UPDATED with news of House committee probe. The Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee plans to investigate giant tech companies, a development that follows reports over the weekend that Google and Amazon are about to get closer regulatory scrutiny. The committee promises a “bipartisan look at competition in…

Amazon has set an August 30 premiere for its Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne-fronted fantasy drama Carnival Row. The SVOD service has also posted the first, short teaser for the series, which comes from Rene Echevarria, Travis Beacham and Legendary Television. The eight-part series is set in a Victorian fantasy…

On Sam Esmail's Homecoming, cinematographer Tod Campbell looked long and hard for his "Kubrick shot," standing on the shoulders of giants. A paranoid thriller in the vein of The Conversation, the Amazon series owed a debt to the cinema titan, drawing equal inspiration from the creeping zoom shots of Brian De…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has put in development La Fresa, an action comedy from Girlboss creator Kay Cannon, up-and-comer Michele Grogin, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures and Sony TV, where Cannon and Laverne McKinnon’s K&L Productions is based. Co-written by Cannon and Grogin, La Fresa is an action comedy…

EXCLUSIVE: Mindy Kaling’s comedy Late Night, which she stars in, wrote and produced, will now go wide in theaters June 14 instead of June 7. Those in New York and Los Angeles will still be able to see the Amazon Studios film in its exclusive run June 7. The film played like gangbusters at Sundance, where Amazon…

British broadcasters BBC and Channel 4 have revealed that the rise of SVOD services including Netflix and Amazon has lead to rising production and talent costs in the UK television sector. The rising cost of drama production has been laid out by both broadcasters in their submission to the House of Lords…

EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars fan favorite Ian Harding is set as a series regular opposite Whitney Cummings in Good People, Amazon's half-hour comedy pilot from Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and 2 Broke Girls co-creator Cummings, Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios. Written by Daniels and Cummings, Good Peopl…

EXCLUSIVE: Felisha Terrell (Shooter) and Dustin Ingram (Watchmen) are set to recur opposite John Cusack, Sasha Lane and Rainn Wilson in Utopia, Amazon's straight-to-series adaptation of the British drama, written by Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn. Utopia follows a group of young adults who meet online…

Martin Short has signed on to the cast of Good People, Amazon's half-hour comedy pilot from Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and 2 Broke Girls co-creator Whitney Cummings — who also stars — Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios. In addition to Cummings, he joins previously announced Lisa Kudrow and Greg…

Bryan Cogman, who is coming off eight seasons of Game of Thrones, most recently as a co-executive producer, is heading to another fantasy series, joining Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series, Deadline has learned. The move to LOTR follows Cogman’s overall deal he signed with Amazon Studios last September. Cogman…

The Crown producer Andy Harries has claimed that the "power of British television has essentially moved to L.A." with the growth of streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon. But the founder of Sony-owned Left Bank Pictures said he was still "optimistic" about public service broadcasting in the UK from the likes…

Friends alumna Lisa Kudrow is set to star in and executive produce Good People, Amazon’s half-hour comedy pilot from Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and 2 Broke Girls co-creator Whitney Cummings, Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios. Written by Daniels and Cummings, Good People revolves around three generations…