Netflix’s VP of acquisitions Amy Reinhard (pictured, below) has told TBI that when NBCUniversal’s deal for The Office expires in 2021, the global SVOD will come to the negotiating table for the comedy. Reinhard’s comments come just a week after NBC revealed it would be launching its own streaming platform, prompting questions as to whether […]
Amazon Prime Video has boarded a first high-end drama from All3Media, which is producing for its backer, cable giant Liberty Global. The Feed will go out in the US, Canada and Latin America as an Amazon exclusive with Liberty-owned Virgin Media airing it in the UK as its debut scripted original. Other Liberty cable services […]
Amazon Prime Video has acquired exclusive rights to Sony thriller drama Absentia in various territories. Amazon has bought rights to the Masha Productions drama in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore and South Korea among others. Absentia went out on Sony Pictures Television Networks-owned AXN channels to good ratings in Iberia […]
Amazon Prime Video has acquired exclusive US rights to ITV drama Fearless. All six episodes of the Mammoth Screen-produced show will debut on the SVOD platform on Friday, October 27. Fearless stars Helen McCrory (Peaky Blinders) as a ballsy human rights lawyer attempting to prove the innocence of a convicted child killer, and the web […]
Amazon has picked up BBC Worldwide and AMC drama McMafia for more than 200 territories, excluding the UK, US, Canada and China. Amazon Prime Video will premiere the series when it launches in 2018. McMafia will star James Norton (Happy Valley) as an English-raised son of Russian exiles with a mafia history past who is […]
Amazon Prime Video has snapped up rights to big-budget, high-concept Starz drama American Gods in four territories. Its deal with distributor FremantleMedia International covers the UK, Germany, Austria and Japan, and will see the series made available to subscribers in 2017. FMI has been heavily promoting the series internationally after setting up the series with […]
Amazon will show a raft of shows from the PBS Kids service after striking a content deal with the publicly-funded US broadcaster. The streaming service has inked a multiyear deal with PBS Distribution that gives excusive premium rights to titles including Nature Cat (pictured) and Jet Go! As well as continued access to shows such […]
Amazon Prime Video has acquired Starz drama The Girlfriend Experience. The deal covers the UK, Germany, Austria and Japan, with the series debuting yesterday in the first three and the latter later this year. The Girlfriend Experience follows Riley Keough as a law student who becomes drawn into the world of escorting and transactional relationships. […]
Amazon has picked up buzzy US drama Preacher for its Prime Instant Video service in the Europe. Several other streaming and pay TV deals have also been inked for the show. The series launches on US cable net AMC this Sunday and will launch on Amazon as an SVOD exclusive internationally a day after. Instalments […]
Amazon Prime Instant Video has taken exclusive US streaming rights to broadcast network CBS’s next three summer event series. Amazon has licensed all of CBS’s previous summer drama originals, Under the Dome, Extant and Zoo, and will now get the efforts for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 seasons. CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves has previously […]
