Lena Dunham has found the stars of her new Netflix series!
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A reality version of Netflix’s Korean thriller hit Squid Game has been hailed as “the most gripping reality TV since The Traitors” - yet scored a shockingly low score with critics on review site Rotten Tomatoes.
Squid Game: The Challenge recreates much of the original show, down to the outfits and sets, although the lethal re-imaginings of childhood games have lower stakes this time round – rather than death, contestants instead face elimination.
Each elimination adds 10,000 dollars to a 4.56 million dollar (£3.66 million) prize pot, described as the largest in reality TV history. The new show, which launched on Netflix on Wednesday morning (November 22), has been praised for its meticulous recreation of so many elements of the original drama, which became the streamer’s most watched show.
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The Guardian said: “The real-life version of the Netflix drama is a grandiose, addictive spectacle that will have you shouting at your TV before the end of episode one." The review added: “Squid Game: The Challenge not only works, but may turn out to be the most gripping reality TV since The Traitors.”
The Independent also compared the show to BBC’s hit reality series The Traitors, saying: “For all that the ghost of its Korean cousin sticks in the mind, this is little more than a combination of The Traitors and Takeshi’s Castle.”
And viewers agreed too, with many taking to X, formerly Twitter, to share their thoughts. @TaylorBBAFPwin said: "The squid game challenge is so good I fear....
Lena Dunham has found the stars of her new Netflix series!
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Lena Dunham has set a new romantic comedy series at Netflix, with Megan Stalter & Will Sharpe set to star, Deadline has confirmed. The 10-episode Too Much is the first series created by Dunham since HBO’s Camping, which aired for one season in 2018. Production will begin in the UK in 2024.
Lena Dunham and her husband Luis Felber have co-created a romantic comedy series titled “Too Much” for Netflix. Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe are set to star. “Too Much” follows Jessica (Stalter), a New York workaholic in her mid-30s who is reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows.
BreAnna Bell Ray Romano has signed on to star in Liz Feldman’s forthcoming dark comedy at Netflix, “No Good Deed.” According to Netflix, the “Everybody Loves Raymond” star will portray Paul, a contractor desperate to retire, pay off his debts and get out of Los Angeles. Constantly stressed and flat broke, Paul’s solution to his money problems is to sell his beautiful Los Feliz home, but his past mistakes will continue to haunt him. The eight-episode dark comedy follows “three very different families vying to buy the very same 1920s Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems.
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Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was sleeping with a minimum of three women a night — at the same time. “It was a slow night [if I had] a threesome, usually when I was tired,” he told The Post.
Deal Or No Deal viewers praised the latest contestant and said he made the “right decision” as he won the biggest prize since the show was rebooted. Stevie, a truck driver from Scotland, took the banker's offer of £24,600, despite still being in with a chance of taking home £75,000.
A popular film from 2011 is to be remade into a series, prompting complaints from Netflix subscribers. The streamer confirmed a reimagined version of One Day, which originally starred Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, will land on the small screen in February.
Netflix viewers 'cant' get over' the platform's latest mini-drama which tells the harrowing story of the world's worst industrial disaster. Fans have the four-parter 'eye opening' and 'gut wrenching'.
John Lennon‘s murderer reportedly apologised after shooting him dead, according to a witness interviewed for a new Apple TV+ docuseries.First announced in October, John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial will land on the streamer on December 6 and examines the pre-meditated crime and its aftermath by troubled fan Mark David Chapman, who fatally shot the former Beatle outside of his New York City apartment block on December 8, 1980. The three-part series is narrated by actor Kiefer Sutherland.The makers of Murder Without A Trial were “granted extensive Freedom of Information Act requests from the New York City Police Department, the Board of Parole and the District Attorney’s office” and features interviews with Lennon’s friends and Chapman’s defence lawyers, psychiatrists, detectives and prosecutors.
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A new NYPD detective will be joining the force on the upcoming 23rd season of Law & Order. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Veep alum Reid Scott has joined the upcoming season as a new series regular on the NBC police procedural, portraying an as-yet unamed NYPD detective.
While Martin Scorsese is still fairly concerned about the state of cinema in the modern day, that doesn’t mean he has given up on TV. In fact, for his next TV project, he’s teaming up with none other than Steven Spielberg for a series inspired by one of his own films, “Cape Fear.” READ MORE: Steven Spielberg Wants Martin Scorsese To Work With Robert De Niro At Least Three More Times According to Deadline, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are teaming up to produce a new series based on “Cape Fear.” The show, which is created and showrun by Nick Antosca (“The Act”) will be inspired by the 1991 film of the same name, as well as the 1962 film and the original novel.
Jon Stewart can’t stop co-headlining.The former “Daily Show” host, who shared the stage with Pete Davidson and John Mulaney earlier this year, is now splitting time with comedian and podcaster Tom Segura.On Tuesday, Dec. 12 and Wednesday, Dec.13, the unlikely duo will bring the funny to Montclair, NJ’s Wellmont Theater.“Come see one of the greatest comedic voices of our generation and also Jon Stewart will be on the shows as well,” Segura cracked on Instagram.While our team hasn’t seen Segura live, the NY Post caught Stewart live in Atlantic City earlier this year.
If you like narrative storytelling of any kind, either in movies or TV, chances are you’re a fan of writer/director/creator Scott Frank (screenwriter of “Minority Report,” “Get Shorty”), whether you know it or not. Frank had success in movies—he’s a two-time Oscar nominee for writing “Out of Sight” (1998) and “Logan”— and earned the respect of peers like Steven Soderbergh and Tony Gilroy, among many others, but it’s arguably not until Netflix started expanding their movie ideas into series form—which is precisely what Frank did with 2017’s Western “Godless,” that he really started to stretch his wings and shine.
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