Amazon has opted against a second of F. Scott Fitzgerald drama “The Last Tycoon.” Debuting on June 16, “The Last Tycoon” starred Kelsey Grammer, Matt Bomer, and Jennifer Beals, and followed the power struggle between Bomer’s wunderkind studio executive Monroe Stahr and his boss, Grammer’s studio head Pat Brady, in 1930s Hollywood. Nine episodes in total […]
Amazon Studios has greenlit a fifth season of dramedy “Transparent” before its fourth season premiere (on Sept. 22), with an expected 10 new episodes for 2018. The entire Pfefferman family will be back including Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light, Gaby Hoffmann, Jay Duplass and Amy Landecker. Debuting on Feb. 6, 2014, “Transparent” revolves around a Los […]
Amazon Studios has greenlit “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” from “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino for an unprecedented two seasons on Prime Video. Written and directed by Sherman-Palladino, the series stars Rachel Brosnahan (“House of Cards”) as Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a 1958 New York City woman who has everything she’s ever wanted — the perfect husband, […]
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For the 2017 NFL season, Amazon will be the official live streaming service for the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football,” as first reported by Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand on Tuesday, Apr. 4. Amazon and NFL agreed to a one-year deal to livestream the 10 “TNF” games carried by CBS and NBC on television, beating out […]
Amazon is developing a new half-hour comedy called “Late Bloomers,” which will center around a married couple in their 40s who are selected to participate in a human trial for an experimental drug therapy. The drug purports to be able to stop the aging process, and the couple quickly finds out how extending their life […]
Netflix was the dominant streaming service among the top 50 shows of the past 19 months, according to research company Symphony Advanced Media‘s data of the first 35 days from each series’ respective release dates. The fourth season of Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” led all original streaming series, averaging slightly over 23 million […]
New original and off-network series titles for the month of December will appear on the streaming video services Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. One of the year’s biggest launches on streaming was back in February with Netflix’s “Fuller House,” the update to the classic family sitcom from 1987-95. Its entire second season starts on Dec. […]
