Netflix: all the originals and licensing announcements of Week 48-49

Series

• Orders season 2 of Never Have I Ever
• Series Equinox (Denmark) premieres 201230
• Orders season 2 of Izzy’s Koala World
• Reality series Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives (India) premieres 201127
• Reality series Best Leftovers Ever! premieres 201230
• Series Home for Christmas Season 2 (Norway, 6 episodes) premieres 201218
• Orders Korean version of series La Casa De Papel (Money Heist), 12 episodes
• Orders comedy series God’s Favorite Idiot (Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, 16 episodes)
• Musical reality series Song Exploder (Volume 2) premieres 201215
• Cancels season 2 of series Queen Sono (Africa)
• Series Lupin (Omar Sy) premieres 210108
• Season 4 of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Part 4, 8 episodes) premieres 201231
• Series Firefly Lane (Katherine Heigl, Sarah Chalke) premieres 210203
• Series How To Ruin Christmas: The Wedding premieres (South Africa, 3 episodes) 201216
• Orders season 2 of Blood of Zeus
• Ordered comedy series The Upshaws, premieres 2021
• Series Sweet Home (South Korea) premieres 201218

Movies

• Orders action movie The Ogun (Anthony Mackie)
• Orders movie Forty Acres (Dwayne Alexander Smith)
• Musical film The Prom (Ryan Murphy, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman) premieres 201211 and in select theaters
• Thriller movie Red Dot (Sweden) premieres 210211
• Licensing deal for movie Penguin Bloom (Naomi Watts) for select countries (US, Canada, UK, FR, some Asia), premieres 210127
• Orders animated movie Back To The Outback to premiere autumn 2021
• Orders movie Redd Zone (Jada Pinkett Smith)
• Near-global licensing deal for scf-fi thriller movie Stowaway (Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette)
• Movie The Dig (Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes) premieres 210129 and in select theaters
• Movie We Can Be Heroes (Robert Rodriguez, Priyanka Chopra, Pedro Pascal) premieres 210101
• Movie Your Name Engraved Herein (Taiwan) premieres 201223

Controversies

• Rightwing Hindus in India call for censoring A Suitable Boy
• Removes licensed (from ViacomCBS) standup Chappelle Show (Dave Chappelle) over non-payment by ViacomCBS to Chappelle