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Netflix has canceled The Vince Staples Show. reports that the comedy series saw a significant decline in viewership between its first season, which earned 4.6 million views in the span of four months, and its second, which drew 1.7 million views between its release in November 2025 and the end of the year. (Most streaming releases are disproportionately watched in the first 90 days.)

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, pickup order to lack of renewal. Here we bid farewell to the canceled shows of 2026. Less than a month into the year (and last lunar year not even over) and shows are already starting to drop. This post will serve as living tribute to the TV we're going to miss in 2027. Don't cry because they're over, smile because hopefully there are some sort of residuals in place for the workers.

Management announced that the number of paid subscribers rose above 325 million for the first time in the most recent quarter. Furthermore, its advertising business is a remarkable success and gives the company two strong lines of revenue. Revenue increased 18% year over year to just above $12 billion. Net income rose 29% to $2.4 billion. The company forecast revenue for this year in a range of $50.7 billion to $51.7 billion.

Since then, the company closed a global licensing deal with Sony Pictures and announced a proposed $83 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, shifting to an all-cash structure after rejecting a rival Paramount bid. Those moves signal Netflix's commitment to content depth and scale, but they also raise questions about capital allocation and integration risk. The market wants to see that subscriber momentum justifies these investments.

The Rip is the Netflix thriller of the moment, and frankly, it's a very good one. It's a new R-rated affair with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, in which the two Boston sons play corrupt Miami cops who wrestle over the seizure of $20 million in cartel money. It isn't a cinematic revolution by any stretch. But if you're mindlessly browsing Netflix and need something spicy to keep you from doomscrolling, The Rip is just what the doctor ordered.

But Joan Hickson's terrific run as Marple ended in 1992. As a lifelong admirer of Christie's works, it gives me no pleasure to report that the latest attempt to adapt the Queen of Crime's work is a dismal failure: There's no regard for Christie's prose, no idea who the series' audience is meant to be, and no goal except to further increase Netflix's intellectual property resources.

The video podcast will release episodes weekly, beginning January 30 at 12:01 a.m. PT. Each episode will feature a "candid, no-holds-barred" conversation between Davidson and a pal that takes place in his garage, per Netflix. "Netflix was the home of one of my first stand-up specials," Davidson said in a statement, "so it felt right to bring the podcast there, too. It's me and my friends talking about anything and everything. It's going to be a great time."

Netflix is continuing to double down on podcasts, with the streaming service's announcement that it has hired talent to host two original shows for its platform.

In 2000, Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph sat down across from John Antioco, then CEO of video rental giant Blockbuster, and pitched him on acquiring their still unprofitable DVD-by-mail startup, Netflix, which at the time had around 300,000 subscribers. But when they told him their price-$50 million and the chance to develop and run Blockbuster's online rental business-Antioco balked. It was a famously shortsighted business decision:

The world hasn't gotten any less dystopian, and so it makes sense that Netflix has greenlit Black Mirror for Season 8. No release date or episode count has been confirmed for the dark anthology series, which has been a Netflix staple since its third season, but creator Charlie Brooker says that "That chunk of my brain has already been activated and is whirring away."

The concert film and documentary, directed by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frías, follows Depeche Mode as they bring their vast catalogue to Mexico City's Foro Sol for three nights in September 2023. It examines the country's cultural relationship with death and how those themes appear throughout Depeche Mode's discography; the tour it depicts served as Depeche Mode's first outing following the passing of founding member Andy Fletcher, and the film includes interstitial footage of the city and its traditions around music and mortality.

Despite now being fully owned and controlled by Amazon MGM Studios, James Bond movies have been irregularly available on Prime Video or other streaming services in recent months. Starting January 15th, though, 26 of the iconic British spy's cinematic adventures will begin streaming on Netflix, from the Sean Connery-starring Dr. No to the final Daniel Craig film, No Time to Die.

The story follows a K-pop girl group called Huntr/x (pronounced Huntrix), who are also demon hunters, responsible for protecting humanity from supernatural threats with their combat skills and empowering pop. Their rivals are the Saja Boys, who are secretly demons. When the groups are pitted against one another, the stakes are peace on Earth, and in particular the Honmoon: the magical barrier that protects humans from the underworld. Conflict, and personal growth, ensues.

The Boyfriend is structured around queer men living and working together for two months. Throughout their time, they navigate love and friendship, which flits between sweet and intense. In the first season, the men lived in a beachside house. However, for season 2, Netflix is swapping the beach for the snow. The second season sees the men live in the winter landscape of Lake Akan in Hokkaido. This time, their group will work at a peppermint-coloured coffee truck.

Streaming platforms reigned supreme, with Netflix and Apple TV dominating our list with seven and five selections each. Genre-wise, we've got a bit of everything: period dramas ( The Gilded Age, Outrageous), superheroes ( Daredevil: Born Again), mysteries ( Ludwig, Poker Face, Dept. Q), political thrillers ( The Diplomats, Slow Horses), science fiction ( Andor, Severance, Alien: Earth), broody fantasy ( The Sandman), and even an unconventional nature documentary ( Underdogs).

"compiled references to LGBTQ+ themes, characters, storylines, and messaging across 326 Netflix series (both licensed and original) rated for young audiences (TV-G, TV-Y, or TV-Y7)"

The most telling point (so far) of Netflix's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, HBO and streaming businesses came from the company itself. In pushing back on claims that the deal would be anti-competitive, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters pointed to YouTube as a bona fide rival that it would still trail with Warner Bros stack - a point that would've sounded far-fetched not that long ago.