What is landing on the services, what is quietly disappearing, and how the platforms are changing their bets.
The executive Bob Chapek fired in a seven-minute meeting becomes the first outsider ever to run Netflix's content operation, a day after the company cut 1,000 jobs.
Marcus Dey4 min
Netflix grew from about 14,000 to 16,000 full-time staff in 2025, the fastest year in its recent filings. Wednesday's 1,000 cuts reverse half of that, six days before third-quarter results, with revenue still rising 13%.
On 11 August Chris Carter said Mulder and Scully would be in Ryan Coogler's X-Files. Sixty-three days later Hulu ordered the series with two new agents and neither of them. Here is everything Carter has said, with dates.
WandaVision ran for 49 days, Agatha All Along for 42 and VisionQuest gets 28. The Doomsday date does not force it: one episode a week would still have finished 24 days clear.
Ray Gunn was shelved in the Turner-Time Warner merger of 1996 and lost its IMAX slot to the fallout from the Warner Bros sale of 2026. It premiered in London on Friday to a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score, and it gets one day on a cinema screen for every 26 months it spent in development.
Animals landed on Netflix on 9 October with a 36 per cent critics' score and a director who admits the film used AI but refuses to say where. He sold Netflix the tools in March.
Skydance closed its $110bn Warner Bros. Discovery takeover on Tuesday and spent Wednesday declining to name, date or price the single app it says is coming. The Max name lasted 778 days. The restored HBO Max name is 455 days old.
Holland ran Paramount's direct-to-consumer business for 418 days. Casey Bloys has run HBO's programming for roughly 3,800, which is longer than Paramount+ has existed. A judge cleared the merger on Wednesday.
The last Disney+ price rise Chapek approved took effect eighteen days after the board sacked him. It put the ad-free tier at $10.99. On Wednesday it reached $21.49, and the gap between the ad-free and ad-supported plans has tripled to exactly $9.00.
Amazon has now retired both series announced under its Sony Marvel television pact, and it dropped the second one in the week the Spider-Man film franchise set domestic box office records.