{"id":812243,"date":"2024-12-16T20:49:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T02:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/netflix-roku-pick-up-wham-doc\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T20:49:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T02:49:03","slug":"netflix-roku-pick-up-wham-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/netflix-roku-pick-up-wham-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix &#038; Roku Pick Up Wham! Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\">Netflix<\/a> and Roku have taken U.S. rights on the BBC and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/blink-films\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blink-films\" data-tag=\"blink-films\">Blink Films<\/a>\u2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/wham\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wham\" data-tag=\"wham\">Wham!<\/a> doc, which airs tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>WHAM!: Last Christmas Unwrapped<\/em> has been acquired from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sony\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sony\" data-tag=\"sony\">Sony<\/a> Pictures Entertainment by Netflix and Roku for audiences in the U.S., SBS for Australia and TV New Zealand. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe doc tells the story of how <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/george-michael\/\" id=\"auto-tag_george-michael\" data-tag=\"george-michael\">George Michael<\/a> and Andrew Ridgeley\u2019s beloved \u201980s duo turned one song into a cultural phenomenon. It launches tomorrow on the BBC and the following day in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/wham-doc-last-christmas-trailer-george-michael-andrew-ridgeley-1236195147\/\">We unveiled trailer late last week<\/a>, which can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDirected by BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated Nigel Cole (<em>Calendar Girls, Made in Dagenham<\/em>), the show includes an exclusive broadcast of Michael performing \u201cLast Christmas\u201d at Wembley Arena in December 2006 along with never before seen outtakes from the original 35mm music video footage. It will also reunite some of the group of friends from the original music video, set against the snow-covered backdrop of Saas-Fee in Switzerland. Interviewees include Mary J Blige, Bob Geldof, Neil Tennant and Sam Smith, who give their views on the song\u2019s themes of unrequited love and loss.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped<\/em>, produced by Blink Films and Sony Music Entertainment in association with Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael Entertainment, will air tomorrow on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/wham-george-michael-netflix-1236202727\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Max Goldbart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix and Roku have taken U.S. rights on the BBC and Blink Films\u2018 Wham! doc, which airs tomorrow. WHAM!: Last Christmas Unwrapped has been acquired from Sony Pictures Entertainment by Netflix and Roku for audiences in the U.S., SBS for Australia and TV New Zealand. The doc tells the story of how George Michael and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":812244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1798,499],"tags":[6275],"class_list":{"0":"post-812243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-netflix","9":"tag-netflix"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}