New insights are still being unearthed after Netflix dumped the viewership data for nearly its entire catalog from the first half of 2023, which includes more than 18,000 titles.
04.12.2023 - 16:19 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Stephen Robinson last night rued the moment that mattered after Rangers made a timely breakthrough to sicken St Mirren.
A deadly double from Abdallah Sima, his first goal coming right before the break, earned Rangers a 2-0 triumph at Ibrox.
The Buddies battled throughout and Gers keeper Jack Butland was forced into a couple of smart saves to preserve his side’s clean sheet.
But it was the Light Blues who produced the attacking quality when they needed it most to ensure Saints returned back along the M8 empty-handed.
Boss Robinson said: “I think [the first goal] changes the mood in the stadium, obviously.
“I thought we frustrated them and the shape was excellent— we had a couple of half-chances ourselves.
“I thought we gained control at times and instead of hoofing the ball forward, we were able to buy some passes to come out the other side.
"We were too passive in the second half in terms of our press. Our 10s dropped a little deeper than we wanted them to and we never got close enough to put real pressure on them. But that happens when you come to Ibrox at times. Ultimately, in comparison to our performance against Ross County, it was a lot braver on the ball and there’s a lot we can improve on.
“I didn’t think Rangers troubled us in the first half and I thought we were very good without the ball. In the middle third we were composed.
“There were times when we could have stepped forward and been more aggressive with our press but it is difficult — I’ll never criticise the players for their effort and organisation. We were very, very good at times.
“You’ve got to play with a little bit of caution but we played with too much defensively and that’s a lesson we can learn.
“The second goal kills us as it’s one ball that splits the
New insights are still being unearthed after Netflix dumped the viewership data for nearly its entire catalog from the first half of 2023, which includes more than 18,000 titles.
NBCUniversal and the NFL said the Peacock Holiday Exclusive matchup between the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Chargers on Saturday will include the league’s first-ever commercial-free fourth quarter, promising “a groundbreaking fan experience” with a reduction in standard NFL ad load of over 40% resulting in more than 12 minutes of additional game-related content.
Cuckoo (above) from filmmaker Tilman Singer and Johan Renck’s Spaceman with Adam Sandler, a Netflix film for which a trailer just dropped.The seven films are as follows.Cuckooby Tilman Singer | with Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csókás, Jan Bluthardt Germany 2024Berlinale Special Gala | World premiereDostoevskij (Dostoevsky)by Damiano & Fabio D’Innocenzo | with Filippo Timi, Gabriel Montesi, Carlotta Gamba, Federico Vanni Italy 2024Berlinale Special | World premiere | SeriesSasquatch Sunsetby David & Nathan Zellner | with Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Nathan Zellner, Christophe Zajac-Denek USA 2024Berlinale Special | International premiereSeven Veilsby Atom Egoyan | with Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Ambur Braid, Michael Kupfer-Radecky Canada 2023Berlinale Special Gala | International premiereSpacemanby Johan Renck | with Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Kunal Nayyar, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Dano USA 2024Berlinale Special Gala | World premiereTreasureby Julia von Heinz | with Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry, Zbigniew Zamachowski Germany / France 2024Berlinale Special Gala | World premiereWu Suo Zhu (Abiding Nowhere)by Tsai Ming-liangTaiwan / USA 2024Berlinale Special | World premiere | Documentary FormArtistic Director Carlo Chatrian announced seven films in all for next year’s festival with the remaining line-up due in mid-January.“It is with special pleasure and pride that we welcome back directors who have presented their work at the festival in the past. Berlinale Special will be home for new films by Julia von Heinz (Treasure) and Tilman Singer (Cuckoo), both with projects involving American stars, for the irreverent comedy by the Zellner brothers (Sasquatch Sunset) and the dark
What We Do In The Shadows is set to end with its upcoming sixth season, it has been revealed.Per a report from Vulture, the show’s sixth season – which has yet to receive a release date – will mark the show’s final hurrah, as confirmed by additional reports from Deadline Hollywood and Variety.Last year, after the show was renewed for a fifth and sixth season, showrunners Stefani Robinson and Paul Simms addressed that the show’s end – which at the time had not been confirmed to conclude with season six – would deliver a resolution to Guillermo’s fate.“I think that it hinges on that,” Robinson said, about the vampires’ “bodyguard,” played by Harvey Guillen, who desperately wants to be a vampire — but also happens to be a vampire hunter.Based on the 2014 film of the same name from creators Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, What We Do In The Shadows follows the adventures of vampires Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) as they navigate the modern world with the help of their human familiar, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén).The gang were later joined by their vampire bureaucrat acquaintance, the Guide (Kristen Schaal). The show’s fifth season premiered earlier this year and concluded in late August.In related news, Taika Waititi suggested late last month that the second season of his pirate comedy drama, Our Flag Means Death, might be its last.
FX‘s What We Do in the Shadows will end with its sixth season, Deadline has confirmed.
December is the most popular month for charitable giving by Americans – accounting for about a third of all donations made per year. Call it the spirit of the holidays, repeated viewings of A Christmas Carol, or a rush to get in tax-deductible gifts before the calendar year runs out.
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “There are really only two things that can turn a bad day into a great one: The first is love. But to be honest, that’s not for today. My third wife just dumped me.
Stephen Mulhern, one of the UK's most adored and respected TV presenters, has a lavish home life in London.The Deal or No Deal star started his career in children's entertainment programmes and gradually rose to become one of the country's top comedians. He made a big name for himself on shows like Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and Catchphrase, becoming a household name and forming close friendships with some of the biggest names in showbiz.
David Benedict “We need something a little theatrical.” Boy, does excited Bob Newby (Christopher Buckley) get his wish. He’s trying to solve a staging problem in “The Dark of the Moon,” the school play he and the other kids are secretly putting on in Hawkins, Ind., in 1959. But audiences watching “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” will likely greet the line with a wry smile because immense, intense theatricality is there for all to see.
the streamer’s freshman attempt at a stage play is a huge, insufferable embarrassment.Mega-fans of the TV series, like me, will be extremely disappointed by how the live show, which opened Thursday night at the Phoenix Theatre in London, epically fails to conjure the magic and small-town charm of the Duffer brothers’ popular creation. Three hours, plus an intermission.
EXCLUSIVE: The Stranger Things stage show, an unbelievably brilliant new blueprint for theatricality that premieres in London’s West End tonight, will be the first instalment in a trilogy exploring the dark underbelly of Hawkins, Indiana.
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Adam Sherman (This Game’s Called Murder) has set the cast for his newest indie feature, the horror comedy Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Dichen Lachman (Severance) lead the ensemble, which also includes Stephen Dorff (Blade), Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Lochlyn Munro (Peacemaker), India Eisley (I Am the Night), Sarah Dumont (Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Mark Boone Jr. (Sons of Anarchy), Tom Berenger (Platoon), Timothy V. Murphy (The Fabulous Four), Sherman Augustus (Strangers Things) and Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious franchise).
Connie Boss Alexander, the mother of the late Stephen “tWitch” Boss, is taking a moment to honor the memory of her beloved son. This comes on the first anniversary of his passing, as she reflects on the life and legacy of her son, who was loved and admired by many.“A year ago today,” she captioned the post, “You sent your last I love you’s, your final check-ins and closed your eyes in this earthly realm and awoke with all the ancestors in the presence of God.”“My first born [sic], my first heartbeat,” Connie continued.
Netflix has released a report of the platform’s most-watched shows and movies from the first half of 2023.In a press release on Tuesday (December 12), the company announced it would publish a new report twice a year to show what people viewed over a six month period. The first ‘What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report’ spans viewing figures from January to June 2023.The comprehensive report covers over 18,000 titles and represents 99 per cent of all viewing on Netflix, amounting to nearly 100 billion hours viewed.While the shows and movies are ranked based on total hours viewed, Netflix notes that success on the platform “is not determined by hours viewed alone” – with the size of the audience relative to the budget also cited as a factor.The Night Agent came out on top in the rankings, racking up over 812million hours globally.
Anyone But You.The actor stars opposite Sydney Sweeney in the upcoming romantic comedy, directed by Will Gluck (Easy A, Friends With Benefits). In a scene shown in the trailer, Sweeney’s character Bea pulls out a spider from inside Ben’s (Powell) shorts at the top of a cliff, leading him to strip naked in a frightened panic.Speaking about the scene at the film’s premiere in New York on Monday (December 11), Powell said it presented more of a safety risk than you’d expect.“You just have to grip it and rip it on a scene like that,” Powell told Variety.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have officially announced that Shohei Ohtani has been signed to a 10-year contract with the team.
Netflix’s Stranger Things debuted in London’s West End this year – check out below for information on how to get tickets.Previews for Stranger Things: The First Shadow began in November at London’s Phoenix Theatre, with the show set to run officially from December until August 25, 2024.Set in Hawkins in 1959, the show serves as a prequel to the Netflix series and follows young versions of Jim Hopper, Bob Newby, Joyce Maldonado and Henry Creel, who later becomes Vecna.The play is directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Reader), from an original story by Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers, Jack Thorne and Kate Trefry.Tickets for all shows at the Phoenix Theatre until August 25, 2024 are available to be purchased here. Prices range from £20-£225 depending on your seat.Alternatively, there’s a lottery each week via app TodayTix where you can win up to two tickets, which could be placed on the front row, priced at £19.59.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith television series starring Donald Glover has arrived – watch it below.The new series, which will stream on Prime Video from February 2, also stars Maya Erskine and the two operate as an undercover married couple while working for a mysterious spy agency.The show is a reboot of the 2005 action film starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and was created by Glover with Atlanta writer Francesca Sloane.Others appearing in the series include Paul Dano, Parker Posey, Wagner Moura, John Turturro, Ron Pearlman, Michaela Coel, Eiza Gonzalez, Alexander Skarsgard, Sharon Horgan and Sarah Paulson.Previously, the series shared a short teaser trailer as part of Prime Day.
Fans know her best as the acid-tongued presenter of the Weakest Link, but BBC star Anne Robinson has revealed a glimpse at her softer side after it emerged she had been secretly dating Queen Camilla ’s ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles.The former WatchDog presenter, 79 has been quietly dating the retired Army brigadier, 83 for over a year, with Andrew’s ex-wife Camilla believed to be supportive of the blossoming romance between the pair. A friend of the duo, told The Sun, “They have judiciously avoided being photographed together as they both wanted to keep this quiet for as long as possible.” According to the pal, Anne also “loves to joke she’s ‘new money’ — despite the fact she went to boarding school, her father got a double first and she holidayed for part of the summer at The Carlton in Cannes, when not working behind her mother’s stall.” The couple were originally set up by a mutual friend, and Andrew has become a regular fixture at Anne’s own dinner parties, which she regularly hosts at her sprawling 17th-century barn in the Cotswolds.
wrote on Threads Sunday. On Monday, CBS confirmed that Colbert’s time slots would be filled with several repeat shows. According to Deadline, Colbert was supposed to interview Sarah Paulson, Jason Isbell, Mark Ruffalo, Nicki Minaj, Sara Bareilles and Rep.