Netflix's Anne With an E, the adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, grabbed a field-leading 13 nominations for the 2018 Canadian Screen Awards on Tuesday.And Sadaf Forughi's Ava, a coming-of-age drama set in Iran and Kathleen Hepburn's Never Steady, Never Still, which stars Happy Valley star Shirley Henderson, lead all-comers in the film field, with eight nominations each. The contenders for Canada's national media awards were unveiled at a press conference in Toronto.Anne With an E, which is produced out of Canada and airs on the CBC here, will compete for best TV drama against Lifetime's Mary Kills People, History's Vikings, from showrunner and creator Michael Hirst, and WGN America's Pure. Anne With an E hails from Emmy-winning writer Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad) and is based on the famed book by Lucy Maud Montgomery.The Billy Campbell and Karine Vanasse-starring Cardinal, a Hulu murder mystery drama, grabbed 12 nominations in the TV competition, as did the CBC comedy Kim's … [Read more...] about Canadian Screen Awards: Netflix’s ‘Anne With an E’ Leads Nominations
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Barack Obama on U.S. in David Letterman’s Netflix Debut: “We Don’t Share a Common Baseline of the Facts”
In his first appearance as a late-night host since 2015, David Letterman picked a conversation partner whose return to the small screen could overshadow even his own — former president Barack Obama. In the first episode of Letterman's new, monthly talk show on Netflix, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, released early Friday morning, the former host of NBC's Late Night and CBS' Late Show sat down with the 44th U.S. president for Obama's first talk-show appearance since leaving the Oval Office. Over the course of the hour-long conversation, the pair discussed Obama's life after presidency, the state of facts in America and moving Malia Obama into college — all while never mentioning current president Donald Trump by name, but alluding to him nevertheless. Kicking off the program was a clip from the May 4, 2015 episode of Late Night, the last time Obama and Letterman sat down for a televised conversation. In the clip, the 44th president … [Read more...] about Barack Obama on U.S. in David Letterman’s Netflix Debut: “We Don’t Share a Common Baseline of the Facts”
Netflix Releases Preview of Obama Talking to Letterman About His Dancing ‘Dad Moves’
You may have heard that David Letterman is coming back and he’s bringing former President Barack Obama with him.Obama will be the first guest on Letterman’s new Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, and in the preview released by Netflix today, the two men talk about “dad moves.”The former president self-deprecatingly talks about his dancing “dad moves” in sharing an anecdote involving Prince, explaining how he has to be careful to “stay in the pocket” instead of pushing it a little too much.Obama has not given that many interviews in the year since his presidency ended, so presumably their discussion will also include at least a mention of his take on the last year in politics.You can watch the clip above. Letterman’s Netflix series debuts Friday, January 12th.[image via screengrab]— — Follow Josh Feldman on Twitter: @feldmaniac Have a tip we should know? … [Read more...] about Netflix Releases Preview of Obama Talking to Letterman About His Dancing ‘Dad Moves’
I Was Ousted From Netflix for a Comment on a Soccer Field: An Executive’s Mea Culpa (Guest Column)
I always tell my daughters that words have power. And last month — on the sideline of a kids' soccer game — I got a brutal reminder of just how much they do.Soccer is a family affair: I coach our 9-year-old's team. My wife, Lilly, coaches our 7-year-old, and our 4-year-old is the No. 1 fan. On the weekend of Dec. 3, I took a flight home after a business trip to coach my oldest daughter's playoff game.Just as the game was starting and I was making sure the girls knew their positions, a woman I didn't know approached me and asked if I worked at Netflix. She then inquired about The Ranch, a show that I had nothing to do with — I was director of kids and family content. At first, I assumed she was another soccer parent wanting to discuss a show she either liked or disliked. For Netflix employees, this is common. However, the conversation turned when she asked why Netflix hadn't canceled the show after one of the actors, Danny Masterson, had been accused of sexual assault. … [Read more...] about I Was Ousted From Netflix for a Comment on a Soccer Field: An Executive’s Mea Culpa (Guest Column)
Netflix pulls ahead of BBC iPlayer in UK
The scale of the challenge to the BBC from Netflix has been laid bare after an intense on-demand battle over the Christmas period (reports Broadcast).Freesat data, seen by Broadcast, offers a rare glimpse into the performance of the secretive premium subscription service when compared with the largest on-demand PSB platform.It highlights the speed at which, on the Freesat platform at least, iPlayer’s base is being caught – and, in usage terms, left behind – by its £8.99 per month commercial rival.While not as representative of the make-up of the UK as Barb’s panel of 5,100 homes, the Freesat data is drawn from a much larger group of 200,000 connected set-top boxes, which accurately measure when the iPlayer and Netflix apps are booted up.Worryingly for the BBC, the share of viewers using its ondemand service fell in 2017, despite a host of developments, including the introduction of mandatory sign-in to enable greater personalisation and more prominent … [Read more...] about Netflix pulls ahead of BBC iPlayer in UK