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Casting for Netflix's reality competition series Squid Game: The Challenge was a unique challenge: finding 456 diverse and international lead characters. Casting director Erika Dobrin described the gargantuan task by saying, "I don't think that's ever quite been done before on the scale it was done…

Baby Reindeer has taken the world by storm. The Netflix drama about a stalker and her victim has been viewed more than 13 million times since its launch a fortnight ago, sitting at number one on the streamer's chart in more than 30 countries including the UK and US. This has inevitably prompted much…

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the entirety of Season 1 of Dead Boy Detectives. As it turns out, even ghosts have problems. Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives, an adaptation of the comics by Neil Gaiman, follows two mischievous teenage ghosts who have not crossed over into any…

Good afternoon Insiders, Jesse Whittock back again.  Lots to take you through from around the world this week, buckle up. Baby Reign-deer Richard Gadd in Baby Reindeer Netflix Crown of antlers: Baby Reindeer…

There will likely be some new faces on the Nielsen streaming lists going forward, thanks to a change in the company’s measurements — including The Resident, which crept up to No. 2 during the week of March 25 to 31. The series racked up nearly 1.5B minutes viewed across Hulu and Netflix, though that…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s new feature Boss Dan Lin has tapped former DreamWorks Animation and Coyote Vs. Acme producer Chris deFaria to consult for the streamer’s animation department, we hear on very good authority. Lin and deFaria worked together on the mega success of The Lego Movie when the duo were…

Universal Pictures will release DreamWorks Animation’s Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie on September 26, 2025, the studio said Thursday. Universal already had the release date on hold for an untitled DWA movie. Late September is a prime time to launch family friendly animated pics, going back to Open…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix just boarded a buzzy one. The streamer has joined The Thursday Murder Club, the Chris Columbus-directed feature adaptation of Richard Osman's bestselling 2020 novel. Just days after casting on the flick was confirmed with Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley in lead roles…

Leanne Morgan’s current tour is called Just Getting Started, and the 58-year-old comedian is living up to that with a comedy series and two more specials at Netflix. The streamer has given a 16-episode order to an untitled multi-cam sitcom, headlined by Morgan in her TV acting debut and executive produced…

Netflix has expanded the Season 2 cast for To All The Boys spinoff series XO, Kitty, as production gets underway in Seoul. (You can watch a start of production clip below). Audrey Huynh (ANZBBGRL, Wyrm) has joined as a new series regular, and Sasha Bhasin (Brave the Dark) and Joshua Lee (Gangnam Project)…

Baby Reindeer has burnished its status as a surprise Netflix hit by piling on viewers in its second week on the streaming service. Episode 1 of Richard Gadd's lightly fictionalized stalker story was watched by 3M viewers over the past seven days, according to official Barb figures supplied by…

Netflix’s Heartstopper has added three to its Season 3 cast including Jonathan Bailey (Fellow Travelers, Bridgerton), Hayley Atwell (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Captain America: The First Avenger) and Eddie Marsan (Back to Black, Ray Donovan). The show returns with 8 new episodes in…