Carnival Row


Amazon expands ‘Carnival Row’ but axes ‘Lore’ and ‘The Romanoffs’

Amazon has ordered a second season of its Orlando Bloom-starring drama Carnival Row before the first has even launched, but cancelled four of its other scripted series. Carnival Row, which is set in a Victorian fantasy world, will debut on the streaming service on August 30 and stars Bloom and Cara Delevingne. It follows a […]

Making Amazon tick

Amazon’s original content strategy is a risk but could pay off in a big way, analysts and producers say. Over the last year Amazon has bolstered its video content library through investment in both acquisitions as well as original programming. Ampere Analysis estimates that by the end of 2017, the e-retail giant will have spent […]

Amazon heads to Carnival Row with Legendary

Subscription VOD service Amazon has greenlit a neo-Victorian fantasy drama Carnival Row. The original one-hour drama will be a neo-noir set in a neo-Victorian city that follows a string of unsolved murders that threatened an easy peace that exists in which mythical creatures fleeing their war-torn homeland have gathered together. Legendary Television is attached as […]

Amazon bags first French dramas

Amazon Prime Video has acquired French dramas for the first time, as speculation over an international SVOD launch grows. The platform has bought The Bureau, which comes from Federation Entertainment and The Oligarchs Productions, and Baron Noir, which Eric Benzekri and Jean-Baptiste Delafon created. This comes soon after the European Commission indicated plans to force […]