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WWE’s continuing decline after deal with Netflix
March 5, 2025“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 booking strategy has always focused…
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Shorter series damage storytelling
November 22, 2023Streaming 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 and expanded in the early…
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Nimona shows rebellion and heart
August 1, 2023Based 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 Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed),…
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Surviving my first live audience show
April 9, 2023You’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 newest “social experiment,” you just…
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60% accurate Netflix trivia
April 9, 2023What 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 (Season 1) Squid Game Lupin …
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SPOOF: SFU Productions announces three upcoming films
April 9, 2023Engaged & 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 amongst each other with the…
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SPOOF: Netflix’s cancellation parties
April 9, 2023Netflix 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 Netflix. These SFU-hosted events are meant to unveil…
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SPOOF: Things that were definitely shot at SFU
April 9, 2023The 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 off dystopian movies. The Maze…
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Netflix releases press email to users in response to diversity concerns
April 9, 2023To 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 first diversity report in 2021,…
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Netflix announces it has successfully reinvented cable TV
April 5, 2023Here 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 having a euphemism for the…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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