Janelle James’s First Hour-Long Special, How Romantic, Is on Netflix Today

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Tudum’s weekly “what to watch” list for the week of Nov. 6 puts How Romantic under Nov. 10 and calls it James’s debut hour-long stand-up special. The official title page uses the same framing, with James named as the performer. Both pages are from Netflix, so they are official confirmation, not two independent reports.

Deadline had the announcement on Oct. 19: a debut hour, a global Netflix premiere on Nov. 10, and a short credits list. James wrote, performed and executive produced the special. Matt Schuler is the producer, and Marcus Russell Price is the director. That Oct. 19 report is the independent account we are using alongside Netflix’s own pages.

James is best known on television as Ava Coleman, the principal on ABC’s Abbott Elementary. The special is a stand-up hour, not an extension of that series, and we are not folding other in-development projects into today’s news. The official sneak peek, titled Janelle James: How Romantic | Sneak Peek | Netflix, went up on the official Netflix YouTube channel at 1:00 p.m. ET on Oct. 19 and runs just over a minute.

We have not reviewed the special, and a sneak peek is not a substitute for that. The news today is simply that the hour is on Netflix. More television coverage is in TV & Streaming.