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Netflix Schedules Three Rob Lowe Projects for Holiday Season

The slate signals Netflix is using a celebrity-led cluster of film, documentary and video-podcast content to drive holiday viewing.

Overview

  • Netflix announced Tuesday that it will release a Chris Smith-directed documentary, a holiday film and video episodes of Rob Lowe’s podcast across late November and early December.
  • The documentary, Rob Lowe: The Outsider, will premiere on Nov. 24 and traces Lowe’s career from his breakout roles to his Emmy-nominated work on The West Wing.
  • The previously announced holiday comedy In a Holidaze, starring Lowe, will debut globally on Dec. 2.
  • Literally! With Rob Lowe will make its Netflix video debut on Dec. 3 with new weekly video episodes and more than 30 library episodes added to the service.
  • The podcast deal is a formal partnership with SiriusXM that places video episodes on Netflix while keeping audio distribution on the SiriusXM Podcast Network, a move that preserves current audio listeners and gives fans new visual access to the show.