EXCLUSIVE: The Good Place‘s William Jackson Harper is set for a recurring role on Amazon's The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins' adaptation of Colson Whitehead's bestselling novel, from Jenkins' PASTEL and Brad Pitt's Plan B,
The story centers on young Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell…
One of the biggest cliffhangers in episodic TV right now is what’s next for multi-hyphenate Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the wake of her awesome two-season 11-Primetime Emmy nominated BBC/Amazon series Fleabag?
It’s a question that’s driving network executives quite mad. Ya see, there isn’t a third season of…
Amazon's series adaptation of The Wheel of Time has added five actors to its cast opposite lead Rosamund Pike. Madeleine Madden, Marcus Rutherford, Barney Harris, Zoë Robins and Josha Stradowski will co-star in the adaptation of Robert Jordan's fantasy epic.
Set in a sprawling, epic world where magic exists and only…
EXCLUSIVE:Amazon Studios is expanding its relationship with Lauren Oliver and her Glasstown Entertainment, closing a new first-look deal with the New York Times bestselling author who penned Panic, the book on which Amazon’s first YA drama series is based. Under the pact, Glasstown Entertainment, co-founded by…
Amazon Studios has struck an overall deal with The Witcher and Jessica Jones writer and producer Jenny Klein. It is the latest overall deal in recent weeks for the SVOD service following overall deals with Lena Waithe and Goliath showrunner Larry Trilling.
Klein is set to serve as a co-exec producer on Amazon's…
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has signed an overall deal with Goliath showrunner Larry Trilling.
It marks the latest overall deal by the SVOD service, which revealed earlier this week it had closed an overall deal with Lena Waithe.
Trilling became showrunner of the legal drama Goliath in season two, replacing Dexter's…
Jeff Blackburn, who as Amazon’s SVP Business and Corporate Development is the key executive overseeing the company’s streaming service and is seen as one of Jeff Bezos’ core advisers, is taking a one-year sabbatical beginning next year.
An Amazon spokesperson said the 21-year Amazon veteran, frequently on watchers…
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has struck a first-look deal with Brightstar, the London-based production company founded by The Crown producer Tanya Seghatchian and Cold War producer John Woodward.
It is the latest first-look deal by the SVOD service revealed this week and one of its first with British production talent…
It was announced today at TCA that Amazon’s Transparent musical finale will drop on Sept. 27 on Prime.
For quite some time, Jill Soloway wanted to create a musical with her sister Faith, a writer and consulting producer on the show.
“What we went through over the past couple of years, we needed to find a new way to…
Good Omens, which became one of Amazon Prime Video’s front-rank shows when it premiered last May, will continue on the streaming service if the executive team has any say in it.
“We’re lucky to have an ongoing relationship with Neil” Gaiman, the series co-creator, Amazon’s TV co-head Vernon Sanders said during…
Prolific creator-producer Lena Waithe has closed an overall deal with Amazon Studios. She has three series on the air, including the upcoming Amazon horror anthology Them.
Emmy winner Waithe is among the slew of A-list showrunners who have been shopping mega overall deals over the past seven months. Her Amazon pact is…
