Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

Agent Coulson · 10-10-2023 4:36pm

Netflix UK & Ireland is making big money and they aren't losing subscribers infact it growing subscribers.

Netflix has revealed its full revenue from UK subscribers for only a second time — and it has been a year of growth for the streaming giant.

The company behind British originals The Crown and Sex Education posted sales of £1.54B ($1.9B) in the 12 months to the end of December 2022, an increase of 12% on the previous year’s revenue of £1.4B.

The earnings were disclosed by Netflix Services UK, the main entity that the streamer has registered at the UK’s Companies House. Pre-tax profits for the entity rose 22% to £34.1M last year.

It is only the second time Netflix has provided the full picture of its UK sales after changing its accounting practices in 2020 to stop funneling revenue through its European headquarters in the Netherlands.

Netflix Services UK’s earnings said that its average number of paid memberships increased 4% last year, while it also enjoyed 14% growth in the average money it made from each subscriber.

Netflix did not disclose how many UK subscribers it has, but audience research body BARB said 17.2M British homes had access to the streamer at the end of 2022, which was up 3% year-on-year.

Netflix Services UK’s tax bill has gone up considerably since it started posting full UK revenue. It paid £6.4M in income tax last year, compared with £5.3M in 2021.

The company’s earnings showed that its average number of UK employees grew by almost a third to 202. Most are based at Netflix’s UK headquarters at 30 Berners Street in central London.

Netflix said: “The UK is our most important production hub outside North America and we are deeply committed to making Netflix series and films here. Since 2020 we have invested almost $6 billion in making shows like Heartstopper, The Crown, and Top Boy. This is an increase of nearly 50% on what we originally anticipated and has created thousands of jobs right across the country.”

https://deadline.com/2023/10/netflix-uk-earnings-revenue-rockets-1235568506/

eightieschewbaccy · 10-10-2023 10:22pm

I'd suspect the account sharing thing ended up catching people who share in reasonably decent ways. My mother uses Netflix so I'm inclined to just pay the extra fiver. It's pretty much prime and that which end up my defaults.

jj880 · 10-10-2023 11:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121219210#Comment_121219210

More mugs out there than I thought. You'd wonder how much Netflix will rip the hole out of it before these numbers start going the other way.

jj880 · 11-10-2023 12:00am

https://youtu.be/KTt9Dn_W1aE

Enjoyed it. Dark humour action. Script a bit light but fight scenes are excellent.

thefa · 11-10-2023 12:37pm

Enjoyed Fair Play. Hadn’t been expecting it to be as intense at different points. Two main characters are well acted.

cdgalwegian · 11-10-2023 5:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121223172#Comment_121223172

Fair play, it's got decent enough reviews.

JP Liz V1 · 11-10-2023 10:57pm

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Sally Webster would be proud 😄

https://youtu.be/vICUPlr3EEI

jj880 · 12-10-2023 8:39pm

Started watching Formula 1: Drive To Survive. Its a great series. Looks amazing in 4K but theyve done something with the sound that takes it to the next level. Dolby? Anyway havent watched anything that's managed to get as much out of my TV speakers. Really immersive.

hollypink · 13-10-2023 8:27am

I started The Fall of the House of Usher last night and found myself on episode 4 at midnight. I loved Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass and Haunting of Hill House so had high hopes for this, tempered by my lack of interest in the Midnight Club even within the first episode. The Fall of the House of Usher is gory, no doubt about that but I'm loving the atmosphere of it and the storytelling. Reactions elsewhere (reddit) seem mixed so far though. I haven't read the book but I've a hazy idea of how it goes. Loosely basing the family on a recognisably loathsome real-world family was quite a clever device.

km79 · 15-10-2023 10:49am

The latest season of Top Boy is absolutely brilliant. As good as tv gets

Charlie19 · 15-10-2023 3:14pm

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Wagwan

Gremlinertia · 15-10-2023 4:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121241485#Comment_121241485

Get food, make P's. Love

pixelburp · 16-10-2023 4:16pm

Proper trailer has appeared for that Scott Pilgrim redo that's animated, but voiced by the cast of the 2010 movie. Not much to go on but I tend to be a bit leery about predominantly screen actors & "big names" doing voicework 'cos they're very different disciplines.

https://youtu.be/dLvRvqByxUI

jj880 · 16-10-2023 5:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121230846#Comment_121230846

On episode 6. Enjoying it a lot. Some great actors from classic movies over the years. All putting in good shifts with some of the harshest dialogue Ive heard in a while e.g. "You've got new b@stards popping up like the latest smartphone". 😆 Hope it finishes as strong as it started.

Fysh · 16-10-2023 10:55pm

Finished up Fall Of The House Of Usher tonight and it sticks the landing. I thought it was excellent, to the extent that I'll need to mull it over for a few days to decide whether it nudges Midnight Mass from the top spot of Flanagan's work.

I suspect that this one will find more favour than Bly Manor did because it is clearer and more confident in what it's doing (I liked Bly Manor a lot, but it felt like its form - ghost story - conflicted a bit with the tragic gothic romance it wanted to be).

secondrowgal · 17-10-2023 4:40pm

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I see you all giving this good reviews, but is it a horror? We don't like horrors in our house... 👻

jj880 · 17-10-2023 5:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121250668#Comment_121250668

Finished it today. Ending is excellent. I'd put it in thriller / mystery / horror genres equally. Herself and myself enjoyed it. A good story well presented is always a winner in our house even with some horror thrown in 👍

eightieschewbaccy · 17-10-2023 8:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121250668#Comment_121250668

Horror mixed with Succession

Sugarlumps · 18-10-2023 9:30am

Easy was highly enjoyable once you make it past a few episodes, and Love was good also.

Gloomtastic! · 18-10-2023 3:35pm

Kim’s Convenience is like Open All Hours but based in Canada and Arkwright is Korean. Funny, sweet and 20 minute episodes. What’s not to like? 😉

Gremlinertia · 20-10-2023 10:46am

Watched the latest season of Top Boy, was great stuff.

The Fall of The House of Usher is excellent, shades of American Horror Story in places, very slick, enjoying it highly

appledrop · 20-10-2023 11:17pm

The Beckham documentary is excellent,way better then I expected.

appledrop · 20-10-2023 11:25pm

I watched 'Nowhere' on a whim this week, not expecting much, it was outstanding.

jj880 · 21-10-2023 7:55pm

https://youtu.be/7uhfzdsxYWU

Big Vape.

Good watch. Not a smoker / vaper myself so didn't know much about juul or similar products. Found the story of it very interesting.

Also just got my first "Add someone from outside the home to your Netflix account" screen. Skipped it. How long before anyone outside the home location gets blocked?

Rfrip · 21-10-2023 8:43pm

Ah fall of the house of usher was so good!

Nigzcurran · 21-10-2023 10:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121268405#Comment_121268405

You'll start getting them every few days unfortunately

Agent Coulson · 23-10-2023 4:28pm

Finally arriving

https://twitter.com/NetflixUK/status/1716401598958584273

pixelburp · 23-10-2023 4:40pm

Watched Mark of the Phantasm the other month and it really held up. In fact it was surprisingly deep and left me thinking it was the best onscreen treatment of Bruce Wayne.

JP Liz V1 · 23-10-2023 10:48pm

From Friday 27th

Pain Hustlers

Liza Drake (Emily Blunt) is a blue-collar single mother who has just lost her job and is at the end of her tether. A chance meeting with pharmaceutical sales rep Pete Brenner (Chris Evans) puts her on an upwards trajectory economically but a dubious path ethically as she becomes entangled in a dangerous racketeering scheme. Dealing with her increasingly unhinged boss (Andy Garcia), the worsening medical condition of her daughter (Chloe Coleman) and a growing awareness of the devastation the company is causing soon forces Liza to examine her choices.

https://youtu.be/iycLZM7ycbI

Agent Coulson · 23-10-2023 11:25pm

Hollywood really is milking the prescription opiate epidemic.

Netflix Recommendations Thread 3.0

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