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#LasVegasresidency # Mo’nique Nearly a year after asking fans to boycott Netflix over allegations of racial and gender bias, Mo’nique is re-emerging as the first black female comedian to have a Las Vegas residency.  Washington Post -Feb 7, 2019

#FyreFestival #Netflix #Hulu #BillyMcFarland #JaRule 2017's  Fyre Festival  became a viral sensation when hundreds of people expecting to party with celebrities on an island in the Bahamas showed up to an event in complete disarray. Now two documentaries, Netflix's "Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened" and Hulu's "Fyre Fraud," recount the experience of being there and shed light on the person behind it who is now in prison for fraud. Here's what we think the movies' strengths are and which one is the best to watch. Billy McFarland, the Fyre Festival founder, is in the Hulu doc, but don't expect anything revealing. Billy McFarland in "Fyre Fraud."   Hulu McFarland is all over both movies thanks to archival footage, but "Fyre Fraud" is the only one that interviewed him on camera. ( Hulu paid McFarland to be in the movie .) However, don't expect much from the footage. Outside of one t...

#Netflix lifted the veil on some of its #viewership numbers for top-performing content like #BirdBox Though the company has typically omitted these numbers, it disclosed how some of its shows are performing in its fourth quarter 2018 earnings report Thursday. While the numbers paint a slightly clearer picture of Netflix's viewership, it still doesn't show exactly how many people have viewed the content, as it reported these numbers based on "member households," which leaves room for ambiguity since subscribers often share accounts. Overall, Netflix said it serves about 100 million hours of video per day, earning an estimated 10% of all time spent in front of the TV in the U.S. Netflix said its hit of the season, "Bird Box," featuring Sandra Bullock and inspiring countless memes, reached 80 million member households in its first four weeks on the streaming service. By way of comparison, during the week of Jan. 7, the top TV show was an NFL playo...

#Netflix #Secretcodes  Early last month, we reminded our readers that there are hundreds of secret categories on Netflix that the company uses internally to better organize its ever-growing content library. The regular Netflix interface on computers and in mobile or smart TV apps only gives users access to the top-level categories, such as “Dramas.” But what most people don’t realize is that there are nearly 20 hidden subcategories buried within the Dramas category, such as “Crime Dramas,” “Teen Dramas,” and “Political Dramas.” Using these hidden categories lets you narrow down your search so it’s easier to find content you’re in the mood to watch, and we showed you an awesome free plugin that makes browsing all of Netflix’s secret categories much easier. But now that you know how to access them, which hidden categories should you check out first? Before we dive in, let’s quickly go back over how to access all of these nifty secret Netflix categories. The task is best achi...

#Facebook admitted it allowed #Netflix and #Spotify to access people's private messages. That's after a bombshell New York Times report which detailed how companies such as Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, and Yandex potentially had access to user data as late as 2017. Facebook said it allowed other companies to access people's private messages so they could use its messaging features through other apps. Facebook said it found no evidence of companies abusing their access. But it's still a shocking revelation since most people assume only they have access to their private messages on Facebook and other platforms. Facebook has admitted that it allowed external companies, namely Spotify and Netflix, to access millions of people's private messages. Responding to a bombshell New York Times report on how Facebook shares user data with partners, the company acknowledged it had given third-party companies extensive access to messages. It said this was so people cou...

At 85 years old, #QuincyJones is one of the most influential people in the history of recorded music, yet I would guess that, in 2018, many casual music fans would be hard-pressed to explain what exactly he actually did. Jones’ name has been legendary in music circles for more than half a century, but much of his résumé consists of terms and vocations that are now obsolete, at least as far as mainstream pop is concerned. He was a trumpet prodigy who befriended Ray Charles and joined Lionel Hampton’s band while still a teenager. Before turning 30, he’d become one of the most in-demand arrangers in the biz and the musical consigliere to Frank Sinatra. By the 1970s, he was the quintessential superproducer and “record man,” an indefatigable hit-maker and general entertainment-industry Svengali. He did all this even before he began a collaboration with ex-Motown star Michael Jackson that would reach its apex in 1982 with  Thriller , the most commercially successful album ever ...

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times/Redux Bruce Springsteen's one-man show will go from Broadway to a global audience as Netflix will stream 'Springsteen on Broadway' this December. “We are thrilled to bring Bruce Springsteen – a master storyteller, humanitarian and voice of the everyman – to Netflix in this historic one-man show. This groundbreaking experience defies the boundaries of theater, concerts, and film and will give our global audience an intimate look at one of the biggest cultural icons of our time,” Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement. Since its premiere at the Walter Kerr Theatre in October 2016, Springsteen has extended his one-man-show run numerous times: The performance was initially set to run six weeks through November 2016 before Springsteen tacked on 10 more weeks of shows. In March, the rocker extended the residency through December 15th, 2018 ; if that date proves to be the final gig, Springsteen on Broadway wil...