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Video streaming giant Netflix has reportedly committed $100 million to support black communities in the United States. The company plans to commit 2 percent of its cash holdings to black financial institutions and will also donate to a fund to “support financing to more than 2,500 entrepreneurs, homebuyers and consumers of color.”

After voicing the Vietnamese-American character Diane Nguyen in the animated Netflix series “BoJack Horseman” since 2014, actress Alison Brie now says she has regrets, saying the Netflix show “missed a great opportunity” to cast a Vietnamese-American actress.

Netflix has released a bonus episode of its medical documentary series Lenox Hill, which follows the response of hospital doctors grappling, in real time, with the deadly impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Actress Jenny Slate said she will no longer voice the bi-racial character Missy on Netflix’s animated series “Big Mouth,” saying that as a white woman, she was exercising her “white privilege” and engaging in the “erasure of Black people.”

Standup comedian and actor Chris D’Elia was hit with several accusation of sexual misconduct and intimidation of underage girls.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife Patty Quillin announced on Wednesday that they are donating $120 million to the United Negro College Fund and two historically black colleges in response to the death of George Floyd. According to Hastings, “We wanted to do our part to draw attention, in this case, to the HBCU’s 150 years of resilience, of educating young Black people and the stories not well understood in the white community.”

Online streaming giant Netflix pulled an episode of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’s 2015 sketch comedy show off the platform over the use of blackface in a skit.

Wealthy American corporations are using their money to signal they support the protests taking place across the country in the wake of a black man’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.

Netflix has thrown its support behind Black Lives Matter as violent riots backed by the activist movement escalated late Saturday, resulting in destruction in major cities around the country.

Everything the establishment media, academia, the government, and Hollywood touch is corrupt — including the sell-outs behind “Filthy Rich.” Shame on all of them, because all “Filthy Rich” does is further enable Jeffrey Epstein’s enablers. 

Mission abort? Netflix’s comedy series “Space Force” is bombing with establishment media TV critics despite a smug, anti-Trump premise that usually guarantees at least a passing grade from the media.

France is already starting to see movie and TV production return even though the country continues to experience a higher COVID-19 mortality rate than the United States.

Netflix has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming documentary series on Jeffrey Epstein. While the early footage features shots of Donald Trump and attorney Alan Dershowitz, the trailer omits any reference to Bill Clinton, who has been photographed aboard Epstein’s private jet, known as the “Lolita Express.”

Bill Clinton is set to executive produce a new series on the American presidency for the History Channel, according to reports.

The new Michelle Obama documentary on Netflix, “Becoming,” has fallen flat with reviewers who have called it “bland,” “self-celebratory,” and a “paper-thin” account of the former first lady.

“Social distancing will certainly be a requirement on all productions,” one insider at a major studio told Breitbart News about how major Hollywood studios are planning to re-start movie and TV production in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Former first lady Michelle Obama said in her newly-released Netflix documentary Becoming that having children was a “concession” that cost her “aspirations and dreams.”

Netflix released the teaser trailer for Steve Carell’s new workplace comedy series Space Force on Tuesday, inspired by President Donald Trump’s decision to designate the United States Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. military. 

Actor Nicolas Cage is expected to play Joe Exotic from Netflix’s hit series Tiger King in a new scripted series about the eccentric zookeeper.

The flamboyant voice-over was identified for years as “Randall.” But in actuality it belongs to comedian and voice-over actor Christopher Gordon, who is lending his voice to another wildlife venture — the new Netflix documentary series “Absurd Planet,” which uses humorous narration to make learning about science and nature more fun.

Prince Harry has recorded a special message to celebrate the 75th anniversary of children’s favorite Thomas the Tank Engine.

On the heels of increased speculation that she’ll be Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick and a star-studded online voter registration push, Michelle Obama is now set to star in a Netflix documentary focused on her 34-city book tour. 

While most of Hollywood is hurting due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, one studio has benefited from forced lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. Netflix said it saw a surge in memberships during the first quarter, adding nearly 16 million new subscriptions globally for the period ending in March.

Joe “Exotic” — the colorful star of Netflix’s hit documentary series “Tiger King” — has been moved to a prison medical facility in Texas, according to federal prison records. While prison officials haven’t said why he was moved, Joe Exotic’s husband said on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live that he has been placed in COVID-19 isolation.

Actress Ellen Page said President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are guilty of “environmental racism. She accused Trump of “destroying the world” with his climate change policy.

A recent report states that internet usage has surged by between 50 and 70 percent during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic while streaming services have seen a 12 percent increase in usage.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix said Friday it is establishing a $100 million relief fund for workers in the worldwide creative community affected by the coronavirus-caused halt of most film and television production.

Streaming giant Netflix has announced that it will be taking action to reduce the bitrates of streams in Europe, freeing up bandwidth, following a conversation between the European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.

The E.U. has reportedly urged streaming platforms such as Netflix and YouTube to reduce the quality of their streams in order to lighten the load being placed on the Internet by the increased number of people working from home due to the Wuhan coronavirus

Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar claims that President Trump’s coronavirus actions remind him of “Nazi” behavior in the Netflix series Hunters.

LOS ANGELES — Netflix is canceling its South by Southwest screenings and events amid concerns about the outbreak of the new coronavirus.

With another 6 million lost subscribers in 2019, customers are still fleeing traditional cable and satellite networks in droves.

Alyssa Milano will have more time to devote to her left-wing political causes now that her Netflix series has been canceled after two seasons.

Teen climate alarmist Greta Thunberg appeared in a video at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday evening highlighting the power of documentary films, explaining that documentaries about nature inspired her to take up her global warming crusade.

A report reveals that Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, Google, TikTok and other “mainstream entities” are peddling porn and prostitution.

The chief executive of England’s National Health Service (NHS) has slammed actress Gwyneth Paltrow over her Netflix series The Goop Lab, accusing it of “spreading disinformation” and posing a “considerable health risk” for those influenced by it.