Amazon will stream a Thursday night football pre-game show called “The Drive,” hosted by Charissa Thompson and Rachel Lindsay Thompson and Lindsay will interview two opposing players from each week’s Thursday Night Football match-up and share an insider’s look at how they prepare for the big game on and off the field The logline: “The Drive” […]
Amazon Studios has placed a 13-episode order for a drama series based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel “Daisy Jones & The Six” from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Circle of Confusion. The project will be a co-production between Amazon Studios and Hello Sunshine. “Daisy Jones & The Six” centers on a fictional rock band in the 1970s, following […]
Amazon has greenlit drama “The Man in the High Castle” for a fourth season, with the renewal coming more than two months before its third season opener on Friday, Oct. 5. Debuting on Jan. 15, 2015, the series is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. From Wipekedia: In the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
