Fremantle has announced it has acquired global production rights to the mega-hit original Japanese format, Freeze. Originally developed and produced by FANY Studio and Yoshimoto Kogyo for Amazon Prime Video, the unique high-energy comedic game show has been entertaining audiences for two seasons and is now ready to go global. Freeze is a comedy entertainment game show, where contestants battle it out for a grand prize. In this unique show, the rules of the game are simple – players enter a … [Read more...] about Fremantle acquires global production rights for original comedy Japanese format Freeze
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yes Studios’ award-winning series Shtisel to launch on Amazon Prime
yes Studios has announced that Shtisel, the popular and multi-award-winning drama that helped launch the international careers of Shira Haas (Bodies, Unorthodox and yes Studios’ upcoming Night Therapy) and Michael Aloni (Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, Scenes from a Marriage), is being made available on Amazon Prime Video in the US. The deal is for all three seasons (33 x 45’), with season one debuting on the platform tomorrow, 16th January. This news comes hot on the heels of Shtisel also … [Read more...] about yes Studios’ award-winning series Shtisel to launch on Amazon Prime
Blue Ant Media announces New Kids, Family and Animation Projects
Blue Ant Media announced today its latest kids, family and animation content offering, set to debut at MIPCOM this Fall, as part of the company’s first market appearance as a combined studio with marblemedia and Distribution360. The line-up includes Davey & Jonesie’s Locker, a new live action teen comedy, season two of Roku’s first-ever adult animated series, Doomlands and two key development projects: Armadillo Avalanche, an animated action comedy and Generation Mars, a gripping family … [Read more...] about Blue Ant Media announces New Kids, Family and Animation Projects
OUTtv launches US channel with Amazon Prime Video
OUTtv, the leading LGBTQ+ television and streaming service, is launching a channel on Amazon Prime US, available as an add on to Prime Video subscribers. The channel is an extension of OUTtv’s partnership with Amazon Prime in Canada and Australia, where OUTtv has been available as a channel since 2021. The service launched May 9 2023 and is available to Amazon Prime subscribers for $3.99 a month, with a 7-day free trial. OUTtv subscribers via Amazon Prime Video will be able to enjoy day and date … [Read more...] about OUTtv launches US channel with Amazon Prime Video
Beyond Productions experiments with Mind Games for global release on Amazon Prime Video
Beyond Productions, a Banijay company, announced that its new feature documentary, Mind Games – The Experiment, will drop globally on Amazon Prime Video on the 19th of January. Narrated by Stephen Fry, Mind Games – The Experiment captures an international, ground-breaking study that follows sedentary and physically inactive gamers from across the globe to see if exercise can take their game to the next level by improving cognitive function, mental performance - and hopefully their global gaming … [Read more...] about Beyond Productions experiments with Mind Games for global release on Amazon Prime Video
All3Media International releases first-look images for Hugo Blick’s ‘The English’ for BBC and Amazon
Captivating first-look images released on August 18 reveal Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place, Sicario) as Lady Cornelia Locke and Chaske Spencer (Wild Indian, Marvel’s ECHO) as Pawnee ex-cavalry scout Eli Whipp in high-octane western The English for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and Prime Video in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Written and directed by multi-award-winning Hugo Blick (The Honourable Woman, Black Earth Rising, The Shadow Line), and produced by acclaimed … [Read more...] about All3Media International releases first-look images for Hugo Blick’s ‘The English’ for BBC and Amazon