Within the dynamic streaming services, Netflix remains a steadfast industry luminary. People love this platform, as it consistently features the world’s most popular shows as well as original productions. At this edge of the year, the streaming site’s lineup emerges, comprising rich content in different languages. This multinational streaming service is poised to engage viewers and provide unrivaled entertainment experiences. Let’s check out the lineup of Netflix originals being released in December 2023. 10 Upcoming Netflix Originals Releasing in December 2023 Blood Coast / Pax Massilia (Season 1) | December 6, 2023 From Netflix France, "Blood Coast / Pax Massilia" emerges as a gripping action thriller series. Olivier Marchal, known for his works such as "Rogue City" and "A Gang Story," directed it along with Ivan Fegyveres. The series portrays a group of unconventional policemen with distinct methods as they track down a dangerous criminal. The mission is to prevent Marseille from descending into a bloodbath.All six episodes are scheduled to drop on the same day. The series features a talented ensemble, including Florence Thomassin, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Olivier Barthelemy, Jeanne Goursaud, and Tewfik Jallab. Read more: Something Like An Autobiography: Real Story or Just a Film? Hilda (Season 3) | December 7, 2023 Derived from Luke Pearson's graphic novel series, "Hilda" delves into the ongoing adventures of an 11-year-old girl, her mother, and their deer fox. This expedition includes their settling into the fictional city of Trolberg. Hilda's exceptional ability to form connections with even the most formidable creatures continues to be the driving force of the series. Netflix welcomes back the beloved animated series with a final season comprising seven episodes and an extended 70-minute special. The web series stars Bella Ramsey, Ameerah Falzon-Ojo, Oliver Nelson, Daisy Haggard, and Rasmus Hardiker. Read more: Top 10 Highest Earning South Indian Films of All Time The Archies (2023) | December 7, 2023 Based on "The Archies" comics, this Hindi-language film is set in 1960s India. The movie was made under the direction of Zoya Akhtar, and written by Ayesha Devitre Dhillon, Reema Kagti, and Zoya. The movie explores the iconic gang, embracing themes of youth, rebellion, friendships, first loves, and the complexities of young adulthood. The film features a talented cast, including Mihir Ahuja, Aditi Saigal, Khushi Kapoor, Suhana Khan, Yuvraj Menda, Agastya Nanda, and Vedang Raina. Leave the World Behind | December 8, 2023 Netflix's adaptation of Rumaan Alam's 2020 novel, "Leave the World Behind," presents a compelling drama. Sam Esmail, serving as both director and screenwriter, assembles a distinguished cast, featuring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, and Myha'la. Read more: Top 10 Highest-Earning Bangladeshi Films Set during a family vacation on Long Island, the narrative takes an unexpected twist when two unanticipated visitors arrive, bearing news of a mysterious cyberattack. As the threat escalates, both families find themselves grappling with their destiny in a world teetering on the edge of collapse. Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | December 15, 2023 The sequel to the 2000 hit "Chicken Run" comes to life in "Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget." Directed by Sam Fell, this British film features a screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick, John O'Farrell, and Rachel Tunnard. This stop-motion animated comedy film is a joint production by Aardman Animations and Netflix Animation. It continues the adventures of Ginger and her feathered buddies as they confront a new peril on the mainland. Read more: Top 10 Bollywood Movies Being Released in November 2023 The film boasts an ensemble cast of voice actors, including Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Bella Ramsey, Jane Horrocks, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Ferguson, Josie Sedgwick-Davies, and David Bradley.

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, stick to a familiar script in a new Netflix series that chronicles the couple’s estrangement from the royal family, chastising Britain’s media and the societal racism they believe has fueled coverage of their relationship. The first three episodes of “Harry and Meghan,” released Thursday, dissect the symbiotic relationship between tabloid newspapers a nd the royal family and examine the history of racism across the British Empire, and how it persists. The storytelling relies on interviews with the couple, their friends, and experts on race and the media. The series does not include dissenting voices, and there is no response from any of the media organizations mentioned. “In this family sometimes, you know, you’re part of the problem rather than part of the solution,’’ Harry says in one of the episodes. “There is a huge level of unconscious bias. The thing with unconscious bias is that it is actually no one’s fault. But once it has been pointed out, or identified within yourself, you then need to make it right.” The media’s treatment of Meghan — and what the couple felt was a lack of sympathy from royal institutions about the coverage — were at the heart of their complaints when they walked away from royal life almost three years ago and moved to Southern California. Lucrative contracts with Netflix and Spotify have helped bankroll their new life in the wealthy enclave of Montecito. Promoted with two dramatically edited trailers that hinted at a “war against Meghan,” the Netflix show is the couple’s lat est effort to tell their stor y after a series of interviews with U.S. media organizations, most notably a two-hour sit down in 2021 with Oprah Winfrey. Read more: Royals tour US green tech incubator, meet at-risk youth The first three episodes break little new ground on royal intrigue, leading one British-based analyst to conclude that the main audience Harry and Meghan are trying to reach is in the United States. The series is an effort by Harry and Meghan to cement their place in American society, where fame and riches await, says David Haigh, chief executive of Brand Finance, which has analyzed the monarchy’s value to the UK economy. “They are trying to become the next Kardashian family. And they are using the fame and notoriety of the monarchy as their stepping stone to get there,” he said. “No one would take the remotest bit of interest in either of them if they weren’t strongly associated with the UK monarchy.” The series comes at a crucial moment for the monarchy. King Charles III is trying to show that the institution still has a role to play after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, whose personal popularity dampened criticism of the crown during her 70-year reign. Charles is making the case that the House of Windsor can help unite an increasingly diverse nation by using the early days of his reign to meet with many of the ethnic groups and faiths that make up modern Britain. Harry’s 2018 marriage to the former Meghan Markle, a biracial American actress, was once seen as a public relations coup for the royal family, boosting the monarchy’s effort to move into the 21st century by making it more representative of a multicultural nation. But the fairy tale, which began with a star-studded ceremony at Windsor Castle, soon soured amid British media reports that Meghan was self-centered and bullied her staff. The new series seeks to rebut that narrative in the three hour-long episodes released Thursday. Three more are due on Dec. 15. It opens with video diaries recorded by Meghan and Harry — apparently on their phones — in March 2020, amid the couple’s acrimonious split from the royal family. It’s “my duty to uncover the exploitation and bribery” that happens in British media, Harry says in one entry. “No one knows the full truth,” he adds. “We know the full truth.” The couple then tell the story of their courtship and the initial enthusiasm that greeted the relationship. But the tone shifts as Harry recounts the intense media scrutiny faced by Meghan, reminding him of the way his mother, Princess Diana, was treated before she died in a car crash while being trailed by photographers. “To see another woman in my life who I loved go through this feeding frenzy – that’s hard,” Harry says. Read more: Duchess of Sussex gets goofy on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show “It is basically the hunter versus the prey.” Harry and the series' other narrators say the palace is partly to blame for this treatment because it has granted privileged access to six newspapers that feel they are entitled to learn intimate details about members of the royal family since British taxpayers fund their lives. Harry and Meghan said they initially tried to follow palace advice to remain silent about the press coverage as other members of the royal family said it was a rite of passage. But the couple said they felt compelled to tell their story because there was something different about the way Meghan was treated. “The difference here is the race element,” Harry said. That bias has deep roots in the history of the British empire, which was enriched by the enslavement of Black people and the extraction of wealth from colonies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, said historian and author David Olusoga in the program. It is only since World War II that large numbers of Black and Asian people moved to Britain, changing the face of the nation. Those changes aren’t reflected in the British media. While Black people make up about 3.5% of Britain’s population, they account for just 0.2% of the journalists, Olusoga said. “We have to recognize that this is a white industry…,” he said. “So people who come up with these headlines, they are doing so in a newsroom that’s almost entirely white, and they get to decide whether something has crossed the line of being racist.” King Charles III was asked if he had watched the series as he carried out an engagement on Thursday in London. He did not reply. Race became a central issue for the monarchy following Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021. Meghan alleged that before their first child was born, a member of the royal family commented on how dark the baby’s skin might be. Prince William, the heir to the throne and Harry’s older brother, defended the royal family after the interview, telling reporters, “We’re very much not a racist family.” But Buckingham Palace faced renewed allegations of racism only last week when a Black advocate for survivors of domestic abuse said a senior member of the royal household interrogated her about her origins during a reception at the palace. Coverage of the issue filled British media, overshadowing William and his wife Kate’s much-anticipated visit to Boston, which the palace had hoped would highlight their environmental credentials.

The Netflix series “Zero,” which premiered globally last month, is the first Italian TV production to feature a predominantly Black cast, a bright spot in an otherwise bleak Italian television landscape where the persistent use of racist language and imagery is sparking new protests. Even as “Zero” creates a breakthrough in Italian TV history, on private networks, comedy teams are asserting their right to use racial slurs and make slanty-eye gestures as satire. The main state broadcaster RAI is under fire for attempting to censor an Italian rapper’s remarks highlighting homophobia in a right-wing political party. And under outside pressure, RAI is advising against — but not outright banning — the use of blackface in variety skits. With cultural tensions heightened, the protagonists of “Zero” hope the series — which focuses on second-generation Black Italians and is based on a novel by the son of Angolan immigrants — will help accelerate public acceptance that Italy has become a multicultural nation. Also read: Farooki's 'Doob' most viewed content on Netflix from Bangladesh “I always say that Italy is a country tied to traditions, more than racist,” said Antonio Dikele Distefano, who co-wrote the series and whose six novels, including the one on which “Zero” was based, focus on the lives of the children of immigrants to Italy. “I am convinced that through these things — writing novels, the possibility of making a series — things can change,” he said.  “Zero” is a radical departure because it provides role models for young Black Italians who have not seen themselves reflected in the culture, and because it creates a window to changes in Italian society that swaths of the majority population have not acknowledged. Activists fighting racism in Italian television underline the fact that it was developed by Netflix, based in the United States and with a commitment to spend $100 million to improve diversity, and not by Italian public or private television. “As a Black Italian, I never saw myself represented in Italian television. Or rather, I saw examples of how Black women were hyper-sexualized,″ said Sara Lemlem, an activist and journalist who is part of a group of second-generation Italians protesting racist tropes on Italian TV. “There was never a Black woman in a role of an everyday woman: a Black student, a Black nurse, a Black teacher. I never saw myself represented in the country in which I was born and raised.” “Zero,” which premiered on April 21, landed immediately among the top 10 shows streaming on Netflix in Italy. Perhaps even more telling of its impact: The lead actor, Giuseppe Dave Seke, was mobbed not even a week later by Italian schoolchildren clamoring for autographs as he gave an interview in the Milan neighborhood where the series is set. Seke, a 25-year-old who grew up in Padova to parents from Congo, is not a household name in Italy. “Zero” was his first foray into acting. “If you ask these children who is in front of them, they will never tell you: the first Black Italian actor. They will tell you, ‘a superhero,’ or they will tell you, ‘Dave’,” Dikele Distefano said, watching the scene in awe. In the series, Zero is the nickname of a Black Italian pizza bike deliveryman who discovers he has a superpower that allows him to become invisible. He uses it to help his friends in a mixed-race Milan neighborhood. It’s a direct play on the notion of invisibility that was behind the Black Lives Matter protests that erupted in Italian squares last summer following George Floyd’s murder in the United States. Black Italians rallied for changes in the country’s citizenship law and to be recognized as part of a society where they too often feel marginalized. “When a young person doesn’t feel seen, he feels a bit invisible,″ Seke said. “Hopefully this series can help those people who felt like me or like Antonio. ... There can be many people who have not found someone similar to themselves, and live still with this distress.” The protest movement has shifted from targeting Italian fashion, where racist gaffes have highlighted the lack of Black creative workers, to Italian television, where a movement dubbing itself CambieRAI held protests last month demanding that Italian state and private TV stop using racist language and blackface in skits. CambieRAI plays upon the name of Italian state TV, RAI, and the Italian language command “you will change.” The movement, bringing together second-generation Italians from a range of associations, also wants RAI — which is funded by mandatory annual fees on anyone owning a TV in Italy — to set up an advisory council on diversity and inclusion. Last week RAI last responded to an earlier request by other, longer-established groups asking that it stop broadcasting shows using blackface, citing skits where performers darkened their skin to impersonate singers like Beyonce or Ghali, an Italian rapper of Tunisian descent. “We said we were sorry, and we made a formal commitment to inform all of our editors to ask that they don’t use blackface anymore,” Giovanni Parapini, RAI’s director for social causes, told The Associated Press. He said that was as far as they could go due to editorial freedom. Also read: Oscar nominations Monday could belong to 'Mank' and Netflix The associations said they viewed the commitment as positive, even if it fell short of a sought-for ban, since RAI at least recognized that the use of blackface was a problem. Parapini, however, said the public network did not accept the criticism of the CambieRAI group “because that would mean that RAI in all these years did nothing for integration.” He noted that the network had never been called out by regulators and listed programming that included minorities, from a Gambia-born sportscaster known as Idris in the 1990s to plans for a televised festival in July featuring second-generation Italians. Dikele Distefano said for him the goal is not to banish racist language, calling it “a lost battle.” He sees his art as an agent for change. He is working on a film now where he aims to have a 70% second-generation Italian cast and crew. “Zero” has already helped create positions in the industry for a Black hairstylist, a Black screenwriter and a director of Arab and Italian origin, he noted. “The battle is to live in a place where we all have the same opportunity, where there are more writers who are Black, Asian, South American, where there is the possibility to tell the stories from the point of view of those who live it,” he said.

Netflix is streaming the TV series ‘The Crown’. Written by British dramatist Peter Morgan, it visualizes the reign of Queen Elizabeth II with a series of historical incidents regarding the British Royal family. Though the storyline of the royal soap opera ‘The Crown’ has received some criticism from the royal family, it has gained massive popularity among the audience with a fascinating rating of 4.7. After the long wait, Diana debuts on ‘The Crown’ in season four. Can Emma Corrin (playing Princess Diana) represent the elegance of the late royal princess who still lives in the hearts of millions of people?

In your hectic days you might have a fantasy of taking a long vacation which you want to spend sitting on the couch ideally eating lots of snacks and watching your favorite TV series. The recent circumstance of coronavirus outbreak is forcing you to stay at home until the situation gets under control. Certainly you never expected such vacation, but still you have to accept the way it is! Now how to spend this home quarantine period without getting bored? Don’t worry! In the age of Netflix, you have lots of options to choose from. Blissfully Netflix has officially launched a bunch of highly enjoyable TV series in the early months of 2020, which worth watching in your quarantine with utmost fun. Read this article if you are looking for entertaining, thrilling and educative series in the streaming giant Netflix to watch during your home quarantine.