Lifestyle | Netflix Netflix Going After Original TV Series Hopes to be the first to air new David Fincher/Kevin Spacey show By Kevin Spak Posted Mar 16, 2011 8:07 AM CDT Copied In this Nov. 24, 2010 file photo, a Netflix customer holds her movies she rented, at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file) Is Netflix the next HBO? The company’s in talks to be the first to distribute a new original series directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. Netflix is reportedly prepared to pay more than $100 million for 26 episodes of the series, a political drama called House of Cards based on a British miniseries. It would stream on Netflix before showing up on any other outlet, but afterward, the company financing it could make other deals for TV broadcasts or DVD releases. Read These Next Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. Musk says his new party is in business. See the best BBQ cities in the US. A space capsule carrying ashes of 160 people crashed in the ocean. Report an error