Emily in Paris fans have complained as Netflix confirmed its fourth season will air in two parts.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Netflix will no longer report subscriber numbers — which has been a key metric for streaming services for years — beginning with the first quarter of 2025. The company made the announcement in releasing its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday. Netflix handily topped expectations for subscribers net adds, gaining 9.33 million in the period, to reach nearly 270 million globally.
It also beat Wall Street expectations on the top and bottom lines. Despite the Q1 earnings beat, Netflix shares dropped more than 3% in after-hours trading Thursday, possibly as investors reacted negatively to the news that the streamer will stop reporting quarterly sub totals. In its Q1 letter to shareholders, Netflix said that engagement — time spent with the service — is its “best proxy for customer satisfaction.” As such, it will no longer report quarterly membership numbers or average revenue per member (which it dubs “ARM”), as of Q1 2025.
Netflix said it will announce “major subscriber milestones as we cross them” but will cease disclosing quarterly subscriber numbers. Netflix continues to see solid subscriber gains in markets around the world; for example, it netted 2.53 million new customers in the U.S. and Canada in Q1.
But eventually those sub numbers will start to plateau, and the company wants to reorient investors toward time-spent-viewing metrics where it has more potential upside in the years ahead. Co-CEO Greg Peters said on the earnings call that Netflix’s number of subscribers has been a decreasingly relevant measure for the health of the company’s business. He cited, as an example, Netflix’s paid-sharing initiative, which gives primary account holders the option to add an “extra member” for an
.Emily in Paris fans have complained as Netflix confirmed its fourth season will air in two parts.
Willow Smith rejects the nepo baby label.
All good things come to an end, but in the case of “Cobra Kai,” Netflix wants to make the goodbye last as long as possible. The streamer announced today that their popular series’ sixth and final season will premiere in three parts, with the first arriving this summer.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Cobra Kai” Season 6 is getting a super-sized sendoff. As part of the Netflix Is A Joke Festival, the streaming giant has announced that the final season of the popular series will consist of 15 episodes, with the season to be split into three five-episode blocks. The first five episodes will premiere on July 18, while the second batch of five will premiere on Nov.
Jenna Ortega will not be returning to the upcoming animated Jurassic World series on Netflix.The actor voiced the character Brooklynn in five seasons of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous from 2020 to 2022, but in the upcoming sequel series, titled Chaos Theory, Ortega will not be involved (per Variety).Netflix has dropped the trailer for Chaos Theory, which you can watch below. The series is due to premiere later in 2024.Camp Cretaceous, which was the first official Jurassic Park television series, followed dinosaur fanatic Darius Bowman (Paul-Mikel Williams) and a group of six teenage campers who become stranded on Isla Nublar after the dinosaurs break free from their enclosures.Ortega, whose Brooklynn character was one of those six, appears not to have survived into the timeline of Chaos Theory, which picks up the story some time after the conclusion of Camp Cretaceous.In other Ortega news, her recent film Miller’s Girl has received some criticism.
EXCLUSIVE: Following her breakout role as Shin Hati in the hit Star Wars series Ahsoka, Ivanna Sakhno has found her next big role. Sources tell Deadline she has landed a major part in M3GAN 2.0, a sequel to the hit film from Atomic Monster and Blumhouse in association with Divide/Conquer. She joins a cast that includes Allison Williams and Violet McGraw.
Will Moseley is one of the Top 7 contestants on American Idol this season, but PETA wants him out of the competition.
Katcy Stephan Missy Elliott is joining Universal Pictures’ untitled Pharrell Williams and Michel Gondry musical project. She joins Halle Bailey, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Oscar nominee Brian Tyree Henry and Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph in a coming-of-age musical set in Virginia Beach in the summer of 1977 and inspired by the Atlantis Apartments, located in Williams’ childhood neighborhood. Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “The Science of Sleep”) is set to direct the project based on a script by Martin Hynes (“Toy Story 4,” “The Magician’s Elephant”) and Steven Levenson (“Tick, Tick…Boom,” “Fosse/Verdon”).
In a matter of days, The Prince and Princess of Wales will celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary. While this is impressive enough, the couple have been in one another's lives for more than twenty years. Very few of us need reminding that the royal couple met when they were both students at the University of St Andrews in Scotland in 2001.
Love Island's Jessie Wynter has confessed that she would get engaged to her boyfriend Will Young in a heartbeat.The 27 year old met the 25 year old farmer on last year's series of Winter Love Island, where the pair's relationship blossomed during their time in the South African villa. Fast forward over a year, and Jessie, who is from Tasmania but lived in Sydney before Love Island has embraced her new life in the UK, after she decided to stay with Will on his Buckinghamshire farm following the show. Now, with their relationship going from strength to strength, Jessie has admitted that the pair have even talked about getting hitched.
A murder-mystery spoof boasting a cast of comedy legends is set to return to screens and once again stars some very familiar faces. Johnny Vegas and Sian Gibson reprise their roles as Terry Bremmer and Gemma Draper in Murder, They Hope.
EXCLUSIVE: M3GAN and Girls star Allison Williams is set to executive-produce and star alongside Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia) in the murder mystery Kill Me, which will XYZ will be selling at the upcoming Cannes market.
Ever since he first barrelled onto our screens back in 2017, The Repair Shop star Will Kirk has been delighting audiences at home with his phenomenal restoration skills. Working as the show’s resident wood expert, Will has been able to masterfully restore countless treasured items back to their former glory and help to preserve precious memories and sentimental trinkets for generations to come.
Netflix UK will not be changing its commissioning course when the streamer stops reporting quarterly subs numbers, according to its programing chief.
had fans startled and worried over his lean frame and gaunt face after what appears to be significant weight loss, as rumors swirl that he takes Ozempic.An insider anonymously told Daily Mail that public concern for Disick”s health has made him reconsider the weight loss medication, which another source previously alleged he was taking.“Scott recognized that he needed to stop taking Ozempic after seeing the photos of himself and the public outcry over his weight loss,” they claimed.“He thought he looked good because he was thinner again — not realizing that this was not healthy.”“Scott has been incredibly attractive and fit his entire life and is not having the best time accepting that age is catching up with him,” they added.The unnamed source claimed that Disick is now working with a nutritionist in order to maintain his physical health but “not balloon up to the size he was.”The Post reached out to Disick’s reps for comment.Numerous celebrities, like Oprah and Sharon Osborne, have opened up about their weight loss on Ozempic, while many more have been rumored to use the costly jab.But plastic surgeons have recently warned of some unsavory side effects of the medication, such as “Ozempic face,” a term used to describe the sunken look of someone’s face who loses a drastic amount of weight while on the drug.The use of Ozempic, a GLP-1 agonist manufactured by pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, seems to be accompanied with some other unsightly reactions that go beyond aesthetics, such as bowel problems and noxious belches.
Netflix added 9.3 million subscribers in the quarter ended March 31, reaching 269.6 million worldwide, and outperformed expectations in other key areas in its latest strong financial report.
Netflix said today it will stop reporting quarterly subscriber numbers starting in 2025, a huge change for the giant streamer whose stock tends to get buffeted up or down (mostly up lately) by those numbers. In a letter to shareholders along with first-quarter earnings, the company said it’s now focused on other metrics and that memberships “are just one component of our growth.”
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Viaplay‘s streaming service — specializing in award-winning Scandinavian series and films — is now available as an add-on subscription on Amazon‘s Prime Video Channels in the United States. Starting Wednesday, Prime members in the U.S.
Fans of the recent series of Strictly Come Dancing have been left emotional as Layton Williams made a huge announcement saying he’s ‘back’ with his dancing partner.
Ryan Coogler is teaming up again with Michael B. Jordan for an untitled Warner Bros. supernatural thriller.