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Prime Experience, Prime Video’s annual Emmy FYC activation, is back for its 2024 edition. Held at a new venue, NYA West, across the street from last year’s location, the event will let invited members of the Television Academy and Hollywood guilds get closer to some of Prime Video’s top series, movies and…

Amazon isn’t putting Fallout back in the vaults. The show from Kilter Films and executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy has been renewed for Season 2 at Prime Video, the streamer announced Thursday. According to Amazon, the series debuted to stellar viewership, ranking among the…

Travis Kelce has officially become a game show host. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is to host Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity?, a spinoff of Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?, for Amazon's Prime Video service. It comes after it emerged that the NFL star was in talks earlier this…

Longtime NBC ad sales executive Krishan Bhatia has landed at Amazon as VP, Global Video Advertising Sales, a new position for a new team within ad sales focused on streaming TV offerings across live sports, Amazon Freevee, Twitch, Prime Video ads, and third-party publishers. He'll be based in New…

EXCLUSIVE: One year ago we told you that a second season of John le Carré adaptation The Night Manager was quietly being developed under the codename Steelworks. Now, Deadline can reveal that the BBC and new co-pro partner Amazon have gone big on a supercharged two-season order of the thriller, with…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saluted the company’s progress in video advertising in his annual letter to shareholders. Overall ad revenue rose 24% in 2023 compared with 2022, he noted, reaching $47 billion and the growth was “primarily driven by our sponsored ads.” Amazon has added Sponsored TV to the mix…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Brearton is stepping down from Amazon, 18 months after taking on a new role. Brearton has been VP PVS Corporate Strategy, MGM+ and MGM Alternative Television, since November 2022. Brearton joined MGM as Chief Operating Officer in February 2018. He spent four years in that role…

EXCLUSIVE: Swiss distribution and production group Ascot Elite Entertainment has announced the start of shoot for Austrian filmmaker Gerald Salmina’s hi-octane sports doc and four-part mini series Downhill Skiers – Ain't No Mountain Steep Enough. The two-part production capturing the world of…

Cinema owners, studios and indie distributors gathering in Las Vegas this week for exhibition's biggest confab seek visibility into a theatrical landscape gut-punched by Hollywood strikes last year just as a post-Covid recovery was revving up. Production halted for months led to fewer releases on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon is revisiting one of the signature titles in her acting resume, taking it to a new medium. Witherspoon and her Hello Sunshine company are behind Legally Blonde spinoff TV series inspired by the popular film franchise that are in development at Amazon MGM Studios, sources tell…

Amazon and Lionsgate have struck a content deal in the UK. The partnership will see a wealth of Lionsgate and Starz content featured on Amazon streamer MGM+ including Outlander, Power Book and The Serpent Queen. It is the third instalment in a series of content deals that MGM+ has closed recently…

EXCLUSIVE: Maggie Q is set to headline Prime Video’s untitled Renée Ballard series, a Bosch spinoff about the LAPD's Cold Case Division. This marks the first series in Amazon MGM Studios’ Bosch franchise, inspired by the work of bestselling author Michael Connelly, that is not led by Titus Welliver…