Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos has described the Child Reindeer debate as “uniquely British.”
The saga, which has seen Netflix sued for $170M by the ‘real-life Martha’ over her depiction within the Emmy-winning present, has seen a lawsuit filed within the U.S.
However Sarandos posited that the talk across the present is “not taking place wherever else on the planet.”
Pushed on the “true story” ingredient of the present, which has landed it in such sizzling water, Sarandos instructed RTS London that Child Reindeer “is just not a documentary, there are components which can be dramatized.”
“We’re watching it carried out by actors on TV, we predict that’s abundantly clear that there’s dramatization concerned,” he added.
He was talking as Netflix unveiled a first-look take care of creator Richard Gadd, who scooped an Emmy over the weekend for the smash hit, which has nonetheless been vastly controversial.
Reiterating earlier feedback, Sarandos referred to as Child Reindeer “Richard Gadd’s true story,” including: “We’re facilitating storytellers to inform their tales.”
Home windows not vital
Throughout a wide-ranging RTS keynote, Sarandos dismissed windowing as one thing that “audiences don’t care about in any respect” within the present panorama.
As he tried to place Netflix as being audience-first above all else, the top of the streamer, who’s within the UK keynote-ing the RTS London, stated that “the TV enterprise was constructed on windowing” however “you don’t hear [audiences] speak about it at dinner.”
Chatting with a the great-and-good of the UK TV business, together with quite a few producers and broadcasters, Sarandos dismissed the likes of rights and distribution as “vital, however what issues is how we serve the viewers.”
“We now have to place audiences first,” he added. “Give it some thought not as critics, not as media execs however from the attitude of a fan.”
Sarandos acknowledged “there may be a lot of nervousness and concern” within the sector at current, in areas corresponding to “falling funding and AI,” however stated he’s “optimistic concerning the future” as he mulled that the leisure enterprise goes by one other monumental, structural change.
Sarandos was addressing RTS London, with the likes of David Beckham, Steven Knight and Tim Davie talking later.
