People Just Do Nothing, the BBC’s popular mockumentary sitcom has been officially picked up for a US remake by Amazon, it’s been reported. The sitcom follows a group of London-based pirate radio station and the lives of its hosts, MC Grindah and DJ Beats. It’s created by and stars Allan Mustafa, Steve Stamp, Asim Chaudhry and … >
Jill Soloway, creator of Amazon’s awards darling, Transparent has announced that the series will end in the form of an all-singing, all-dancing musical… Soloway was speaking to The New York Times when they announced that a two-hour musical will serve as the last hurrah for the series, which previously announced its fifth and final series. How the … >
Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon’s entertainment division, revealed that the studio are about to close a deal with Blake Lively to produce a new streaming series.. Chatting at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit to the magazine’s Krista Smith, Salke said, “Blake … has a huge appetite for a big scripted show with a really interesting … >
Julia Roberts is set to star in Homecoming, a “mind-bending psychological thriller” series for Amazon Prime Video. You can watch the attention-grabbing trailer right here.
Amazon Studios is moving away from its vote-based pilot production process, which allowed the general public to vote on which pilot episodes they wanted to see developed into full series.
There may be life in Lucifer yet. Jennifer Salke, the head honcho over at Amazon Studio, has revealed that talks are ongoing between Amazon and NBC with regards to Lucifer’s future. “We were talking about Lucifer,” Amazon’s Salke told Deadline last Thursday. “I know that international, especially the UK group, was really bullish on that show, I haven’t checked … >
The first teaser trailer has arrived for Amazon Prime’s Picnic At Hanging Rock miniseries, which stars Game Of Thrones alum Natalie Dormer. Based on Joan Lindsay’s novel of the same name, Picnic At Hanging Rock deals with the disappearance of three schoolgirls and their governess. Dormer plays the headmistresses of Appleyard College, the educational establishment that gets caught up in this scandalous … >
We believe the word here is ‘yikes’. Amazon prevailed in a bidding war at the end of last year, that saw it snap up the rights to make a TV show based on J R R Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The deal was said to have cost Amazon an up front fee … >
Without a frame of footage being shot, it looks like the bill for Amazon’s planned TV series of The Lord Of The Rings is going to comfortably eclipse the price of the acclaimed movie trilogy. Amazon won a bidding war for the rights to make a TV show based on J R R Tolkien’s trilogy … >
The world of movie studios is a bumpy one at the moment, with all sorts of deals bubbling away as the big names consolidate. Disney, of course, is leading the charge here, with its big money offer for 21st Century Fox, that would include its film and TV assets. A spanner has been thrown in … >