| Hello again and thanks for opening today's Inside Streaming! I went to see The Magnetic Fields play last night in Downtown LA. It was a great show, in which they revisited the first disc from their epic 1999 three-volume concept album "69 Love Songs." During intermission, I went to grab a drink and noticed Wes the PA from Netflix's "Nailed It!" by the bar. I sort of assumed I was the only one who would recognize this supporting player from a humorous streaming reality baking competition series, and tried to play it cool. But by the end of intermission, Wes was fending off fans left and right, and I saw him again after the show taking photos with people. I'm not sure if this reflects on the massive popularity of tons of random Netflix content, to the point that even supporting "Nailed It!" players get swarmed in public, or if it says something about The Magnetic Fields and unscripted Netflix content sharing a demographic. But it did kind of surprise me nonetheless, especially in LA, where people are sometimes hesitant to approach celebrities in public. Enjoy today's issue! Lon
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| 1 | | British sports-centric streamer DAZN will produce a collection of free ad-supported streaming channels for Tubi. The new channels will feature live and recorded women's soccer matches, along with boxing and MMA coverage. More: - The channels include DAZN Ringside, featuring boxing and MMA matches, including archive editions of World Title fights; and The DAZN Women's Football Fast Channel.
- The Women's Football channel features matches from various global tournaments, including the UEFA Women's Champions League and the Saudi Women's Premier League.
- The channels will stream on Tubi in both Canada and the US.
- Tubi also has free ad-supported channels dedicated to the NFL, MLB, PGA, and NHL, along with a general channel from Fox Sports and another dedicated to women's sports.
- DAZN is pronounced "Da Zone."
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| 2 | | Tech startup Diddo raised $2.8 million in seed funding for a new AI-powered "shoppable video" system for streamers. The company developed an API that automatically identifies products in TV shows and films, then locates and displays comparable items available for sale. More: - Co-founders Rishi Nair and Ryan Sullivan were inspired the develop the API by their mothers, "Selling Sunset" fans who were curious about how their favorite stars dressed.
- The funding round was led by Link Ventures; the funds will support the product's development and allow the founders to expand their team.
- So far, Diddo has agreements with 12 companies, including DailyMotion, the Highlights app, and the social sports platform PlayersOnly.
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| 3 | | DAILY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 ANYONE BUT YOU: 2023 romantic comedy feature, loosely inspired by Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," from co-writer/director Will Gluck ("Easy A"). Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell co-star as hated rivals who pose as a couple after being unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding. Alexandra Shipp, GaTa, Hadley Robinson, Michelle Hurd, and Dermot Mulroney co-star. [Netflix] TLC FOREVER: 2023 documentary special produced for the Lifetime network, looking back at the history and legacy of the trailblazing '90s R&B girl group. [Netflix] DELIVER ME (I DINA HÄNDER): Debut crime drama series from Sweden, based on a novel by Malin Persson Giolito, about a murder case involving two teenagers and the questions that arise about who bears true responsibility. Yasir Hassan, Olle Strand, Yusra Warsama, Ane Dahl Torp, and Henrik Norlén co-star. [Netflix] THE BIG DOOR PRIZE: Comedy series, based on the book by M.O. Walsh, about a machine that appears in a small town grocery store with the apparent power to determine anyone's "Life Potential." Chris O'Dowd, Gabrielle Dennis, Patrick Kerr, and Damon Gupton co-star. It's back for a second season. [Apple TV+] TALKING SABOR: Debut culinary docuseries in which "Chopped" and "MasterChef" vet Aarón Sánchez visits 16 Latino-owned restaurants across the US along with a line-up of special guests. Together, they design a collaborative menu highlighting Latino flavors. [Hulu] WONDERFUL WORLD: Debut revenge-thriller series from Korea, about a respected author and professor (Kim Nam-joo) who descends into a life of crime after her son is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Cha Eun-woo, Kim Kang-woo, and Im Se-mi co-star. [Hulu] VEGAS: THE STORY OF SIN CITY: Four-episode docuseries from CNN looking back at the cultural, political, and social history of Las Vegas, Nevada, from the perspectives of civic leaders, entertainers, entrepreneurs, and of course, mobsters. The series aired earlier this year on cable and hits Max today. [Max] MARVEL'S SPIDEY AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS: Animated series from Disney Junior following the kid superhero team of Peter Parker (Spidey), Miles Morales (Spin), and Gwen Stacy (Ghost-Spider). Five new Season 3 episodes hit Disney+ in the US today. [Disney+] HOW DID THEY FIX THAT? Educational series from Smithsonian Channel in which host Mike Davidson investigations how the world's toughest engineering problems are resolved, with insights from the workers and experts who tackle these difficult jobs. The first two seasons hit Paramount+ today. [Paramount+] | | | |
| 4 | | Actor Callum Turner grabbed the lead role in Apple's upcoming series adaptation of the William Gibson novel "Neuromancer." Turner will star as a super-hacker named Case, who finds himself in the center of a digital conspiracy involving a powerful artificial intelligence. More: - The novel is set in a dystopian near-future and is considered an influential work in the "cyberpunk" sci-fi subgenre.
- Turner previously co-starred with Austin Butler in the Apple TV+ WWII series "Masters of the Air."
- He has also appeared in the "Fantastic Beasts" films and director George Clooney's 2023 sports drama "The Boys in the Boat."
- Gibson will executive produce the series along with showrunners and co-creators Graham Roland ("Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan") and J.D. Dillard ("Sleight").
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| 5 | | Apple released a trailer for the 6-episode limited historical drama series "The Big Cigar." The series is based on an article by Joshuah Bearman, about Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton's daring escape from an FBI manhunt in the mid-1970s. More: - André Holland ("Moonlight") stars as Newton; Alessandro Nivola co-stars as film producer Bert Schneider, who helped Newton evade federal agents and escape to Cuba.
- Tiffany Boone, PJ Byrne, Moses Ingram, and Glynn Turman co-star; actor Don Cheadle directed the first two episodes.
- "Claws" vet Janine Sherman Barrois serves as showrunner and executive producer.
- Journalist Bearman previously contributed to the documentary "King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters," and also wrote the 2007 Wired article that inspired the Oscar-winning film "Argo."
- "The Big Cigar" hits Apple TV+ on May 17.
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| 6 | | Thandiwe Newton joined the cast of Netflix's "Wednesday" ahead of the show's second season. She's the second high-profile recent addition to the "Wednesday" cast, along with Steve Buscemi. More: - Buscemi is likely playing the new dean of Nevermore Academy; Newton's role has not yet been revealed.
- Newton received three Emmy nominations, and won one trophy, for her supporting role on HBO's "Westworld."
- She's also a regular voice actor on Netflix's animated comedies "Big Mouth" and "Human Resources."
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| 7 | | Disney unveiled a trailer for the French-language biographical drama series "Becoming Karl Lagerfeld." Daniel Brühl stars as the famed German fashion designer. More: - The series -- based on the Raphaëlle Bacqué biography "Kaiser Karl" -- tracks Lagerfeld's rise in the 1970s European fashion industry, and primarily takes place in Paris, Monaco, and Rome.
- It was developed by French film and TV studio Gaumont, which also developed "Hannibal" for NBC and "Lupin" for Netflix.
- The series made its world premiere at the Canneseries festival, where it was warmly received by critics and attendees.
- "Becoming Karl Lagerfeld" streams on Hulu in the US, starting on June 7.
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| 8 | | QUICK HITS - A new FAST channel called PBS Retro, featuring classic kids series like "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," "Thomas and Friends," and "Reading Rainbow," is now streaming on Roku.
- "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" vet Joe Tracz joined Netflix's live-action anime adaptation "One Piece" as a writer, executive producer, and co-showrunner ahead of its second season.
- Disney+ dropped a trailer for "Jim Henson Idea Man," a new documentary profile of the iconic puppeteer and Muppets creator from filmmaker Ron Howard; the film debuts on May 31.
- In the new Instagram chat show "Grave Conversations," host David Dastmalchian shares deep, probing discussions with guests while they both lie in open coffins.
- Season 2 of Apple's sci-fi hit "Severance" has completed production; no release date has yet been announced.
- Paramount+ renewed the animated preschool series "Dora," a reboot of Nickelodeon's "Dora the Explorer," for a second season.
- Season 3 of the "Letterkenny" spinoff "Shoresy" debuts on May 24 on the Canadian streamer Crave, then lands on Hulu in the US on June 21.
- Actor Luke Kleintank, who co-stars as Scott Forrester on "FBI: International," announced his exit from the series after three seasons.
- Hasbro introduced a new version of the Monopoly board game themed after characters and locations from HBO's "House of the Dragon."
- Warner Bros. Discovery unveilved its line-up of kids and family content for South Asia, much of which will debut on its Indian cable and satellite TV network, Pogo.
- Zach and Tori Roloff will exit the TLC reality series "Little People, Big World"; 33-year-old Zach, the son of couple Amy and Matt Roloff, has appeared on the show since its inception in 2006.
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 | Writer | | 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." | | This newsletter was edited by Lon Harris | |
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