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U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, which airs “The Circle” and “Five Guys a Week,” has warned its production suppliers that some commissions may need to be canceled as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

Acknowledging the ‘unique and dynamic’ situation caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, C4 director of programs Ian Katz emailed producers Monday with advice on how the broadcaster is proceeding in light of the restrictions caused by coronavirus.

Katz acknowledged that many producers are already having to stop production at least for the time being.

“Each production will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis with an open line of communication between Channel 4 and the production company for the best action to take,” said Katz. “This may mean that some commissions will need to be postponed, or resume in different ways (e.g. curtailed), and potentially even canceled.”

He explained that decisions will be taken “in the context of...

If you're used to the usual variations on dating reality TV shows, Netflix might have an answer for you. Their new series Love Is Blind, created and hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, combines several elements of your typical dating show with a big twist: the contestants don't get to see each other face-to-face until after they've made a decision about their relationship. If the unusual premise has sparked your interest, here's the lowdown on how and when you can tune in.

Netflix is testing out a different kind of release strategy for Love Is Blind. In the past, streaming shows have mostly followed one of two patterns: dropping entire seasons at once, or releasing episodes on a weekly basis to mimic the old-school model of watching TV on "real" networks. For this show, however, the 10 episodes are being split up in three separate, staggered groups, according to People. First,...

Forget Instagram. So long, Snapchat. Smell you later, TikTok. We are all about The Circle, Netflix's latest reality competition series everyone is talking about.  Here's the gist: Eight players at a time live in the same building but never come face-to-face, only interacting through a social media messaging app created for the show. They can choose to be their authentic selves, using real photos and details, or they can decide to be someone else. Yes, they have permission to catfish. After the U.S. version's debut on Netflix on Jan. 1, binge-watchers quickly became obsessed with the show, falling in love with the contestants as they filtered, emoji'd, insta-flirted and...

Netflix has signed an overall deal with Titmouse, the Emmy-winning animation studio behind the Nick Kroll-co-created adult comedy series “Big Mouth.”

The multi-year production commitment overall deal includes a first-look option for Netflix on any adult animated series developed and created at the studio.

In addition to “Big Mouth,” Titmouse and Netflix also collaborated on the upcoming “The Midnight Gospel” series from Pendleton Ward and Duncan Trussell.

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“Titmouse has been at the forefront of the evolving animation industry and is the creative force behind an impressive variety of projects, including our very own ‘Big Mouth’ and ‘The Midnight Gospel,'” Mike Moon, head of adult animation for Netflix, said. “We’re thrilled to expand our collaboration with Chris, Shannon, and the entire team at Titmouse as we continue...

Netflix dropped the trailer for its upcoming 10-episode dramatic comedy series “Gentefied” on Tuesday, showing three Mexican American cousins trying to save their family’s taco shop in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.

The series, which premieres Feb. 21, is produced by “Ugly Betty” star America Ferrera and “That ’70s Show” star Wilmer Valderrama, both of whom will also guest star. Ferrera also directs two episodes along with co-creator Marvin Lemus, Marta Cunningham, Agora Guerra and Andrew Ahn.

“Gentefied” was created by two first-generation Chicano writers, Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez, and was adapted from their 2017 Sundance film of the same name.

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Here is Netflix’s description of the series:

In this badass bilingual series about family, community, brown love, and the displacement that disrupts it all, three...

The sci-fi epic Aniara has scooped four gongs, with a low yield for main contenders Roy Andersson and Mikael Håfström. In what has been called a lacklustre Swedish film year, the clearest beacon of light in 2019 was surely provided by Levan Akin in his heartfelt tale of a forbidden romance between two male dancers in the conservative Georgian dance community, And Then We Danced. It opened in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, became Sweden’s submission for the 92nd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film and has now been sold to nearly 40 territories. The co-production between Sweden’s Mathilde Dedye and Georgia’s Ketie Danelia, with additional co-production by Julien Féret, picked up the Guldbagge Awards for Best Film, Best Lead Actor (for Levan Gelbakhiani), Best Script (Akin) and Best Cinematography (Lisabi Fridell). Last week, it was awarded the Greta, the annual award handed out by the...

If you're tired of the same old reality franchises, The Circle on Netflix might be for you: a social-media-centric series that puts all its contestants in the same building, but with a twist: they can only communicate via social media. So where is The Circle building in real life? Although the Netflix show implies that it's some generic American apartment complex, you might be surprised to learn that it's not American at all - the show is filmed in the UK, where the concept originated a few years ago.

Series creator Tim Harcourt told OprahMag that the American version of the show was filmed in the same apartment building as the British original, but only admitted that the building is in Salford, Manchester. However, a bit of digging in British media reports on the UK version of the show reveals more info. Radio station CapitalFM revealed that the British version...

Shubham Goel, the unlikely breakout star of the Netflix reality competition series “The Circle,” dropped a bombshell in the show’s 11th episode, revealing that he was the youngest candidate for governor of California.

And yes, Goel did, in fact, run an independent campaign for the state’s top office in 2018 at age 22 — losing badly to Democrat Gavin Newsom. According to state election records, the UCLA graduate and virtual-reality manager finished in second-to-last place among the 27 candidates with a total of 4,020 votes.

Goel (affectionately nicknamed “Shooby”) finished second on “The Circle” to his bartender buddy Joey Sasso, who won $100,000 for befriending a bunch of strangers encountered only via voice-activated social media connections.

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The self-styled nerd described social media as “our modern-day bubonic plague” but quickly found himself chasing likes and DMing fellow contestants (including several catfishes) on the series,...

Netflix’s The Circle is the type of reality show that you plan to watch only one episode of, just to see what the deal is… but then suddenly it’s dark outside and you’ve blown through eight episodes in a row. Which is to say: It’s amazing, and the only thing I want to talk about.

It’s nearly impossible to explain The Circle (which Netflix has been rolling out in four-episode batches each Wednesday) in a way that makes it sound interesting or worth watching. But: Eight contestants live in an apartment building together, but in...

Reality shows such as MTV’s “The Real World” and CBS’ “Big Brother” have boasted about being social experiments where strangers are shoved into the same house and forced to live with each other 24/7. They are known for delivering a lot of literal in-your-face drama, as the close quarters and high-intensity of differing opinions, let alone additional game elements (at least in the latter) press on people’s stress points. But “The Circle” does the opposite: It takes strangers and isolates them in their own individual spaces, allowing them only to communicate through a special social media app for the show. They can get real with each other through words and emojis and uploaded images — or they can choose to play as a totally different persona.

“What I really love about the format is the comedy it can give you — and the comedy comes from people saying one thing publicly and another privately.