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Amazon Prime Video
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Amazon Prime Video to double Indian investment & unveils 40-strong slate
Amazon Prime Video is making a big push into India, with plans to more than…
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Amazon expands Canadian originals, with ‘Gary And His Demons’ revival & Tragically Hip docuseries
Amazon has greenlit four new Canadian originals, including a revival of the adult animation series…
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Amazon Prime Video ramps up French investment with seven new originals
Amazon Prime Video has greenlit seven new French Amazon Original productions, which the company said…
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ITV & Amazon Prime Video join ScreenSkills unscripted fund
UK broadcaster ITV and Amazon’s Prime Video have both signed up to the ScreenSkills Unscripted…
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Showrunners Insight: ‘Bombay Begums’ Alankrita Shrivastava
TBI has partnered with Mumbai- and LA-based talent and content management company Tulsea to get…
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Amazon to investigate ‘The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith’
Amazon Prime Video has commissioned true-crime docuseries The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith as…
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Amazon revives ‘Takeshi’s Castle’ in Japanese originals push & inks Carlton Cuse deal
Amazon Prime Video is rebooting the game show format Takeshi’s Castle as it expands its…
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Amazon hires ProSiebenSat.1 chief to lead streamer in Germany
Amazon has hired ProSiebenSat.1’s former MD Kaspar Pfluger to lead its Prime Video operation in…
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News round-up: Hulu & Amazon bite into ‘Reginald The Vampire’; HBO preps Jodie Comer drama; Rai orders political thriller
Hulu & Amazon bite into ‘Reginald The Vampire’ Disney-owned streamer Hulu and Amazon Prime Video…
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Amazon greenlights Harlan Coben’s ‘Shelter’ from MGM Int’l Productions
Amazon Studios has greenlit Harlan Coben’s Shelter, with soon-to-be in-house studio MGM producing. The show…
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Amazon snaps up outgoing BBC diversity boss Miranda Wayland
Amazon has hired BBC diversity head Miranda Wayland to work across Prime Video and Amazon…
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Amazon pledges $13m to support UK TV & film training and development
Amazon Prime Video has pledged £10m ($13.3m) to support training and development in the UK…
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Amazon begins production on Australian comedy original ‘Deadloch’
Amazon Prime Video has begun production on Deadloch, a new Australian original comedy series from…
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Amazon orders ‘Bake Off’ in Japan from Vesuvius & Beach House Pictures
Amazon Prime Video in Japan has acquired rights to BBC Studios (BBCS)’s well-travelled cookery format…
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Amazon strikes major UK studio deal with Shepperton
Amazon Prime Video has struck a major deal with Pinewood Group’s Shepperton Studios, securing it…
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News round-up: Amazon reaches for more ‘Reacher’; TVOkids blasts off with ‘Riley Rocket’; Apple TV+ gets ‘Sunny’ with Rashida Jones
Amazon reaches for more ‘Reacher’ Amazon Prime Video has renewed action thriller series Reacher for…
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Amazon Prime Video teams with Blue Ant for Kids in the Hall documentary
Amazon Prime Video has commissioned The Kids In The Hall: Comedy Punks, a two-part documentary…
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Netflix growth stalls in UK as Amazon Prime makes headway, says Kantar
Netflix’s growth in the UK is stalling, with Amazon Prime Video catching up and expected…
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Amazon targets Southeast Asia with more originals, acquisitions & expanded team
Amazon Prime Video is expanding its focus and operations in Southeast Asia, with plans to…
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BBC & C4 shows thrash Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ for viewers, according to new UK data
The BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off have beaten…
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Amazon Prime Video revs its engines for MotoGP docuseries
Amazon Prime Video has ordered a docuseries about the MotoGP World Championship, the international motorbike…
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Amazon seeks ‘The Consultant’ from ‘Servant’ creator Tony Basgallop
Amazon Prime Video has commissioned The Consultant, a new darkly comedic workplace thriller series, starring…
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TBI In Conversation: What ‘Mixte’ tells us about French production potential
Eleonore Dailly, co-founder of Mixte producer Autopilot Entertainment, tells TBI deputy editor Mark Layton about…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Exploring emotion in family’s SVOD subscriptions
Streamers are competing on all programming fronts to attract and retain subscribers, but families remain…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Breaking down US OTT live-streaming & on-demand trends
The way in which audiences consume content has changed dramatically over the last few years,…
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Amazon Japan adapting Oz comedy ‘No Activity’
Amazon Prime Video has commissioned a Japanese adaptation of Australian comedy No Activity as an…
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Amazon expands Italian reality push with Ferragnez series
Amazon Prime Video has commissioned a new Italian original reality show, The Ferragnez – The…
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Amazon expands UK originals slate with thriller ‘Wilderness’ & KSI doc from Louis Theroux
Amazon Studios has commissioned two new UK originals – psychological thriller Wilderness and a documentary…
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Left Bank starts filming on new Amazon crime series ‘Three Pines’
Left Bank Pictures has started production in Canada on new Amazon Prime Video crime series…
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Amazon & Discovery+ score David Beckham-backed Premier League docuseries
Amazon Prime Video has acquired the upcoming BBC2 football documentary series Fever Pitch! The Rise…