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Prime Video adapts Anne Holt’s ‘1222’ in Nordics with Nordic Drama Queens

Prime Video has ordered an adaptation of Anne Holt’s crime novel 1222 from Fifth Season-backed Nordic Drama Queens and Amazon MGM Studios. Blind Spot is being written by Sara Heldt (Sandhamn Murders) and Erik Skjoldberg (Occupied), with Prime Video taking rights in the Nordics. The four-parter will debut on the streamer in early 2025, with Fifth […]

Fox to share Prime Video show & snags ‘Baywatch’ remake

Fox has struck an innovative deal with Amazon Prime Video to secure rights to the streamer’s upcoming remake of The 1% Club, as well as unveiling a reboot of Baywatch. The arrangement with Prime Video will see Fox airing episodes of the BBC Studios format eight days after they are released on the streamer in […]

MGM+ names Michael Katzer as head of international

Amazon-owned streamer MGM+ has appointed Michael Katzer to become its head of international. Katzer is moving to London and will oversee all operations outside of the US, reporting into MGM+ Global’s general manager, Josh McIvor. He will work with execs across Amazon’s streaming operations, including Prime Video, as well as MGM’s US-based team. Kazter has […]

Prime Video to serve Roger Federer tennis doc based on ‘home video’ footage

Amazon streamer Prime Video is expanding its sports output with a new documentary exploring the final days of Roger Federer’s career, with Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy). The untitled doc, which will track the final 12 days of the tennis star’s professional career, is based on home video footage that was not initially intended to be […]

Amazon Prime Video restructures in Europe & slashes original efforts in Africa

Amazon Prime Video is slashing spending in Africa and the Middle East as part of an international restructuring that will see its European operations split in two. The reorganisation in Europe will see the creation of two distinct divisions, reporting into Barry Furlong, VP of Prime Video in EMEA. Execs in the UK, France, Germany, […]

Amazon’s Jon Wax joins Disney Entertainment to oversee int’l originals

Jon Wax has left Amazon to join Disney Entertainment as EVP of international original television. Wax most recently served as head of global TV content strategy for Prime Video and Amazon Studios and originally joined the company in 2019 to oversee genre development, responsible for Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, The Boys […]

Prime Video partners with Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips to adapt comic series ‘Criminal’

Amazon streamer Prime Video has ordered a series adaptation of Criminal, the graphic novel series created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, who will both serve as executive producers on the show. Criminal is an “interlocking universe of crime stories,” based on the original comic series that launched in 2006. Brubaker, who wrote the graphic […]

Amazon lands Disney exec ahead of Prime Video’s advertising push

Amazon has landed former Disney exec Jeremy Helfand to oversee Prime Video’s advertising push, while its global sports chief has stepped down. Ad chief Helfand previously worked at Disney’s part-owned US streamer Hulu before taking on an EVP role at the Mouse House, spending five years between the two companies. He will become VP & […]

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