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Amazon Studios is saying goodbye to another exec in the UK. Original Series Development Executive Thomas Drachkovitch is exiting after seven years in Amazon’s bases in cities such as LA, Mumbai and London, where he worked on the likes of Call My Agent! UK adaptation Ten Percent and Three Pines from Th…

Amazon Studios Europe’s content chief Georgia Brown is leaving the streamer after five years in the role. She will exit the business Wednesday, Amazon reps have confirmed. She is expected to land a new role, it is understood, though details aren’t forthcoming. The surprise move comes just a week after she presented…

Amazon’s push into true crime continues with several new UK originals unveiled here at the Edinburgh TV Festival today. Fake Sheikh and The Greatest Show Never Made come from Voltage TV and Factual Fiction, respectively, and will launch on the streamer next year. They will be joined by a previously announced ITN…

Prime Video’s latest Italian content showcase in a scorching hot Rome has lifted the lid on a 15-strong slate of drama series, movies, docs and entertainment shows, while revealing the commentary line up for its UEFA Champions League coverage. Among the Amazon streamer’s latest exclusive Italian content is a doc on…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios Europe Boss Georgia Brown has said “broadcasters and streamers were not investing enough in the non-scripted space” when she joined five years ago, as the SVoD prepares to unveil a suite of true crime docs with a variety of different tones. Speaking exclusively to Deadline after this…

Georgia Brown, Amazon Studio’s Director of European Originals, said that audiences have been increasingly turning to feature films on their service in the last few years and expressed plans for the company to beef up its film slate. Speaking in the penultimate conversation at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Thursday, the…

Georgia Brown, the director of European originals at Amazon Studios, is to become the advisory chair of the 2021 Edinburgh TV Festival. Brown is the first executive from a streaming company to take up the position, from which she will set the agenda and tone of the television biz’s annual gathering in Scotland. The…

Amazon has dismissed concerns that it is “lagging behind” streaming rivals including Netflix in the race for British content, telling UK lawmakers that its game plan is to nurture a much smaller curated slate of originals. Speaking to UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee on Tuesday, Amazon…

Amazon has urged producers to bring it more international non-scripted formats on the back of unveiling The Bachelor in Japan and Hunted in Italy. International content chiefs James Farrell and Georgia Brown opened up about what the SVOD service is looking for outside of the U.S. at a Deadline-moderated keynote at Mipc…

Amazon is "doubling down" on non-scripted programming in Europe and is looking to reinvent certain factual and entertainment genres. This comes after the SVOD announced its first scripted slate since Georgia Brown began leading the company out of London. Brown, speaking at a Deadline-moderated session at INTV in…

Amazon's European originals chief Georgia Brown and Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio are among the A-list names added to Keshet's INTV conference. Ari Greenburg, President of WME, Steve Golin, founder and CEO of Anonymous Content and COO Matthew Velkes, Erin Keating, Senior Development Manager of Snap Originals, Liza…