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WWE’s continuing decline after deal with Netflix
March 5, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer “Are. You. Ready?” These are the words World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) chief content officer Triple H asked a Monday Night Raw audience on the company’s first ever Netflix broadcast. In January of 2024, the two companies announced a deal in which Raw would exclusively air on Netflix around the world. Alongside this, Friday Night SmackDown, NXT, and “premium live events” (pay-per-views) would stream live on Netflix in countries outside of the US. Triple H has been in charge of WWE’s creative processes since July of 2022 following the infamous retirement of Vince McMahon. Triple H’s…
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Shorter series damage storytelling
November 22, 2023By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Streaming services have negatively affected the entertainment industry in multiple ways, and one example is how companies like Netflix and Max continue to shorten TV seasons. This has been an issue since the late 2000s…
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Nimona shows rebellion and heart
August 1, 2023By: Kelly Chia, Editor-in-Chief Based on its premise alone, I knew the movie Nimona would have my heart; anyone who knows me, knows I adore a good found family story. The titular character, Nimona (voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz), and…
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Surviving my first live audience show
April 9, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor You’ve probably watched a handful of ‘90s sitcoms — Seinfeld, Cheers, That ‘70s Show — that had a live audience laugh track. So when your friend tells you they have two tickets to attend Netflix’s…
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60% accurate Netflix trivia
April 9, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer What was the first Netflix original series? Black Mirror House of Cards Stranger Things Money Heist 2. Which Netflix original show was streamed for 1.65 billion hours in 2021? You (Season 3) Ginny & Georgia…
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SPOOF: SFU Productions announces three upcoming films
April 9, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer Engaged & Unstaged SFU Productions is working with Netflix on a reality dating show involving a group of randomly-selected SFU students. Students are blindfolded and brought to a classified area nearby, where they will mingle…
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SPOOF: Netflix’s cancellation parties
April 9, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor & Netflix Representative Netflix invites its subscribers — and its subscribers only — to take part in one of our three cancellation parties. We’re collaborating with SFU, as experts in engagement, to engage students with…
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SPOOF: Things that were definitely shot at SFU
April 9, 2023By: Natalie Cooke, News Writer The Maze Runner (2014) SFU News claims SFU Burnaby campus was created with a “strikingly futuristic design,” but we would all be kidding ourselves if we didn’t admit the architecture was simply built to profit…
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Netflix releases press email to users in response to diversity concerns
April 9, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor To our esteemed viewers, we hear you loud and clear. Netflix was disheartened to learn of our users’ sudden discontentment with the platform’s dwindling content, amidst Riverdale being cleared for yet another season. Since our…
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Netflix announces it has successfully reinvented cable TV
April 5, 2023By: C Icart, Staff Writer Here at Netflix, we’re just like that mediocre show we cancelled after two seasons . . . Insatiable. We have successfully sneaked our way into homes worldwide and cemented ourselves into meme history books by…
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