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Fleabag was among the winners announced tonight at the 2019 TCA Awards, with the Amazon comedy topping three categories, including program of the year. In the drama categories, AMC's Better Call Saul picked up the award for best series. The achievement in movie or miniseries award went to HBO's Chernobyl. Dan Reed’s…

Jeff Bezos sold nearly 1 million shares of Amazon stock in the last three days of July, according to SEC filings, in the wake of his divorce being finalized. While the shares are worth about $1.8 billion, the 12% of Amazon that Jeff Bezos still controls means he remains the world’s richest person. His net worth after…

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…

Woody Allen's multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Amazon isn't dead, but it is definitely wounded. In a dense ruling released Wednesday on a motion by the Jeff Bezos-founded streamer to toss Allen’s February 7-filed complaint, a federal judge in New York firmly sliced off a good portion of the Oscar winner's claims…

Jennifer Salke, Vernon Sanders and Albert Cheng, the troika leading Amazon Prime Video’s streaming operation, all hail from broadcast television. (Salke and Sanders recently worked at NBC and Cheng at ABC.) Ratings data, in their longtime former world, is the coin of the realm. But when they arrived at Amazon, they…

Amazon is to launch its rotoscope animation series Undone on September 13 and has dropped a new trailer. The SVOD service will launch the series, which takes inspiration from Philip K. Dick and Pink Floyd, in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, The first two episodes of the Amazon Original series got a…

It's the end of the line for two more shows at Amazon; horror anthology series Lore and Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph-fronted comedy Forever have both been cancelled. Neither is a huge surprise given that both shows aired back at the end 2018, but both are now officially dead, with the news emerging at TCA, where…

Modern Love, Amazon Prime’s new romantic comedy anthology series from John Carney, will stream on Oct. 18. The series is based on the popular New York Times column of the same name, and explores all the different facets of amour. Here at TCA today was Cristin Milioti who appears in an episode about a young women…

Orlando Bloom was at the TCA summer press tour to promote a forthcoming big-budget fantasy drama for Amazon. However, while the SVOD service teased some crew news on the TV adaptation of Lord of the Rings, Bloom was on stage to talk up Carnival Row. But Bloom did reveal that Peter Jackson was prescient during the…

James Farrell, head of international originals for Amazon Studios, said during a TCA summer press tour panel Saturday that hopes are high for The Family Man, an action drama launching in September. India as both seedbed for storytelling and emerging commercial marketplace is a territory Amazon has long been committed…

The creator and cast behind Amazon's forthcoming big-budget fantasy drama Carnival Row defended the fact that the show went through a number of reshoots. Orlando Bloom, who stars as human detective Rycroft Philostrate in the eight-part drama alongside refugee faerie Vignette Stonemoss Cara Delevingne, called the…

Amazon has unveiled a teaser trailer for its fantasy drama Carnival Row – set to Billie Eilish's Bury A Friend. The SVOD service is set to launch the Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne-fronted series on August 30 but you can watch the clip below. It is set to Eilish's third single, Bury A Friend, from her debut album…