Netflix is bringing the ’80s back again, and this time with the help of Spike Lee. After months of speculation and anticipation, Lee’s TV adaptation of his 1986 indie film debut She’s Gotta Have It, will land on Netflix on Thanksgiving Day.
Spike Lee will direct the entire 10-episode season, which he and his wife Tonya Lewis Lee will also executive produce. Each episode will have a runtime of 30 minutes, according to IMDB. This is Lee’s first foray in television with Netflix, and it was was greenlit in September 2016.
The original movie was Lee’s first feature-length film and it was shot in only 12 days. Set in New York City during the sweltering summer of 1985, the film centered on Brooklyn-based artist Nola Darling struggling to balance her love, friends, and work lives. August 8 of this year will mark the film’s 30th anniversary.
The spirit of New York City was integral to the original film, and Lee has been working hard at preserving it while making the TV adaptation. Weeks after the series was greenlit, Lee began holding open casting calls in New York City. He ended up giving the lead role of Nola to up-and-coming actress DeWanda Wise, who graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, as did Lee himself.
This will be the second Netflix original Lee will helm this year. Lee directed Rodney King, the one-man show by Roger Guenveur Smith about the controversial police beating of Rodney King in 1992. Rodney King debuted on Netflix on April 28. Lee’s 2016 film Chiraq was also the first original film from Amazon Studios.
The success of the She’s Gotta Have It TV adaptation could bring to life another revival from Lee’s illustrious archives that the famous director has been trying to get back on the screen. Since early 2014, Lee has discussed making a sequel to his 1998 film He Got Game which starred Rosario Dawson, Denzel Washington, and NBA legend Ray Allen. Lee has stated Dawson and Allen are ready to do it, but Lee is still waiting on Washington to get on board before he writes the script.
The 20th anniversary for He Got Game will occur in May 2018. So let’s hope Netflix keeps the nostalgia fever going strong.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.