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Amazon Prime Video
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Sony’s anime service joins Amazon Channels UK line-up
Sony Pictures Television’s anime service, FunimationNow, has joined the Amazon Prime Video Channels line-up in…
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Amazon rules out Prime Video AVOD plans
Amazon has said it has no plans to launch an ad-supported version of its Amazon…
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Amazon names head of international originals
Amazon has appointed James Farrell as its head of international originals. In the newly created…
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Amazon greenlights Burnett’s Eco-Challenge, partners with Neil Gaiman
Amazon Studios has greenlit a revival of competition series Eco-Challenge from Survivor creator Mark Burnett and…
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Amazon strikes overall deal with Handmaid’s Tale director
Amazon has struck an overall deal with The Handmaid’s Tale director Reed Morano. Morano, who…
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Amazon hires ex-Eurodata exec for EMEA
Amazon Prime Video has hired former Eurodata exec Sahar Baghery as senior business development executive…
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Amazon beefs up drama slate
Amazon Prime Video has announced a number of new shows aimed at consolidating the service’s…
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Amazon snaps up rights to Witherspoon’s Daisy Jones
Amazon Studios’ Jennifer Salke says the streaming service has agreed a pre-emptive series order for…
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FilmRise acquires SVOD rights to classic CHiPs series
Distribution and streaming company FilmRise has acquired the exclusive US SVOD rights to the classic…
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Vodafone UK to offer Amazon Prime services
Vodafone UK has teamed up with Amazon to become the first UK mobile company to…
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Flame inks factual deal with Amazon via Janson Media partnership
Flame Distribution has announced a deal with digital distributor Janson Media to bring a package…
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Amazon Studios appoints Vernon Sanders as co-head of TV
TV industry veteran Vernon Sanders has been drafted in as co-head of television at Amazon…
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Amazon gives Maradona original the greenlight
Amazon Prime Video has greenlit a new Prime Original series based on the life of…
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Amazon Prime picks up Indian dating show Hear Me. Love Me.
Amazon Prime Video is to bring original reality series Hear Me. Love Me. to its…
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Amazon gains Euro rights for Disney titles
Amazon is launching two new series exclusively for Prime Video as part of a new…
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Amazon greenlights Spielberg and Bardem miniseries
Amazon Studios has greenlit a straight-to-series order of a four-hour miniseries based on the epic…
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Amazon pushes further into All or Nothing territory
Amazon Prime Video is gearing up for the latest editions of its sports doc series…
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Amazon welcomes ABC’s American Idol back to the UK
Amazon Prime Video UK has secured exclusive rights to ABC’s rebooted American Idol. The UK…
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Amazon scores La Liga football docu-series
Amazon Prime Video has greenlit Six Dreams, a sports docu-series that follows six individuals throughout…
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Global SVOD subs will hit 450 million in four years
The rise of subscription on-demand services seems unstoppable. The number of households worldwide that pay…
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Amazon adapts space opera novel Consider Phlebas
Amazon Prime Video is set to adapt Iain M. Banks (pictured) novel Consider Phlebas with…
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Amazon Prime brings in first French original
Amazon Prime Video is teaming up with Newen (through its Telfrance subsidiary), Bavaria Fiction and…
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Amazon gains multi-territory rights to CBS drama The Good Fight
Amazon Prime Video and CBS Studios International have signed a multi-season, licensing agreement for the…
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Kagan: European SVOD revenues to reach $6.8bn in 2022
The European subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) market is due to reach revenues of US$6.8 billion in…
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TBI Weekly: Brand power could hold key for the future of TV
This week, it’s become clear that simply having quality content is no longer enough to…
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Amazon joins first All3-produced Liberty Global drama
Amazon Prime Video has boarded a first high-end drama from All3Media, which is producing for…
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Amazon develops Western with Arnie
Amazon Studios is developing a Western drama set in the 1800s with former California governor…
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Amazon usurps Hulu Japan as exclusive HBO home
Amazon Prime Video’s Japanese wing has struck a deal to bring major HBO titles such…
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Amazon cancels comedies One Mississippi, I Love Dick
Amazon is continuing its purge of comedies, now ridding of One Mississippi, I Love Dick…
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Opinion: tech is game for TV takeover
With analysts this week claiming sports remains the critical factor in pay TV subscriptions, Iain…