Nordic Streamer Viaplay Launches on Amazon’s Prime Video Channels in U.S., Following Shutdown of Its Own Service

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Amazon wants to break down the barriers between watching TV and driving to the mall. The streaming giant on Tuesday unveiled a new suite of interactive ad formats it is making available for sponsors of its Prime Video subscription-video service.

Comic book universes can venture far from their core storylines in a bid to attract more viewers (*cough* Marvel) despite producing content that grows increasingly less relevant.  Creators expect an audience to continually binge on the newest adaptation or sequel to get the slightest morsel of a new character or narrative twist that may or may not ever materialize later on. Thankfully “The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke is well aware of that when talking about the upcoming season of the hit series.

Naman Ramachandran Season 3 of Prime Video‘s smash hit Indian show “The Family Man” has commenced filming. Manoj Bajpayee will once again portray the character of Srikant Tiwari, a middle-class Mumbai-based salaryman who is secretly an intelligence officer for the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC), a wing of India’s National Investigation Agency. In Season 3, Tiwari will confront a looming threat to national security, while balancing the demands of family life and desperately working to mend his relationship with his wife.

Naman Ramachandran Season 3 of Prime Video‘s smash hit Indian show “The Family Man” has commenced filming. Manoj Bajpayee will once again portray the character of Srikant Tiwari, a middle-class Mumbai-based salaryman who is secretly an intelligence officer for the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC), a wing of India’s National Investigation Agency. In Season 3, Tiwari will confront a looming threat to national security, while balancing the demands of family life and desperately working to mend his relationship with his wife.

Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel are set to lead the cast of an upcoming new series for Prime Video!

Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming service, has another renewal confirmed!

Jessica Biel (The Sinner) and Elizabeth Banks (Call Jane) will exec produce and star in The Better Sister, a thriller based on the novel by Alafair Burke. In a competitive situation, the project has landed at Prime Video with a series order. It hails from Tomorrow Studios, which will co-produce with Amazon MGM Studios.

Amazon’s Prime Video is so pleased with their upcoming Alex Cross series, Cross, they’ve renewed it for a second season.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Amazon raked in $11.82 billion in ad revenue for the first quarter of 2024, topping analyst expectations, fueled by the ecommerce giant’s move to serve advertising by default in Prime Video in multiple markets. Advertising sales for the quarter were up 24% year over year and marked a new Q1 record. The revenue beat Wall Street expectations for the quarter of $11.7 billion, according to StreetAccount.

Fallout has become Amazon Prime Video's second most-watched series of all time.

A rural town in Greater Manchester has been hailed a 'destination in its own right' by estate agents who say they have never seen it to be 'so popular' with buyers. Homes are 'flying off the shelf' right now in Royton, a former mill town which sits in the stretch of countryside between Oldham and the Pennine hills, so much so that its popularity has been recognised on a national scale.

Priyanka Chopra-Produced Doc Debuting On Prime Video India

Huge news for fans of the new series Fallout!

When it comes to jewellery, few pieces have become quite as iconic as Bottega Veneta’s Drop Earrings.They’ve been spotted on countless celebs including Kendall Jenner, Hailey Bieber and Rochelle Humes, and are instantly recognisable by their oversized gold curved shape (although you can get them in silver too). However if you want to copy the A-lister look for less, Marks and Spencer has just dropped its very own version with the Gold Maxi Tear Drop Studs, £14 here, which have a very similar size and shape to the luxury Bottega Veneta Small Drop Earrings, £560 here, making them a great affordable alternative.

Amazon’s Prime Video has made a few decisions regarding their original slate of TV shows.

Viaplay shut its direct-to-consumer service in February, but the Scandi streamer is still active in the U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor TikTok inked a partnership with ticketing provider AXS to let users of the popular video app discover and buy tickets to live events. The feature is going live initially in the U.S., U.K., Sweden and Australia, with additional markets to follow at an undetermined date. Now, any certified artist on TikTok can use the in-app ticketing feature to promote their AXS live dates, according to the company.

Callum McLennan Comedy docuseries “The World’s Strangest Jobs,” from Johannesburg-based Mannequin Pictures, one of South Africa’s key production, finance, and distribution companies, has sold to Prime Video the rights to the African continent. Mannequin is now pursuing sales in all other territories. The eight-part series is hosted by comedian and actor Schalk Bezuidenhout.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has acquired world rights for Beirut-set dramedy series Self Modulation from producers Falcon Films and Arna Media, in its first ever Arabic TV series acquisition.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saluted the company’s progress in video advertising in his annual letter to shareholders.