Netflix has definitively withdrawn from the race to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) after its board of directors concluded that the latest offer from Paramount Skydance (PSKY) was superior and that the price needed to match it was no longer justifiable for shareholders. Victory, therefore, goes to the consortium led by David Ellison, under the shadow—and financial muscle—of his father, Larry Ellison, who put forward an offer of $31 per share, with additional incentives if the deal is delayed and even assuming the penalty for breaking with Netflix, which had made a final offer of $27.75. Pending government approval, this major media saga is nearing its conclusion.

Since the major Asian platforms have entered the European market selling directly to consumers, many small local businesses, both brick-and-mortar and online, have struggled. That's just how the market is, and everyone is free to choose where they shop.

After five seasons and nine and a half years, Stranger Things The final season is coming to an end. So far, the protagonists have had to face the beasts of the Upside Down, but the most important one, Vecna, remains. Eleven and her friends from Hawkins will try to defeat her during the nine episodes of this season. The premiere of this groundbreaking Netflix series is divided into three parts: the first four episodes will be released on November 27, the next four on December 25, and the final episode will premiere on New Year's Eve. In the previous season, the town of Hawkins was fractured by enormous cracks, and the Upside Down began to invade the real world, leaving the story at a critical point for a final season that promises great excitement, with the main characters having long since left adolescence behind.

November will be marked by many new series premieres, but also by one of the most anticipated returns of the year, that of Stranger ThingsOne of Netflix's biggest cultural phenomena is saying its final goodbye in three distinct phases. For now, the first four episodes are arriving. We'll review everything you can expect to find on streaming services this November.

Just a decade ago, viewers knew exactly when their favorite series would return. Typically, the most powerful productions had a new season in the fall, punctual as clockwork. However, today the waits have become eternal and unpredictable. Productions likeStranger ThingsThey accumulate more than three years between deliveries. And this is not the only case.

The call golden age The popularity of series does not arise spontaneously: it is flooded with billions that large global platforms invest in producing their content in the hope of gaining good positioning in the so-called streaming wars, aware that not all of them will survive. But, for now, this strategy is proving costly, and some of the efforts to attract subscribers are resulting in a bottom line that's difficult to justify. This is the current situation for the major global platforms.

In the 1980s, his story filled pages and pages of newspapers and magazines. At 14 months old, Osel Hita Torres, a child born in the Alpujarra region of Granada, was declared the reincarnation of the Buddhist lama Yeshe, whose parents were admirers. Known as the lama child Osel, dressed in traditional red and yellow Buddhist garb, entered a monastery in India at the age of 18 months and did not leave it for good until he was 18, when he decided he wanted to experience the Western world with all its implications. The documentary 'Osel' tells the story of the child lama, now an adult, father of a seven-year-old son.

The lyrics of songs, both in English and Spanish, are increasingly sexist, especially in the use of words related to the possession and control of the female body by men. This is one of the conclusions of a research led by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), which has analyzed the lyrics of more than 2,000 songs from the period between 1960 and 2022. According to the study, which has been carried out with artificial intelligence tools, 51% of the songs have songs. Since 2015, the increase is exponential. In fact, if the songs of the last decade are analyzed, 77% of the most listened to songs have sexist lyrics.

When looking back at the film listings of the last few months, romantic comedy is not the standout. The only recent exception would surely be Anyone but you, a return to the style of films that became popular in the 90s and that was a huge box office success (it has been available on Movistar Plus+ for months now). However, in general there are few other romantic comedy options if we want to enjoy it on the big screen. The reality is that this genre has become strong on platforms, where it is increasingly common to find series and films made directly for streaming of a romantic nature. Korea is one of the audiovisual markets most accustomed to this genre, but on the platforms we also find options from the United Kingdom, France, Australia or Italy.

The shift of the platforms towards conventional television has been a reality for almost a year. After becoming the driving forces of fiction, they saw that it was necessary to broaden their horizons. This is how they began to experiment with live broadcasts (this summer, for example, Max has offered the entire Olympic Games) and have incorporated formats such as Reality TV in their catalogues. Now, streaming services have set themselves another objective: to conquer the territory of daily series, fictions that have traditionally been broadcast during afternoon hours on conventional television and that are a product often – but not only – aimed at older viewers. In Catalonia it has been demonstrated that soap operas work well in digital windows: he As if it were yesterday It is often one of the most viewed content on 3Cat.

The sharp rise in prices in recent months, added to the great offer of streaming, makes television entertainment increasingly an economic expense that many users cannot and do not want to assume. Even if you are a fan of series, having all the platforms on the market contracted is not viable if current salaries and the cost of living are taken into account. What strategies can be followed to continue audiovisual consumption without multiplying costs? We review six possible tricks to save.