Explained: What the EU portability rules mean for Netflix, Amazon and Brexit

The start of this month introduced a major change for the way you watch your favourite shows when travelling across Europe.

What is it?

The Regulation on the Portability of Online Content Services is the new EU law that … Read More

Mozart in the Jungle cancelled after four seasons

Mozart in the Jungle has been cancelled after four seasons.

Amazon’s classical music comedy, which is based on Blair Tindall’s memoirs of being a professional musician, follows the politics, art and relationships of the fictional New York Symphony orchestra, which … Read More

Trailer: Sci-fi mystery The Crossing to premiere on Amazon this Easter

Amazon has snapped up the UK TV rights to sci-fi mystery drama The Crossing, which will premiere on Prime Video this Easter.

The series tells the story of a group of refugees from a war-torn country 250 years in the … Read More

The Crown leads 2018 British Academy Television Craft Awards nominees

The Crown is leading the pack in this year’s British Academy Television Craft Awards. Netflix’ royal drama has picked up seven nominations, including Costume Design, Editing: Fiction, Photography & Lighting: Fiction, Production Design, Sound: Fiction and Special, Visual & Graphic … Read More

First look: Anthony Hopkins and Florence Pugh in Amazon and BBC’s King Lear

Anthony Hopkins, Florence Pugh and Richard Eyre are teaming up for a new adaptation of King Lear this spring, and Amazon Prime Video and BBC Two have unveiled our first look at the cast in action.

Set in the fictional … Read More

Trailer: All or Nothing goes to college to follow The Michigan Wolverines

Amazon’s All or Nothing sports franchise is doubling up this April, as it returns to follow The Michigan Wolverines.

The Emmy-winning docuseries has taken viewers behind the scenes of NFL for two seasons, with unprecedented access to a team’s entire … Read More

Revealed: The viewing figures and data that drives Amazon Prime Video

The online video industry is one of countless calculations and closely guarded secrets. While Netflix is known for keeping its cards to its chest, though, Amazon is just as discreet: the online giant doesn’t like to announce its number of … Read More

Amazon Studios orders animated show from BoJack Horseman makers

The makers of BoJack Horseman are riding off to Amazon for a new animated series.

Called Undone, dramedy that explores the elastic nature of reality through its central character, Alma, slated to be played by Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel). … Read More

Amazon Studios signs first-look deal with Kenneth Lonergan

Amazon Studios has closed an exclusive first-look deal with Kenneth Lonergan. The two-year deal for directing and writing will cover both film and television projects by the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

Lonergan and Amazon Studios worked together last year on the critically … Read More

Jeremy Clarkson dismisses The Grand Tour cancellation claims

Jeremy Clarkson has dismissed claims that Amazon Prime Video has cancelled The Grand Tour.

The motoring series, which is hosted by Clarkson and his former Top Gear colleagues Richard Hammond and James May, is one of Amazon’s biggest original shows, … Read More