Netflix Reinstates Employees Who Had Been Suspended

Hannah Gadsby is speaking out.

The Closer.A Bloomberg report published on Wednesday (October 13) stated Netflix spent $24.1million on The Closer and $23.6million on the comedian’s 2019 special, Sticks & Stones, comparing them to the $3.9million spent for Bo Burnham’s Inside and Squid Game’s $21.4million.From internal documents seen by the publication, the Sticks & Stones special was measured as having an “impact value” of $19.4million by Netflix, meaning it cost more than the value it generated.In a statement released to NME, a Netflix spokesperson said: “We have let go of an employee for sharing confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company.

Now things are really getting messy.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNetflix has terminated an unidentified staff members who shared “commercially sensitive information” with a news organization, violating the streamer’s policies.“We have let go an employee for sharing confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to Variety.

Netflix‘s decision to keep Dave Chappelle’s special up on their platform.The stand-up special, called The Closer, features Chappelle addressing the controversy surrounding Harry Potter author JK Rowling.“They cancelled J.K. Rowling – my God,” Chappelle said in the show.

Hannah Gadsby is slamming Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos over his recent comments defending Dave Chappelle’s controversial stand-up special, “The Closer”.

Naman Ramachandran Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby has spoken out strongly against Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos after being referenced in his memo defending Dave Chappelle.“Adults can watch violence, assault and abuse – or enjoy shocking stand-up comedy – without it causing them to harm others,” Sarandos had said in a staff memo on Wednesday, as revealed by Variety. “We are working hard to ensure marginalized communities aren’t defined by a single story.

From the moment Netflix announced itself as an original programming player with House Of Cards, the streamer has been touting its great relationship with talent. That reputation has taken hit over the last week in the wake of Dave Chappelle’s controversial new special The Closer which has had top Netflix talent denounce the comedian’s comments about transgender people as well as Netflix’s support of Chappelle led by co-CEO Ted Sarandos.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThe second memo that Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos issued to Netflix staff about Dave Chappelle and stand-up comedy only proves that he doesn’t understand why people are actually upset about how Chappelle approaches transgender people in his new special “The Closer.” In his first response, Sarandos emphasized that even if “some people find the art of stand-up to be mean-spirited … our members enjoy it.” In the second, he again asserts Chappelle’s right to “artistic freedom.” In both, he underlines that neither he nor anyone with sign-off power at Netflix believe that Chappelle’s extensive material on transgender people crosses the line of being “designed to incite hate or violence” — and even if it did,

The Netflix/Dave Chappelle drama over his recent special, “The Closer,” doesn’t seem to be calming down anytime soon. And while Chappelle himself has stayed out of the discussion, the surprising villain that is seemingly coming out of this whole situation (in the eyes of the LGBTQ+ community, at least) is co-CEO Ted Sarandos, who unabashedly came out in support of Chappelle’s special, which many say contains transphobic material.

The controversy over Netflix’s Dave Chappelle special The Closer continued today with allegations that employees had raised concerns about the doc before it debuted, reports of a planned walkout next week by and in support of the company’s trans employees and a leaked memo from company co-CEO Ted Sarandos maintaining that violent or abusive content does not spur viewers to harm others.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterNetflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos sent a lengthy missive to the entire company following the mounting controversy around a new original special from comic Dave Chappelle.After addressing top leadership in a Friday memo, Sarandos sent an email on Monday to all staff — some of whom have increasingly expressed outrage over jokes about the trans community in Chappelle’s “The Closer,” and have scheduled a walkout protest as a response.“We know that a number of you have been left angry, disappointed and hurt by our decision to put Dave Chappelle’s latest special on Netflix,” Sarandos wrote in an email obtained by Variety.“With ‘The Closer,’ we understand that the concern is not about offensive-to-some content but titles

Ellise Shafer administratorTrans employees and allies at Netflix are planning a walkout on Wednesday, Oct. 20 in protest of CEO Ted Sarandos’ comments regarding Dave Chappelle’s new special “The Closer,” Variety has confirmed.As reported by The Verge, a leader of the streamer’s trans employee resource group wrote the following in a message to members: “Trans Lives Matter.

according to the Verge.The most prominent of the problems was the suspension of a trans senior software engineer, Terra Field, who slammed Chappelle for his humor against trans people in a viral Twitter thread.A source told The Post that Field was suspended not for the tweets but instead for intruding, along with two others, into an executives-only meeting.Field has since been reinstated “after finding there was no ill-intent” in her attendance, she posted.“I’m going to take a few days off to decompress and try to figure out where I’m at.

Netflix has reinstated three employees it suspended earlier this week.

J. Kim Murphy administratorNetflix has reinstated three employees, including a trans senior software engineer who criticized the streamer’s new Dave Chappelle comedy special, after suspending and investigating the group for crashing a meeting of its top executives.Terra Field, one of the suspended employees, shared her reinstatement by the company on her Twitter.

Netflix often gets congratulated for being a bastion of creative freedom, giving filmmakers and creators a chance to make whatever project they want, as long as it attracts eyeballs and subscribers. But sometimes that creative freedom can be seen as a bit of a problem, such as with the latest controversy with Dave Chappelle and his new comedy special, “The Closer,” which has caused outrage from folks that describe it as “transphobic.” But according to Netflix co-CEO, Ted Sarandos, the creative freedom of the streaming service goes both ways and protects folks like Chappelle.

told TMZ while heading to catch a flight Monday at LAX. “We were slaves to PC culture and he just, you know — as an artist he’s Van Gogh.

A top Netflix executive said Dave Chappelle’s special “The Closer” doesn’t cross “the line on hate” and will remain on the streaming service despite fallout over the comedian’s remarks about the transgender community.

The Closer.Chappelle has been heavily criticized for a number of jokes in the special, which released on Oct. 5, including saying he was “team TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) like author JK Rowling and calling gender “a fact.”“Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth,” Chappelle said.

Comedy great Damon Wayans is speaking out on the ongoing public schism surrounding Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special "The Closer" and said he believes Chappelle is "a unicorn" for standing up to "PC culture." "I feel like Dave freed the slaves — the comedians," the "Major Payne" actor, 61, told TMZ of Chappelle’s controversial Netflix special during a brief exchange at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Monday. "We were slaves to PC culture, and as an artist, he’s [Vincent] Van Gogh.