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Prime Video greenlights ‘Cruel Intentions’ & renews cricket docuseries ‘The Test’

Amazon streamer Prime Video has given the greenlight to an eight-part series inspired by the 1999 movie Cruel Intentions, and renewed sports docuseries The Test for a third season. Sony Pictures Television, Amazon MGM Studios, and Original Film are producing the Cruel Intentions series, which will be helmed by series writers and exec producers Sara […]

Prime Video axes ‘Riches’, renews ‘Reacher’

Amazon streamer Prime Video has cancelled UK drama series Riches, while extending US actioner Reacher for as third instalment ahead of its season two premiere later this month. Riches was an ITV co-production with Amazon Studios, which joined the production in 2021, taking rights in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Nordics and Sub-Saharan […]

Amazon in development on ‘The Boys’ Mexico City spin-off, from ‘Blue Beetle’ scribe

A Spanish-language spin-off from The Boys is reportedly in the works for Prime Video, with a Mexico City-based entry in the superhero franchise in early development. Blue Beetle scribe Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer has been attached to write the initial script for the series, and to serve as executive producer, though few other details about the show […]

News round-up: CreativeChaos to adapt ‘This Is War’; Showtime orders ‘The World According To Football’; Prime Video & NRK acquire ’44 Hours’

 CreativeChaos to adapt ‘This Is War’ US prodco CreativeChaos has acquired the rights to adapt Polish author and activist Klementyna Suchanow’s nonfiction book This Is War: Women, Fundamentalists And The New Middle Ages. CreativeChaos co-dounders Tom Donahue and Ilan Arboleda will turn the book into a four-part docuseries following Suchanow’s transformation from author to activist in a sham trial for actions against […]

Amazon expands ‘Bosch’ franchise with greenlight for Renée Ballard spin-off

Amazon streamer Prime Video has given the greenlight to the previously announced spin-off from crime drama series Bosch that will center around the character of Detective Renée Ballard. Ballard is a character from author Michael Connelly’s Bosch books who has not yet appeared in either of the existing shows in the franchise, Bosch and Bosch: […]

TBI Tech & Analysis: Tapping into TV & streaming’s key trends for 2024

As the industry reflects on the trials and tribulations of 2023, Omdia analysts Rob Moyser and Matthew Evenson look at where the industry heading and pick out the key trends to watch across the next 12 months. Since 2019, the pay-TV and online video markets in Europe have experienced different fortunes. Minor increases in Eastern […]

Amazon, ESPN & CBS strike multi-year deals for National Women’s Soccer League coverage

Women’s sport is achieving growing recognition and interest from major streamers and networks as Amazon-owned Prime Video, Disney sports channel ESPN and Paramount’s CBS Sports have all struck multi-year rights deals with the US National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) for the upcoming 2024 season. Over the past few years, the National Women’s Soccer League has […]

Prime Video joins ‘The 1% Club’ in US & Canada

Prime Video has acquired the rights to BBC Studios’ game show format, The 1% Club for the US and Canada. This new adaptation will be produced for the Amazon-owned streamer by BBC Studios Los Angeles Productions and Magnum Media. The 1% Club tests the nation’s intelligence, based on a scientific survey. The entertainment format is not about what you […]