Arts & Entertainment Netflix Faces Lawsuit From Real-Life Woman Who Allegedly Inspired 'Baby Reindeer' Stalker The Scottish woman who publicly outed herself as the inspiration for Martha, the stalker character in Netflix's hit series Baby Reindeer, is now suing Netflix for damages, defamation, and for causing "severe and extreme emotional distress."
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Documentary 'American Nightmare' Shines New Light on Vallejo Detective Who Botched Huskins Case A central figure in the disastrously bad investigation into the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins in Vallejo, Detective Mat Mustard, remains on the force, and a popular new Netflix documentary casts him as a villain.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area 'Gone Girl' Case Gets New Documentary Treatment on Netflix, 'American Nightmare' The almost-too-nutty-to-be-believed 2015 rape and kidnapping case involving Denise Huskins and then boyfriend Aaron Quinn, who lived on Mare Island near Vallejo, has been turned into a new docu-series from the team behind 2022's 'The Tinder Swindler.'
Arts & Entertainment SF Native Ali Wong Wins Golden Globe For Dramatic Role In Netflix Series 'Beef' Comedian Ali Wong has become a legit actor in recent years, and her dramatic turn as a vengeful, rage-hungry suburban businesswoman and mother in Netflix's 'Beef' just won her her first acting award, at the Golden Globes.
Arts & Entertainment Actress-Turned-Duchess Meghan Markle Seen as a Scab Seated Next to Strike Villain and Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos While Meghan Markle may not need her union anymore or her residuals from the streaming of 'Suits,' it maybe wasn't a great look for her to be seated next to Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos at the Beyonce show Monday in Los Angeles.
SF News 22-Year-Old Netflix Engineer Missing Since Monday, Possessions Found Near Golden Gate Bridge The family of San Jose man and recent Bay Area arrival Yohanes Kidane is frantically searching for him after his disappearance Monday, and while his phone and backpack were found near Golden Gate Bridge, there is still no sign of Kidane.
SF News Hollywood's Strike Reaches Silicon Valley: Writers, Actors, and Activists Picket Netflix HQ in Los Gatos Amid the nationwide SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strike, writers and actors including Sorry to Bother You's Michael Sommers protested Netflix's office in the South Bay Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment The End of an Era: Netflix Announces End of DVDs by Mail The business that got Netflix off the ground — and put Blockbuster in the ground — sending DVDs through the mail in red envelopes, is going to be no more as of this September.
Arts & Entertainment SF Native Ali Wong Takes Angry Turn In New Netflix Series 'Beef' Comedian Ali Wong may have made her name with standup, specifically a couple of standup specials on Netflix, but she's been branching out into acting. And now she's taken on her most dramatic role yet in the Netflix series 'Beef.'
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Scores Big With Oscar Noms for German-Language War Epic, But Streamers Mostly Shut Out This Year Los Gatos-based Netflix is the only one of the big players in streaming video to score big with Oscar nominations this year for their German-language WWI epic 'All Quiet on the Western Front.'
Business & Tech Netflix Cofounder Reed Hastings Steps Down From CEO Role After a bumpy year for Netflix, co-CEO and cofounder Reed Hastings is stepping down but will remain in the role of chairman.
Business & Tech Netflix Is Letting Go of Its Original Headquarters Building In Los Gatos (But Not Its Main HQ) Netflix, in the wake of a couple of rough quarters, hundreds of layoffs, and intensifying competition from the likes of HBO Max, Hulu, and others, is downsizing its office holdings both in the Bay Area and in SoCal.
Business & Tech Netflix Inks Deal With Microsoft to Put Ads on a Cheaper Tier of the Service Netflix has now committed to an ad-supported, lower-cost subscription package with Microsoft handling the ads, in an effort to boost the company's bottom line and lure back some customers.
Business & Tech More Layoffs Come to Netflix, With 300 People Losing Jobs Today After a rough start to the year and a severe drop-off in subscribers after pandemic binge-watching ended — and after pulling out of Russia — Netflix is doing more belt-tightening, with layoffs hitting 3% of its staff on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Netflix Is Working on a 'Squid Game'-Inspired Reality Game Show, Sans Murder Even if you were not among the people who contributed to the 1.65 million+ viewing hours 'Squid Game' accumulated in its first month after premiering, you’ve likely heard at least something about it. Now, there’s another show that could absorb and shock viewers: 'Squid Game: The Challenge.'
SF News Humpday Headlines: Netflix Lays Off 150 Netflix is laying off 150 employees following its dismal first quarter, San Jose has just seen its third homicide in a week, and SF is moving forward to establish a public bank.
Business & Tech Netflix Tells Employees They Can Seek Other Jobs If They Object to Content Eight months after a kerfuffle over a Dave Chappelle special and some other subsequent internal conflicts, Netflix took a stand and told its employees last week that they can bugger right off if they have personal objections to content being hosted on the streaming platform.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Tackled By Armed Man During L.A. Show, Makes Trans Joke Afterward Chappelle was talking onstage Tuesday at the Hollywood Bowl about how he needs extra security now that the LGBTQ community despises him. And then a guy rushed the stage in an apparent attempt to physically assault or harm him.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Sees Big Drop In Subscribers, Swears It's Going to Crack Down On Password-Sharing With the waning of the pandemic, Netflix is seeing its big subscriber growth fall off a cliff — and now the company is saying it's really going to get tough on password-sharing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan Chef From SF's Baia, a Former Boyfriend and Business Partner of 'Bad Vegan' Sarma Melngailis, Says She Deserves Second Chance If you watched the Netflix series 'Bad Vegan,' you may have noticed a chef's name that should be familiar in SF vegan circles — Matthew Kenney, who is the celebrity chef behind SF's two-year-old vegan Italian restaurant Baia.
Arts & Entertainment Carole Baskin Is Suing Netflix, Because Of Course Carole Baskin and her probably very exhausted husband Harold Baskin are now suing Netflix to stop the release of the second season of Tiger King, which is set to premiere on November 17. The Baskins say that they were misled by the filmmakers, and they are alleging breach of contract.
Business & Tech Fired Trans Netflix Employee Says They Were Not Acting Surreptitiously With Data, But It Was About Content Equity The Black trans Netflix employee who was fired last week amid the internal uproar at the company over the transphobia in Dave Chappelle's latest comedy special has given a new interview to explain how things went down.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Netflix Employees Walk Out Over Chappelle, CEO Admits ‘I Screwed Up’ David Chiu’s first task as city attorney will be to take on DoorDash, SF just reversed a policy on asking city employees’ sexual orientation, and the CEO of Netflix admits he could have maybe handled this whole Chappelle thing better.
Business & Tech Chappelle Controversy Continues Roiling Netflix as Black Trans Employee Gets Fired for Alleged Data Leak Dave Chappelle's exhausting, transphobic, grievance-filled rant of a comedy special continues to be a problem for Netflix as news came out late last week that the Los Gatos-based company had fired a Black trans employee who was helping the organize a walkout protest related to the special.
Business & Tech EU Wants Netflix To Stop Streaming In HD to Keep Internet From Breaking Los Gatos-based Netflix and other streaming platforms are being urged by a European Union commissioner to temporarily stop streaming content in HD due to the unprecedented levels of internet usage occurring as multiple countries go on lockdown.
