Netflix NEWS 10.03.17

Netflix NEWS

Updates on Netflix original content releasing this week and the announcements from last week.
Netflix Originals Releasing This Week

Rodney Carrington: Here Comes The Truth (October 3)

Netflix Comedy Special

A stand-up comedian, actor, and country music artist, he has released six major-label studio albums and a greatest-hits package. His comedy act combines stand-up comedy and original songs.
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Bonus Family Season 1[Bonusfamiljen] (October 5)

Netflix Distributed Swedish Language Series

The series follows four children who have gone through separations and face new challenges, moving in together, raising each others' kids and coping with exes.
In Sweden step-dad or step-mom titles infer negative connotations, so 'bonus dad' or 'bonus mom' are the preferred titles, which beget the title of the series.

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (October 6)

Netflix Distributed Documentary

Transgender legend Marsha P. Johson is known as the Rosa Parks of the LGBT movement. In 1992 she was found in the Hudson River. The NYPD initially ruled it a suicide, but in this film trans activist Victoria Cruz re-examines the case.
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ID-0 Season 1 (October 6)

Netflix Distributed Animated Japanese Series

In the distant future, the discovery of the new mineral Orichalt has allowed humanity to expand beyond the Sol System. Humanity has developed I-Machines, robots that operate in extreme environments to mine Orichalt. I-Machines function by transferring a human pilot's consciousness into the robot's operating system. The human becomes the machine. While Alliance Academy student Maya Mikuri is in the middle of operating an I-Machine, she gets involved in an incident with pirates, and ends up serving as a crew member on an excavation company's spaceship.

Skylanders Academy Season 2 (October 6)

Netflix Kids Series

A spin off of the video game. In the game Skylanders defend their world of floating islands from threats with magical weapons and machinery. The target age group is as of yet unknown.
Watch the Season 1 trailer

Word Party Season 3 (October 6)

Netflix Kids Series

This animated kids show features four animals that love to sing, dance, and play as they help build vocabulary.

Suburra Season 1 (October 6)

Netflix Original Italian Language Series - 10 episodes

Netflix's first Italian series focuses on organized crime & the mafia clashing with political and religious leaders who want to turn a town off the Roman coast into a gambling paradise.
This is inspired by the Italian movie by the same name.
Date Announcement Video
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Netflix Trailers
Dynasty Season 1 Trailer - Excludes U.S.
O Matador [The Killer] Trailer 
Christina P.: Mother Inferior Trailer
The Magic School Bus Rides Again Sing-A-Long trailer 

Netflix Previews/Videos
Celebrate Def Jam with the Black National Anthem video 
Suburra Roman Nuda Featurette 
Star Trek: Discovery Teaser Spoilers video - Not available in the U.S. or Canada 
Stranger Things - Love in the Upside Down video
The Death Note VR Experience video
First They Killed My Father - Q&A with Angelina Jolie and Loung Ung video
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson - My Gay video
Big Mouth - Space Uterus video
Our Souls at Night - Featurette video 
Johnny Shawarma: Fair and Lovely teaser
Clementine Marie: Feminine. Beauty. Aloud. teaser
Peaky Blinders Season 4 teaser 
American Vandal Critical Acclaim video
Voyeur - A Guest of the Voyeur video

Netflix Announcements
The Last Laugh with Chevy Chase, Richard Dreyfuss, Lewis Black Begins Filming
First Korean Variety Show - Busted 
Amin Joseph Cast in The After Party
Netflix Spending $400 Million in Canada in Next Five Years

Hype List
Black Mirror Season 4 (2017)
Stranger Things Season 2 (October 27)
Disenchantment Season 1 (2018)
The Witcher Season 1 (TBA)
Ratched Season 1 (TBA)
Trollhunters Season 2 (2017)
Arrested Development Season 5 (2018)
Altered Carbon Season 1 (TBA)
The Umbrella Academy Season 1 (2018)
Pottersville (2017)