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      One more wafer-thin episode? No, I couldn’t … Alright, just one then | Barbara Ellen

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 07:35 · 1 minute

    When it comes to TV binge-watching I’m like Mr Creosote – but I fear those days are coming to an end

    Did the binge-watch turn us into a nation of TV addicts? Or, for some of us, was the darkness always there? A Radio Times survey , involving 21,000 people over three months, concluded that 56% of people binge-watch television series regularly, and 81% do it at least occasionally. The survey also said that viewing habits could reveal personality traits. People who watch episodes spaced out, like in yon olden days, are conscientious and conformist. Bingers are empathetic, hedonistic and value stimulation. Which seems a flattering way to describe slobbing out in front of a screen, scarfing down entire series while your children weep and your life collapses around you.

    Personally, I’ve long been a capital-B Binger. Elsewhere on these pages, I’m the television critic: the perfect cover for my “little problem”. Down my greedy viewing gullet goes this series, that series, perhaps a miniseries to finish, like the TV equivalent of Monty Python’s Mr Creosote’s “wafer-thin mint” . On a shamefully regular basis, my television threatens to turn itself off, menacingly counting down, almost as if it’s judging my multi-episode gorging (“Still watching Love is Blind ? Go to bed!”). I’m a lost cause, though going by the Radio Times findings, be it Ozark , The Bear , Squid Game or anything else, I’m not alone.

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      Netflix France : les 21 films et séries à voir en octobre 2023

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Yesterday - 06:22

    Netflix a sorti son plus beau costume d'Halloween à l'occasion de sa sélection du mois d'octobre 2023. Les amatrices et amateurs d'horreur vont être servis. [Lire la suite]

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      Pourquoi Disney+, Warner et Netflix se sont-ils alliés aux États-Unis ?

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 3 days ago - 15:30

    alliance-plateforme-streaming-us-158x105.jpg Les plateformes de streaming s'allient

    Disney+, Warner Bros, Netflix et Peacock s'allient pour s'émanciper des réseaux sociaux face au gouvernement américain.

    Pourquoi Disney+, Warner et Netflix se sont-ils alliés aux États-Unis ?

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      Après Sex Education, voici trois séries adolescentes à voir absolument

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 3 days ago - 13:30

    series-apres-sex-education-158x105.jpg Les trois séries à rattraper d'urgence

    Maintenant que Sex Education est terminée, on sèche nos larmes et on jette un œil aux séries adolescentes les plus réussies de ces dix dernières années.

    Après Sex Education, voici trois séries adolescentes à voir absolument

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      No need to send it back: Netflix posts its final DVDs to customers

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 06:30


    Mail-based service has had a 25-year run in the US but the streaming business eclipsed it long ago

    Most of Netflix’s 238 million streaming customers around the world will be unaware that the company first launched 25 years ago as a DVD mailing service. Even fewer might realise that operation has continued, with under 1 million people still subscribing.

    But the company is finally hitting the stop button, with its five remaining US distribution centres mailing out their final discs to American customers on Friday.

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      La fin de Sex Education est réparatrice : ode à une série drôle et touchante

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 3 days ago - 05:45

    Sex Education est une série terriblement drôle, mais elle a toujours été touchante. Cette saison 4 accentue les émotions, afin de boucler la boucle : la fin est cohérente avec tout ce qu'a établi la série Netflix jusqu'à présent. Il est difficile de dire adieu, mais l'adieu est réussi. Spoilers. [Lire la suite]

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      Tomb Raider sur Netflix : ce qu’on sait de la série animée avec Lara Croft

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 4 days ago - 08:48

    Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft dispose dorénavant d'une courte bande-annonce. Voici ce que l'on sait de cette série animée Netflix. [Lire la suite]

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      Netflix : la série animée Tomb Raider est officielle, avec un trailer explosif

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 4 days ago - 08:45

    template-jdg-6-158x105.jpg Lara Croft Netflix

    Lara Croft est de retour, avec une nouvelle série d'animation officialisée par Netflix.

    Netflix : la série animée Tomb Raider est officielle, avec un trailer explosif

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      Is it time to say goodbye to the binge watch?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 10:00 · 1 minute

    With more streamers returning to the old fashioned week-by-week release of shows and those that don’t often paying the price, it might be the end for the all-at-once drop

    Almost exactly two years ago, Netflix released Squid Game, the South Korean dystopian drama that temporarily took over social media. The Squid Game moment – and it was a moment, pervasive and fleeting – was an outsized version of the Netflix binge formula that, by late 2021 and especially after the mass couch event that was Covid, was so well-worn as to feel like clockwork. A show hits the streaming service all at once (in this case, nine episodes released worldwide on 17 September); it gains momentum online in memes, commentary and fan videos as part of an attention wildfire ( 142m households reportedly watched the show within a month); Netflix announces related projects building on the hype; the moment gives way to the next topic of the day and is consigned to the vast heap of viral internet history.

    One could argue that Squid Game was the apotheosis and the denouement of the binge model – a massive phenomenon that, because it was available all at once, at people’s leisure, burned out quickly (see: Bridgerton, The Queen’s Gambit, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and more). Since then, the model that defined its platform also seems headed for the dustbin; Netflix, which has very publicly faced subscriber and financial challenges in the past few years, is reportedly considering releasing Squid Game: The Challenge, the competition show spinoff of the series, in batches rather than all at once.

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