that he has heard from roughly 50 reality show cast members from various docuseries and competition shows who believe that they were “used and unfairly” treated by television networks and streamers.

Billy Ray is back for the 13th installment of Deadline Strike Talk, the weekly podcast that began at the start of the Writers Guild strike against AMPTP. With writers and actors petrified at the job cutting and ecosystem-destroying potential of AI, Ray re-engages the technology in conversation, as he did in his week seven podcast. But this time, with a new twist.

Drake is taking shots at Pusha T and Pharrell Williams in the track “Meltdown”, which appears on Travis Scott’s new album Utopia.

Netflix has sparked an outcry by listing a vacancy for a new $900,000-a-year product manager role for their AI Machine Learning programme in the midst of the SAG-AFTRA strike.The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) union went on strike earlier this month, after negotiations broke down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over streaming residuals and safeguards against AI technology.According to the job description, the Product Manager position will focus on “increasing the leverage of our Machine Learning Platform.” The MLP is Netflix’s in-house AI program, which has traditionally been used to power the streamer’s algorithmic recommendations. Per Netflix’s research page, the company is now making more use of the program to “optimise” film and TV production, although it’s not clear how they plan to do so.We all know one of the biggest issues both of the striking guilds, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, have with AMPTP’s offer for a new contract is a lack of protection against and regulation of AI.

Brielle Biermann is cleaning out her closet and saying goodbye to some of her most precious designer belongings. 

Naman Ramachandran The BBC invested £128.5 million ($165.7 million) into TV and radio content in the first two years of its Creative Diversity Commitment, a year ahead of target. In doing so, it exceeded the original commitment of £112 million into on-screen and on-air diversity and inclusion.

The Gray House, a Civil War spy drama series that is being produced by Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman, is the latest high-profile project to land an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA.

Editors note: As part of Deadline’s ongoing coverage of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, we have been giving voice to below-the-line workers who have been impacted by the work stoppage. Here, we decided to change gears by asking a writer to recall first-hand what it was like to create a low-budget series for Netflix that had no full-time writers room. Fearful that it may impact their ability to find jobs in the future, they asked that their name not be used.

“The View” hosts are the latest to speak out about Jason Aldean’s controversial song “Try That in a Small Town”.

Sophia Scorziello editor Live Nation’s concert streaming platform Veeps has set its first-ever global film premiere with rock documentary “What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?” The doc’s exclusive PVOD release on Veeps follows its March 2023 theatrical release, which was helmed by Abramorama. The exclusive Veeps screenings will take place on August 20 at 12 p.m. ET and 8 p.m. ET. Veeps is offering two tiers of tickets, the first going for $12.99 which gives access to the screening, and the second for $24.99, which includes screening access along with a CD copy of the documentary’s soundtrack. Both tickets provide audiences with a 3-day rewatch window. In addition, each of the two PVOD screenings will host a live Q&A with filmmaker John Scheinfeld and Blood, Swear and Tear’s band member Bobby Colomby.

Iconic Coronation Street characters Rita and Mavis, aka acting legends Barbara Knox and Thelma Barlow, were reunited once again at the annual RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park on Wednesday. Rita actress Barbara was invited to attend the show as a rose has been named in her honour to celebrate her upcoming 90th birthday, writes the MEN.

Netflix acknowledged the punishing landscape that is streaming today but — even as some now question the entire model — insisted it’s a good business if you’ve got “strong execution and focus” and it does.

It’s been quite a week for filmmaker Andrew Ahn. 

Paramount+ has canceled the red carpet premiere of upcoming series “Special Ops: Lioness” amid the recently enacted SAG-AFTRA strike, TheWrap has confirmed.“In light of today’s news of an official SAG strike, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the red carpet premiere of ‘Special Ops: Lioness,’ planned for Tuesday, July 18,” the streamer wrote in a statement. “We recognize this is disappointing news and apologize for any inconvenience it causes.