Scots nursing home residents have shared their advice when it comes to finding love - and keeping it.
24.01.2024 - 01:21 / deadline.com
Netflix’ crackdown on password sharing, or as the streamer calls it a focus on “paid sharing,” will drive growth for years to come, said the streamer’s co-CEO, addressing a Wall Street concern that benefits may top out this year.
“Our paid sharing work, and our ads work, creates a more effective engine to translate all [Netflix] value into revenue growth, and will support increased conversion of our addressable market in many years to come,” promised Greg Peters on the fourth-quarter earnings video call. That engine, he stressed, “works on top of very healthy organic growth” driven by content including TV series and movies, games, and now live events following a long-term deal with WWE announced earlier today.
“We’re excited to be at the point where we’ve operationalized that paid- sharing product work. It’s integrated into everything we do, and we are iterating and improving on it just like we would any other significant part of our product experience.”
Peters was responding to an analyst asking what happens once subscriber and ARM (average revenue per membership) benefits from paid sharing begin to diminish in 2024.
Netflix launched paid sharing in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2023 having successfully tested it in Canada, New Zealand, Spain and Portugal.
In its letter to shareholders this afternoon, the company said, “We believe we’ve successfully addressed account sharing, ensuring that when people enjoy Netflix they pay for the service too. Features like Transfer Profile and Extra Member were much requested, and many millions of our members are now taking advantage of them.”
“At this stage, paid sharing is our normal course of business — creating a much bigger base from which we can grow and enabling us to
Scots nursing home residents have shared their advice when it comes to finding love - and keeping it.
Patrick Kielty has revealed the romantic gesture which helped him to win over his now-wife Cat Deeley, after being friends for many years. The TV presenter, 53, married Cat, 47, in 2012 and the couple are parents to two children, Milo, seven, and James, five. Patrick and Cat first connected on BBC talent show Fame Academy, which they co-hosted together in 2002.
In an under-the-radar move that will delight many in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has added a new category to the Academy Awards. Beginning with the 98th Oscars in 2026, an achievement in Casting Oscar will be handed out for the first time.
Former Dancing on Ice presenter Phillip Schofield is "finally ready for a TV comeback”, after he was seen for the first time following the show’s iconic return without him at the helm. Phillip famously stepped down from all of his presenting duties last year, after it was revealed he had engaged in an 'unwise but not illegal' affair with a junior colleague while he was working on ITV flagship daytime show This Morning - and lied about it to production staff. Since stepping down, Phillip has mostly kept a low profile following the abrupt end of such a prolific career, however after he was recently spotted shopping and looking far more relaxed, one body language expert believes the star may now be ready to return to TV in the not too distant future.
Guns N’ Roses have released the trippy, AI-generated new video for ‘The General’, a track they released in December 2023.Produced with creative director Dan Potter of the London-based studio Creative Works, the video combines live footage with animated sequences that were produced with artificial intelligence. According to Consequence, the band detailed the animated portions of the video in a press release.“Between the concert footage, [the video] dives into the subconscious of a young boy who stares down the monsters of dark childhood memories, blurring worlds in the process,” it wrote.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor It’s the beginning of the end for Netflix‘s lowest-cost plan that does not include advertising. In reporting results for the fourth quarter of 2023, in which it added a better-than-expected 13.1 million net subscribers, Netflix touted its ad-supported plan as accounting for 40% of all Netflix sign-ups in markets where it has launched that, and said the number of subscribers on ad tiers grew almost 70% quarter-over-quarter. The company didn’t break out subscriber numbers but said it recently surpassed 23 million monthly active unique users on advertising tiers.
Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters says the company once contemplated an advertising strategy similar to the one used by Amazon, which starting this month is making subscribers pay extra in order to avoid ads.
The Black Keys have shared an energetic new video for their single ‘Beautiful People (Stay High)’ from their forthcoming LP.The track serves as the first offering from their 12th album ‘Ohio Players‘ which is set for release on April 5 via Nonesuch/Warner. Today (January 23) the band have released the single’s accompanying video.Directed by Chris Saunders, the video showcases beautiful people across the world, bringing high-energy dancing to match the track’s retro-inspired, feel-good sentiment.‘Beautiful People (Stay High)’ was written by the band’s own Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, alongside help from longtime friends Dan “The Automator” Nakamura and Beck.‘Ohio Players’ will feature a variety of guest appearances too, including collaborations with the likes of Noel Gallagher and Beck. Pre-order/pre-save it here.“We had this epiphany: ‘We can call our friends to help us make music’,” Carney said of the collaborative approach the band had towards the project.
Will Ferrell has received praise for his support of the transgender community ahead of the premiere of the new documentary Will & Harper.The film explores the friendship between Ferrell and Harper Steele, a former Saturday Night Live writer, who came out as transgender in 2022. The film received its first official screening at the Sundance Film Festival this week.In a video clip with Variety that has gone viral, Ferrell says: “It was three summers ago in which Harper emailed a lot of her close friends with the headline: ‘Here’s a Weird One’.
Although the start of January is mostly for recovering from Christmas and hiding from the cold, as February finally draws nearer now is the perfect time for getting your home shipshape and ready for the rest of 2024. We might be wistfully dreaming of a proper spring clean, but with storms still raging across the UK we’ll settle for something more achievable, like making sure our day-to-day routines are a little easier to manage, which is exactly where the latest home hack from Stacey Solomon comes in.
Anna Marie de la Fuente Spain’s fast-growing Secuoya Studios has tapped seasoned Sony Pictures Television International exec Brendan Fitzgerald for the newly-created position of CEO. His most recent position as SPTI’s senior VP of international English-language co-productions makes him the perfect fit for the company’s lofty ambitions.
The Flight Attendant will not return for a third season, it has been confirmed by HBO Max.The comedy-drama-thriller was developed by Steve Yockey (Supernatural), and based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian. It starred Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) in the title role, and first aired in November 2020, with the second season following two years later.The show followed Cuoco’s Cassie Bowden, an alcoholic flight attendant who regularly hooked up with passengers after the flights, but is shocked one morning to find a dead body lying next to her.
It’s been an emotional few days for footballing star Ashley Cain this week, as he safely welcomed a baby boy with his girlfriend, just two years on since the tragic loss of his daughter Azaylia. Naturally, the new arrival sparked quite a reaction from fans, with his sons name in particular having drawn the ire of many critics as his son, Aliyas Diamond Cain, shared the exact same initials as his late daughter, who tragically died of Leukaemia back in 2021. Despite the backlash from his followers however, Ashley has also been inundated with plenty of messages of support too, something he even went on to thank his fans for.
The Flight Attendant will not be returning for a third season. The show, which was originally set as a limited series, aired two seasons on Max, with the second season ending in May 2022.
opposite Tom Cruise in the 1988 movie “Cocktail” as a charismatic barkeep, says its success meant drinks were on the house.“I got a lot of free drinks all over the world from that movie,” he told the Post in a recent interview, adding that the scenes of him and Cruise, 61, juggling glasses and cocktail mixers “completely changed the nature of bartending for probably the next 12 years.”The Australian actor, 76, can currently be seen in the Netflix mini-series, “Boy Swallows Universe” based on the Trent Dalton book of the same name.In it, he plays Arthur ‘Slim’ Halliday, which is based on a real-life charismatic criminal with a long rap sheet, who for a time was a babysitter and friend for a young boy.Brown says he was immediately drawn in when he read the script and loved that his character was presented with “no judgment.”“We live in a world where we judge everything,” he explained. “And instead of just taking it on and going, ‘Well, that’s life,’ (instead) we tend to judge, other lives all the time.
Prince William, the heir apparent to the British throne, could potentially break away from the Church of England when he takes over the monarchy from his father, King Charles III. “In royal circles, it is no secret that he does not share the king’s sense of the spiritual, let alone the late queen’s unshakeable devotion to the Anglican church,” Hardman, 59, writes of William in “The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy.” In his book, which is set to hit stores Thursday, one senior staff member claims that the Prince of Wales, 41, is not quite as religious as some might think.
Netflix is ready to debut its scripted comedy featuring rapper Vince Staples.
Holly Willoughby has spoken out on social media for the first time since announcing her This Morning exit almost three months ago to the day. The presenter returned to her Instagram page on Friday (January 12), marking her first post since sharing her exit statement on October 10.
Actor Toby Jones has won the nation's hearts while portraying real life hero Alan Bates in ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office, and fans have been left shocked after discovering a rather surprising role he had in the past.Toby, 57, has starred in a number of popular films and TV shows, and has appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Unvierse, the Harry Potter franchise, and The Hunger Games trilogy. He appeared as Dr.
Ariana Grande has dropped a teaser for her upcoming single ‘yes, and?’. Check it out below.The new trailer for the long-awaited track was shared by the singer earlier today (January 11), and in it, it sees her take aim at her biggest critics.In the clip, a number of critics are seen together in an elevator, making catty comments about Grande and agreeing on how they aren’t fans of her newer work as they still miss the earlier days of her career.“You know I think I liked her better when her ponytail was a few centimetres higher,” one says, while another agrees, saying: “Right, and I mean, who cares if she’s happy? I don’t want happy.