Saturday, July 20, 2013

Television opens the doors of his party at Netflix series - The Observer

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With the announcement of the nominees for the 65th edition of the Emmy Awards, which celebrate the best of television, there was no doubt that the medium is at a transformation of its consumer paradigm.

is that this year, members of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences of the United States decided to recognize with 13 nominations in all three series broadcast on Netflix, the online video service that offers movies and television series streaming .

So political drama House of Cards is the first program created for the web and televised not to be recognized among the major categories. The series starring actor Kevin Spacey won nine nominations including the categories of Best Actor, Actress and Director of a Drama Series.

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Breaking Bad , Downton Abbey , Game of Thrones , Homeland and Mad Men .

turn, the fourth season of Arrested Development , another series issued on Netflix and originally broadcast on the Fox network, received three nominations, including Best Actor in a Series comedy.

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, a horror thriller, garnered two nominations in the technical categories.

“The number of awards this morning was a shock to everyone,” he told The New York Times the director of content from Netflix, Ted Sarandos.

“We do not plan a party big enough yet,” he joked.

According to Huffington Post, Netflix has been investing millions of dollars in creating original content in an effort to attract subscribers, who pay a monthly fee of $ 7.99 for the service (in Uruguay is also enabled).

Now the challenge for the company will convert the positive critical reception on a path to new subscribers.

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