Twitch bans gambling streams / "House of the Dragon" views / "Axel Foley" casting / Crunchyroll anti-union allegations

Plus today's calendar, Netflix's latest ad push, Peacock orders "In the Know," Ringwald joins "Feud," and more

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Sliker from Twitch Amazon's Twitch announced a ban on livestreams featuring creators playing games of chance -- such as slots, roulette, or dice games -- on unlicensed gambling sites. The ban goes into effect on October 18. More: The ban was widely seen as a reaction to revelations by UK-based streamer ItsSliker, who disclosed that he'd been accepting money from other Twitch personalities to fuel his secret gambling addiction. The new rules will block popular sites including Stake.com, Rollbit.com, Roobet.com, and Duelbits.com. Twitch will continue to allow streams focused on poker, sports betting and fantasy sports. THE GUARDIAN

According to Variety, viewership on HBO's "House of the Dragon" grew by about 3% from Episode 4 to Episode 5. The show now averages around 29 million viewers per episode across all platforms. More: At its peak in Season 8, "Game of Thrones" drew around 44 million viewers per episode. Variety's estimate includes both Nielsen's measurements of the show's airings on cable, combined with streaming viewership across HBO's platforms; HBO has not released specific viewership numbers on recent "House of the Dragon" episodes. The premiere episode of "House of the Dragon" was viewed by nearly 10 million people across all platforms, a new record for an HBO series debut. VARIETY

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DAILY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 ANDOR: Debut "Star Wars" series centering on the exploits of thief-turned-Rebel spy Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) in the five year period before the events of "Rogue One." Genevieve O'Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, and Fiona Shaw co-star; "Rogue One" writer Tony Gilroy created the series and serves as showrunner. The first three episodes debut on Disney+ today; Disney has already ordered a second season. [Disney+] SUPER/NATURAL: National Geographic nature series using cutting-edge filmmaking innovations to explore unique abilities and perspectives possessed by members of the animal kingdom that work beyond the parameters of human perception. (For example, seeing flowers from the POV of bees, or discovering squirrels that can glow in the dark.) James Cameron executive produced the series; Benedict Cumberbatch narrates. [Disney+] WICKED TUNA: OUTER BANKS: The National Geographic reality series centers on a group of commercial tuna fishermen based in the Outer Banks, off the coast of North Carolina. Season 8 episodes premiere on Disney+ today. [Disney+] FIREBUDS: Debut animated series from Disney Junior about a group of kids who serve as first responders along with a team of talking vehicles. Season 1 debuts on cable and Disney+ on Wednesday. [Disney+] SURVIVOR: The iconic reality competition series returns Wednesday night to CBS and Paramount+ for a 43rd season. The new episodes were recorded earlier this summer in Fiji under a condensed schedule, due to the COVID pandemic. Paralympian Noelle Lambert is among this year's competitors. Jeff Probst hosts. [Paramount+] THE AMAZING RACE: The CBS reality competition series -- in which teams of two race around the world for a shot at a $1 million grand prize -- is back for a 34th season tonight on both broadcast TV and Paramount+. Phil Keoghan hosts. [Paramount+] ESCAPE FROM KABUL: Documentary feature from filmmaker Jamie Roberts ("Four Hours at the Capitol"), filmed over 18 days as the US military withdrew from Afghanistan's Kabul International Airport in late summer 2021, effectively closing out America's two-decade war against the Taliban. The film features eyewitness accounts from Afghan citizens, US Marines, and members of the Taliban. [HBO Max] MEET CUTE: Romantic comedy feature starring Kaley Cuoco as a single New Yorker who discovers a time machine in a nail salon, and uses it to repeatedly go back and improve her first date from the previous evening. Pete Davidson co-stars; Alex Lehmann ("Paddleton") directed. [Peacock] SHADOWLAND: Six-part docuseries, inspired by a group of articles published in The Atlantic, examining the increasing popularity of conspiracy theories among the American public, and the dangers they potentially pose to the nation's democracy. Joe Berlinger ("Conversations with a Killer," "Crime Scene") executive produced. [Peacock] LA FÓRMULA: Brazilian romantic comedy series starring Drica Moraes as a scientist who invents an elixir of youth and tests it on herself, leading to all manner of mix-ups and complications. The series was acquired by Telemundo and will stream in the Tplus section of Peacock; all eight episodes arrive today. [Peacock] THE REAL BLING RING: HOLLYWOOD HEIST: Three-episode true-crime docuseries about a notorious group of young thieves operating out of Calabasas, California, between 2008 and 2009. The group famously stole around $3 million in cash and property, including items from socialite Paris Hilton, and were the subject of a 2013 scripted film from writer/director Sofia Coppola. The series features insights from members of the group as well as their victims. [Netflix] DESIGNING MIAMI: Debut reality series centering on Eilyn and Ray Jimenez, a married couple who also run competing South Florida interior design and remodeling firms. Eilyn is the founder and creative director of Sire Design; while Ray runs the design house Raymond Nicolas. [Netflix] IRON CHEF MÉXICO: Mexican remake of the culinary competition series, in which up-and-comers will challenge one of three iconic Mexican masters in the hopes of being crowned Legendary Chef and winning the mythical Katana. Mexico's Iron Chefs include Roberto Solis, Gabriela Ruiz, and Francisco Ruano. Paty Cantu hosts, while Mark Dacascos will reprise his role as The Chairman. [Netflix] THE PERFUMIER (DER PARFUMEUR): German crime thriller from co-writer/director Nils Willbrandt ("Shades of Guilt") tracking the unlikely collaboration between a heartsick police detective and a perfume maker who employs questionable methods. Robert Finster, Emilia Schüle, Anne Müller, and August Diehl co-star. [Netflix] FORTUNE SELLER: A TV SCAM (WANNA MARCHI): True-crime docuseries from Italy charting the rise and fall of the country's "infomercial queen" Wanna Marchi, who was at the center of a TV shopping empire before being convicted of "aggravated fraud" along with her daughter and co-conspirator Stefania Nobile in 2006. [Netflix] THE RESIDENT: The Fox medical drama series returned to TV on Tuesday night for a sixth season; new episodes come to Hulu on Wednesdays. Matt Czuchry stars as Dr. Conrad Hawkins, the chief resident at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. The cast also includes Manish Dayal, Bruce Greenwood, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Glenn Morshower, and Jane Leeves. [Hulu] PRISMA: Coming-of-age drama series from Italy about identical twin brothers Andrea and Marco (both played by Mattia Carrano), who find themselves developing into very different people with different approaches to life as they get older. "SKAM Italia" vets Ludovico Bessegato and Alice Urciuolo co-created. [Amazon]

A number of "Beverly Hills Cop" franchise actors will return for Netflix's new revival film, "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley." Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Paul Reiser, and Bronson Pinchot will all join star Eddie Murphy in the action-comedy sequel. More: Australian commercial director Mark Molloy makes his feature debut with the film; he replaced Adil El Arbi and Bilal Fallah, who departed the project to focus on Warner's now-canceled "Batgirl." Original producer Jerry Bruckheimer is back, and will co-produce alongside Murphy. A fourth "Beverly Hills Cop" film was originally developed at Paramount before being removed from the schedule in 2016, and eventually jumping to Netflix. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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In a new video posted to YouTube and Twitter, English-language anime voice actor Kyle McCarley claims that Crunchyroll declined to bring him back for the third season of "Mob Psycho 100" because of his desire to work under a union contract. McCarley voices Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama in the series, which streams on Sony's Crunchyroll service in the US. More: Season 3 of "Mob Psycho 100" is scheduled to debut on Crunchyroll on October 5. McCarley specified that his negotiations with Crunchyroll had broken down specifically because he wanted a union contract, not because of financial terms or compensation. In a statement, Crunchyroll confirmed its intention to "recast some roles" for the "Mob Psycho 100" English dub, but blamed the technical requirements of its Dallas studios' "SimulDub" system. POLYGON

Alex Weprin in The Hollywood Reporter noticed some similarities between Netflix's new ad push and its first experiment with advertising, back in 2005. When it still mailed DVDs to customers, Netflix included ads which were printed on slips and included within its envelopes. More: Netflix dissolved its ad sales team from the DVD era when it pivoted to streaming. The company is now collaborating with Microsoft on a lower-cost ad-supported subscription tier for its streaming service. As with its classic print ad sales, Netflix is still asking for notably high CPMs (the cost to reach 1,000 viewers) with minimal ability for sponsors to target and track their ads across the system. In both instances, brands will likely pay what Netflix demands in order to draft off the company's massive popularity and "halo effect." HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Judge and Woods Peacock ordered a first season for the stop-motion animated series "In the Know" from former "Silicon Valley" collaborators Mike Judge and Zach Woods. The series will find fictional NPR host Lauren Caspian -- a puppet -- interviewing real human guests. More: Lauren and his NPR co-workers will all be played by puppets. Judge co-created "Silicon Valley" while Woods co-starred as Jared Dunn. Judge is also notable for creating the animated series "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill"; he's producing "In the Know" through his company, Bandera Entertainment. Judge and Woods will both provide voices for the series. DEADLINE

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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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