Netflix NEWS 06.19.2018

Netflix NEWS

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

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette  (June 19)

Netflix Comedy Special

Gadsby is a ten year stand up veteran. Her final show.Nanette, named after a cranky old barista she once met, is a devastating, furious farewell, in which Gadsby reveals the full extent of the pain she endured growing up gay in Tasmania, which didn’t legalise homosexuality until 1997. Gadsby's sexuality has been at the heart of her previous shows but this time, she refuses to hide her suffering behind the usual self-deprecating routines.
Date Announcement 
Watch the trailer

Brain on Fire (June 22)

Netflix Original Movie

New York Post journalist Susannah develops severe mental issues, but is unable to obtain a diagnosis. Her condition fluctates between violent and catatonia before she wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the previous month.
Stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Tyler Perry, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Richard Armitage.
Watch the trailer

Cooking on High Season 1 (June 22)
Netflix Distributed Series
A high-stakes cooking competition series involving one key ingredient: weed.

Derren Brown: Miracle (June 22)

Netflix Special

English mentalist and illusionist Derren Brown explores faith healing in a show that leaves skeptics and believers in awe.
Watch the trailer

Heavy Rescue: 401 Season 2 (June 22)
Netflix Distributed Series - 10 episodes
Crews work to keep North America's most intense stretch of highway open in any weather conditions.

Marvel's Luke Cage Season 2 (June 22)

Netflix Original Series

Luke Cage is wrongly imprisoned and given super strength and impenetrable skin through a failed experiment.
Lucy Liu will direct the season 2 premiere episode. Images released on August 29 revealed Misty Knight's bionic arm.
It was reported on November 20 that filming had concluded.
Annabella Sciorra joins the cast as Rosalie Carbone, described as a dangerous downtown criminal underworld power player with an eye, and an agenda, toward Harlem.
Read my Season 1 review - It depends 
Luke Cage - Street Level Hero
Season 2 Announcement 
Season 2 Date Announcement 
The Show Off video
Watch the Season 2 trailer
Luke Carries the Weight of Harlem
Season 2 - Misty and Colleen 

Us and Them (June 22)
Netflix Distributed Movie
Angry and frustrated, working class Danny aims to kick start a revolution by turning the tables on the establishment with a deadly game of luck.

To Each, Her Own (June 24)
Netflix Distributed Movie
Just as Simone works up the courage to tell her conservative Jewish family she's a lesbian, she finds herself attracted to a male Senegalese chef.
 
Netflix Trailers
The House of Flowers Season 1 trailer - August 10
Marvel's Luke Cage Season 2 trailer 2 - June 22
Brain on Fire trailer - June 22
Derren Brown: Miracle trailer - June 22
W. Kamau Bell: Private School Negro trailer - June 26
Kiss Me First Season 1 trailer - June 29
Like Father trailer - August 3

Netflix Previews & Videos

The Staircase - The Owl Theory
The First Time I Saw Me: Trans Voices video playlist
Parks and Recreations - Ron Swanson's Life Lessons
One Day at a Time - The Ladies get Real on Why ODaaT is Not Just a Sitcom
Lust Stories - Real Relationships
Marvel's Luke Cage Season 2 - Featurette: Long Road to Paradise
The Ranch Part 5 - Money Woes 
All About the Washingtons - Date Announcement - August 10
Mind Hunter - Cameron Britton Transforms into Disturbed Killer Ed Kemper
Stranger Things Spotlight - Millie bobby Brown 
Stranger Things Spotlight -  Noah Schnapp
My Next Guest - David Letterman and Jerry Seinfeld Talk Baseball
A Star is Born (1976) 
A Star is Born (1976) - Barbra Streisand and Jamie Foxx in Conversation at FYSee
Sacred Games Season 1 - Kaam 25 Divine
Set It Up -  Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell Play Horrible Bosses: True or False
The Break - Hate It or Love It 
The Break - Yogurt for Men

Netflix News & Announcements

Northern Rescue Season 1 Casting Announcement
B: The Beginning Season 2 Announcement
Hilda Season 1 Premieres September 21
Three New Unscripted Series Announced - The Fix, Westside, Sugar Rush 
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown Will Remain on Netflix 
Eddie Murphy in Dolemite is My Name Begins Filming 
Mincraft: Story Mode Interactive Series Coming to Netflix 
Telltale Games will Develop a Stranger Things Video Game, Will Not be on Netflix 
Ellen DeGeneres August Stand up Tour Dates will be Filmed for Netflix 
Peter Outerbridge Cast in V-Wars
Hache Season 1 Debuting in 2019
Lucifer Season 4 Will Return on Netflix 
Interview with Altered Carbon Production Designer
Will Ferrell to Star in Eurovision

Hype List
Black Mirror Season 5 (2019, projected)
Disenchantment Season 1 (2018)
Arrested Development Season 5 (2018)
Stranger Things Season 3 (2018, projected)
Altered Carbon Season 2 (unconfirmed)
The Witcher Season 1 (2020)
Ratched Season 1 (2019)
Dark Season 2 (2018, projected) 
Mindhunter Season 2 (2018)
The Umbrella Academy Season 1 (2018)