Credit : Netflix's X
LOS ANGELES, November 12, 2026 – Netflix will premiere Russell Brand: Open Secret, a documentary about the British comedian and broadcaster, on November 13, the company said in a post on X. The film, according to the official note, draws on inside voices and archive footage and follows an investigation published by The Times and The Sunday Times.
The streamer’s announcement, posted on Thursday, November 12, said the documentary “premieres tomorrow” on Netflix, which, in the United States and in Malaysia, is Friday, November 13, 2026. A still released with the post showed promotional artwork for the title. Netflix did not, in that message, name a director, a running time or a list of on-screen contributors, and those gaps are not filled in here from unofficial sources.
Brand has in recent years faced publicly reported allegations of sexual offences, which he has denied. Those allegations have been the subject of journalistic investigation, including the Times newspapers’ work cited by Netflix, and of legal process in Britain. This article does not treat any allegation as proved, does not repeat unverified claims, and does not adjudicate the underlying cases. The news being recorded is Netflix’s decision to put a documentary on that public controversy on its service on a named date, and the company’s own description of the film’s ingredients: participants with inside knowledge, archive material, and the Times investigation.
Documentaries of this kind often arrive after years of reporting, and after the subject has already been extensively covered in print and in court lists. An “open secret”, in the title’s phrasing, is a claim about how widely certain stories were known in the entertainment industry, not a verdict delivered by this newsroom. Viewers will be able to judge the film’s evidence and its framing once it is available. Until then, the responsible course is to be precise about what Netflix has actually said, and no more.
The premiere date coincides with a heavy week of other Netflix titles, but this project is distinct from the streamer’s fiction slate. It is a current-affairs documentary, tied to named newspapers, about a still-contested public figure. Anyone searching for a simple finding of guilt or innocence in the announcement will not find one. What they will find is a date, a title, a described method and a source investigation.
Life News Agency is publishing this account solely as a report of an official commissioning and scheduling decision. It should not be read as an endorsement of the film, as a finding of fact against Brand, or as a dismissal of the people who have made allegations. A promotional still issued with the post is the official image for the title, and it is the artwork that will be credited on the cover of this report. The Times investigation is cited by Netflix as a source for the film, not as a finding adopted in this article. Those matters belong to the courts, to the completed reporting of the newspapers named by Netflix, and to the documentary itself once it can be watched.
Source : Netflix, X post.
Credit : Netflix’s X
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