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Whenever scientists alert us to the possibility that a notably large asteroid could strike the earth, there’s one reaction you can count on seeing on social media: “I’m rooting for the asteroid.” (This is just one of the dozens of T-shirt designs that will let you express the sentiment.) This crowd probably has a lot of crossover with the pessimists who believe A.I. will doom us all. But what if humanity’s downfall comes from neither of those, but from the rise of super-intelligent hamsters who can beat even our fittest aspirants at getting through simple mazes? We might look back on Human vs. Hamster as a warning we should have heeded, but it will be hard to get very mad about it when our new overlords are so adorable.

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Deadline understands that Netflix is preparing a reality competition series based on the Roald Dahl story. This comes after the streamer acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company in 2021.

The expansive project is the latest example of a burgeoning trend in the unscripted market in the U.S. – The Bake-Off.

We hear that Netflix went out to a number of production companies, believed to include American Idol producer Fremantle, Wall to Wall, the British production company behind Who Do You Think You Are?, Nobody’s Hero, the production company behind Netflix’s Bullsh*t: The Game Show and Snack vs. Chef, and The Garden, which was...

Harry & Meghan rose to No. 2 on Nielsen’s latest U.S. ranking of streaming originals, while Wednesday claimed the top spot for a fourth straight week and Manifest came in for a landing.

For the week of Dec. 12, Wednesday amassed 2.16 billion minutes viewed across its eight episodes. The Netflix spooker thus has accumulated 16.8 billion viewing minutes in its first four weeks of availability, the second-highest such total for a streaming program (behind Stranger Things, which with the release of Season 4A generated 19.5 billion minutes between May 23 and June 19, 2022).

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Wednesday once again dominated Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals, while the docuseries Harry & Meghan made its chart debut at No. 3.

For the week of Dec. 5, Netflix’s Wednesday amassed another 3.3 billion minutes viewed across eight episodes, followed by Netflix’s Firefly Lane with nearly 1.4 billion minutes viewed across 19 total episodes.

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“Wednesday” continues posting huge numbers after three weeks on Netflix, beating out even the highly anticipated “Harry & Meghan” series on the streamer’s latest viewership rankings.

Tim Burton’s “Addams Family” offshoot starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday has officially become the third title to cross 1 billion hours viewed on Netflix within one month — only “Squid Game” and “Stranger Things” Season 4 have also done so to date.

This also means that “Wednesday” has passed Ryan Murphy’s “Dahmer” to become Netflix’s No. 2 most popular English-language series of all time. The company measures its Most Popular list based on each title’s viewership in its first 28 days of availability; “Dahmer” reached 856.2 million hours in that time, while “Wednesday” still has one more week to climb even higher. However, the series is now 352.1 million hours behind “Stranger Things” Season 4’s performance in its first 28 days, and with “Wednesday” racking up 269.7 million hours viewed during the Dec.