 Netflix put its 165,000 square-foot headquarters in Los Gatos, California, up for sublease. The company is apparently also seeking to sublease 180,000 square feet of unused office space in Los Angeles. More: - The real estate listings do not include the price of the space.
- This property is located on Winchester Circle; Netflix has a separate headquarters in Los Gatos, on Albright Way, that will be unimpacted.
- Netflix stock has crashed by about 60% this year after the streamer announced that its total subscriber count had dropped for the first time in over a decade.
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 "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Through a new deal with Paramount Global, Walmart will offer free Paramount+ subscriptions to all members of its Walmart+ loyalty program. The deal includes the Paramount+ Essential plan, which includes ads, and typically costs $4.99/month. More: - The "Essential" plan also provides access to NFL and UEFA Champions League games, but not content from local CBS stations; that's only available for Paramount Premium subscribers at $9.99/month.
- Walmart+ launched in September 2020 and costs $12.95 per month or $98 for a year.
- The Walmart program also offers gas discounts, deals from Spotify, and same-day delivery on most Walmart products; it's intended as a rival for Amazon's Prime.
- As of Q2 2022, Paramount+ has around 43.3 million paid subscribers.
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DAILY CALENDAR TUESDAY, AUGUST 16 UNTOLD: THE GIRLFRIEND WHO DIDN'T EXIST: The "Untold" docuseries anthology -- featuring "epic tales" from the world of sports and athletics -- returns this week with Volume 2. First up: a two-part look back at the story of Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman Trophy finalist Manti Te'o, who was apparently catfished online and led to believe he'd been involved in serious relationship with a woman who later died. [Netflix] HOTTIES: Hybrid of reality dating and cooking competition series, in which singles go on blind dates, prepare meals for one another, and then taste-test extremely spicy foods together. The complete first season hits Hulu today. [Hulu]
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Fox Nation -- the news-focused streaming service from the Fox News network -- will soon add original scripted films to its programming line-up. The first Fox Nation original film is "The Shell Collector," based on a novel by Nancy Naigle; the film premieres on September 1. More: - The film centers on a widow named Amanda Whittier, who restarts her life in a small seaside town following the death of her husband.
- The film is the first of four original dramas Fox Nation will roll out this year.
- The streamer has also licensed a selection of Clint Eastwood films from Warner Bros. and will produce travel and history docuseries from producers Kevin Costner and Kelsey Grammer.
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 Vanity Fair got an early look at the Addams Family from Tim Burton's upcoming Netflix mystery series "Wednesday." Jenna Ortega stars as Wednesday Addams, who leaves home to attend the Nevermore Academy boarding school for outcasts. More: - The series also features Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzmán as Gomez, and Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams.
- Filmmaker Tim Burton produced the series and directed four out of the eight episodes.
- The show was created by "Smallville" vets Miles Millar and Alfred Gough; it's of course based on the iconic cartoons by artist Charles Addams that first appeared in The New Yorker.
- The film features costumes from Burton's long-time collaborator (and four-time Oscar winner) Colleen Atwood.
- "Wednesday" hits Netflix this fall.
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 Nielsen signed a three-year deal with Amazon to measure the audience of Prime Video's "Thursday Night Football" streams. Specifically, Nielsen will compare the Prime Video streams with conventional TV NFL broadcasts, to try and get a sense for the games' total audience size (including individuals watching outside of their homes, in locations such as bars or hotels). More: - According to Nielsen, this marks the first time that a streaming service has worked with the company to measure a live viewing audience.
- The move comes at a time when conventional broadcasters have cast doubt on Nielsen's methodology and have been encouraging advertisers to consider new approaches to audience measurement.
- Amazon hopes to charge ad rates for its "Thursday Night Football" games that are comparable with broadcast TV spots; Fox previously held the broadcast rights to these games.
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 The "John Wick" spinoff series "The Continental," originally in development at Starz, will stream on NBCUniversal's Peacock platform. The three-part event series was first announced more than four years ago. More: - Colin Woodell stars as a young version of Winston Scott, the character played by Ian McShane in the "Wick" films; the story follows his arrival in the New York underworld in 1975.
- Lionsgate, which owns Starz, produces the "Wick" film franchise.
- Starz has shifted its approach over the past few years, making the series a better fit for Peacock.
- "The Continental" will hit Peacock in 2023.
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 Bob Chapek In an open letter sent to Disney CEO Bob Chapek on Monday, Third Point activist investor Daniel Loeb suggested that the company purchase back its stake in Hulu from Comcast prior to the 2024 deadline. Loeb further feels that ESPN and the ESPN+ streaming service should be spun off to reduce the company's overall debt load. More: - Loeb argues that integrating Hulu directly into Disney+ would "reignite growth in the domestic market."
- He also feels that ESPN could expand further into the sports betting industry if it were able to operate independently of Disney.
- Chapek did address the possibility of integrating sports betting into ESPN during Disney's last earnings call.
- The letter expressed confidence in Chapek and Disney's "current trajectory" and expressed a desire to work "directly and constructively" with the management team.
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 Princess Diana, Prince William, Prince Charles The makers of the HBO docuseries "The Princess" defended their decision to include clips from an infamous and widely-discredited 1995 interview with Princess Diana, taken from the BBC series "Panorama." In 2021, Diana's son Prince William said that he felt the media should decline from ever again broadcasting the segment, which was allegedly produced by journalist Martin Bashir using misleading and manipulative tactics. More: - During the 1995 interview, Diana spoke about her unhappiness in her marriage, her experiences within the royal family, and her thoughts on whether or not Prince Charles would ever become King.
- A representative for "The Princess" responded that archival footage is shown throughout the film "without commentary from today" and the interview was featured "as a moment of historical record."
- Prince William spoke out against the footage following a formal inquiry in 2021, arguing that it was produced in a deceptive and incompetent way, and "made lurid and false claims about the Royal Family" that played into Diana's "fears and fuelled paranoia."
- Last month, the BBC's director-general Tim Davie formally apologized to Prince Charles and Prince Harry for the interview.
- "The Princess" is now streaming on HBO Max in the US.
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- Amazon will debut the first two episodes of the "Lord of the Rings" series "The Rings of Power" on September 2, switching to a one-episode-per-week release schedule for the remaining six episodes.
- Netflix released a trailer for the thriller "End of the Road," starring Queen Latifah as a widow who crosses paths with a mysterious killer during a road trip with her kids; the film arrives on September 9.
- The period drama-thriller series "Shantaram" -- based on the epic novel by Gregory David Roberts -- comes to Apple TV+ on October 14; Charlie Hunnam stars as a prison escapee from Australia who reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums of '80s Bombay.
- Jimmy Fallon's "The Tonight Show" is officially the first late-night series to reach 30 million subscribers on YouTube.
- The new Disney+ animated musical series "Firebuds" will feature the voices of Padma Lakshmi, Melissa Rauch, Oscar Nuñez, José Andres, Pamela Adlon, and "Weird Al" Yankovic; the series, from "Elena of Avalor" creator Craig Gerber, arrives on September 21.
- Amazon's scripted anthology series "Modern Love," based on the New York Times relationship column, will be remade in the Netherlands for a Dutch-language audience; "Modern Love Amsterdam," the show's first international spin-off, debuts this winter.
- On Quartz, writer Adario Strange suggests that Snapchat could grow its new subscription service, Snapchat+, by expanding its line-up of scripted and non-fiction "Snap Originals."
- YouTube star Emma Chamberlain's coffee company, Chamberlain Coffee, closed a $7 million Series A funding round to develop new products and expand its retail footprint; investors include LifeAid Beverage director Nik Sharma, VIta Coco board member Ken Sadowsky, and venture studio Blazar Capital.
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 |  | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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