All Amazon articles – Page 50
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NewsHow Amazon secured the Top Gear team
Producer Andy Wilman’s full interview, which reveals the promise of a big budget and creative freedom sealed the deal for the SVoD service
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NewsAmazon hires European video chief
BT director of TV Alex Green is to become the European boss of Amazon Instant Video – the online service that yesterday struck a landmark deal with the former Top Gear team.
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NewsAndy Wilman lifts bonnet on Top Gear team’s Amazon deal
Andy Wilman has lifted the bonnet on the former Top Gear team’s landmark deal with Amazon Prime Video, explaining that they will be “left alone” to take the best of their old show and update it for a “new world” audience.
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NewsFive fast facts: Clarkson and co’s Amazon deal
Broadcast rounds up the key facts from the former Top Gear team’s landmark deal with Amazon Prime Video.
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NewsFormer Top Gear team to make series for Amazon
Amazon Prime Video has emerged as the surprise home of the new motoring show from Jeremy Clarkson and his former Top Gear team.
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NewsAmazon's Audible orders five audio pilots
Hunderby’s Kevin Eldon and Outnumbered’s Hugh Dennis are among the stars to have signed up to appear in a slew of comedy pilots from Amazon-backed digital audio service Audible.
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NewsLeft Bank pitches ‘Downton meets Deadwood’ to Amazon
The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures is in talks with Amazon about a “Downton Abbey meets Deadwood” drama.
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NewsAmazon returns to Ripper Street
Amazon Prime Instant Video has continued its push into originations by commissioning a further two series of period crime drama Ripper Street.
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NewsAmazon eyes international comedy push
MipTV: Amazon is to open its doors to international producers as it ramps up the amount of original comedy that it commissions.
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NewsAmazon grabs Outlander for UK
Amazon has acquired the UK rights to Left Bank Pictures’ sci-fi period drama Outlander.
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NewsAmazon nabs US Catastrophe rights
Amazon Prime Instant Video has secured the exclusive US rights to Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe.
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NewsAmazon adds US cable dramas
Amazon has acquired a raft of high-profile US cable dramas including 1980s period thriller Halt and Catch Fire.
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NewsAmazon’s Audible seeks drama and comedy
Amazon-backed digital audio service Audible is searching for original drama and comedy projects from traditional TV producers and writers.
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NewsAmazon explains Ripper Street slot
Amazon Prime Instant Video has revealed that its customers still want to consume content in a traditional way, and restated that its doors remain open to pitches from UK indies.
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NewsAmazon grabs DC Comics' Constantine
Amazon has acquired DC Comics’ Constantine adaptation in one of its most significant UK deals for first-run Hollywood content.
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NewsAmazon schedules Ripper Street weekly
Amazon has opted to schedule Ripper Street, its first UK commission, in a regular weekly slot rather than follow the Netflix model of releasing the entire series all at once.
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NewsAmazon pilots The Foundation & Brown Bag kids shows
UK kids producers The Foundation and Brown Bag Films have picked up pilots from online video streaming service Amazon.
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NewsAmazon to pilot Spotnitz drama
Amazon is piloting an adaptation of Philip K Dick’s novel The Man In The High Castle from Greenbird-backed UK indie Big Light Productions.
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NewsAmazon to remake Mad Dogs
Left Bank Pictures is to remake Sky 1 drama Mad Dogs for video-on-demand service Amazon.
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NewsAmazon Prime to chase UK first-run acquisitions
Amazon is ramping up its strategy to acquire exclusive, first-run content for the UK market after picking up Halle Berry sci-fi drama Extant.