News brief: Amazon buys Back to the Present

Amazon has picked up Back to the Future doc special Back to the Present for its Prime Instant Video service in the UK.

The show is sold by Vivendi-owned London-based distributor Can’t Stop Media, which sealed the Amazon deal and also announced a raft of other deals earlier this week, including with History in the US.

The show was originally commissioned by French DTT channel D8 (part of the Vivendi-owned Canal+ group) and was the first order for AlloHouston, the fledgling factual and fact-ent production company run by Boris Hertzog and the former production team from Ouido.

Can’t Stop confirmed the UK deal, which was first reported in Broadcast.