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Amazon Orders Untitled Just for Laughs Festival Docuseries

by Marc Berman June 13, 2018, 2:49 pm Comments are off
Amazon has greenlit an untitled docuseries in collaboration with the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, exclusively for Prime Video. The six-episode series will follow up-and-coming comedians in New York and Los Angeles as they compete to be selected for the “New Faces” showcase. “New Faces” is a launch pad for major comedic talent (including Kevin Hart, Amy […]

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Television Series Arriving on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime in December 2017

by Douglas Pucci November 27, 2017, 12:00 pm 1 Comment
New original and off-network series titles for the month of December will appear on the streaming video services Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. Among the highlighted streaming original series this month: the second season of Netflix’s award-winning British royal drama “The Crown” (Dec. 8); Jeffrey Donovan, formerly of “Burn Notice”, stars as a failed magician […]

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Jeffrey Tambor Quits Amazon’s ‘Transparent’

by Marc Berman November 19, 2017, 8:56 pm Comments are off
Jeffrey Tambor has announced he won’t return for the upcoming fifth season of “Transparent” after being accused twice of sexual harassment on the set of the Amazon show. Tamblr role as transgender woman Maura Pfefferman resulted in two Emmy Award wins for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. “Playing Maura Pfefferman on “Transparent” has […]

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Amazon Orders Superhero Series ‘The Boys’

by Marc Berman November 8, 2017, 1:04 pm 1 Comment
Amazon has greenlit original one-hour superhero drama “The Boys” for 2019, which centers on a group of vigilantes known informally as “the boys” who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty. Based on the comic book “Preacher” from creator Garth Ennis and […]

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Television Series Arriving on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime in November 2017

by Douglas Pucci October 28, 2017, 10:00 am 1 Comment
New original and off-network series titles for the month of November will appear on the streaming video services Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. Netflix will premiere its third Marvel series this year with “The Punisher” (Nov. 17) with Jon Bernthal as vigilante antihero Frank Castle. The character was earlier introduced in the second season of […]

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Amazon Cancels Drama ‘The Last Tycoon’

by Marc Berman September 11, 2017, 7:00 am Comments are off
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 […]

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Amazon Renews ‘Transparent’ for Season Five

by Marc Berman August 24, 2017, 12:04 pm Comments are off
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 […]

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