• Netflix Orders 'Marco Polo' Series, Renews 'Lilyhammer'

    It's hard to believe that just two years ago, the very idea of Netflix offering original programming was a novelty. But the gamble paid off from the get-go. While Lilyhammer never quite reached the buzzy heights of later series House of Cards or Orange Is the New Black, it fared well enough to get a…

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  • Is Netflix's Full Season Release Strategy A Smart Business Model?

    At the end of last week I got into a twitter debate with producer Dana Brunetti (The Social Network, 21, Fifty Shades of Grey). Dana, executive producer on the new David Fincher-produced/directed tv series House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey, began tweeting about how he didn't understand how some people didn't get Netflix's decision to release the…

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  • TV Bits: Bryan Singer And Bryan Fuller Still Hoping To Make A New 'Star Trek' Series, Plus: 'Hannibal', 'Lilyhammer', James Patterson, Matthew Perry

    Don't get your hopes up too high just yet, but depending on how things go with Star Trek 2 it may just be possible for Bryan Singer and Bryan Fuller to try and bring Trek back to television at some point. Also after the jump: Bryan Fuller has a seven-season plan for Hannibal James Patterson's Private series…

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  • Watch The Trailer For Netflix's First Original Series 'Lilyhammer'

    In order to survive, Netflix is getting in the business of producing and distributing original content alongside their portfolio of catalog movies (a model first made profitable by HBO). I'm sure you've all read that they will be brining back Arrested Development in 2013. A couple other series are in the works, the first of…

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