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Amazon Prime Video releases The Boys Season 2 trailer

Amazon Prime Video has released the official teaser trailer for the second season of The Boys, the first three episodes of which will launch on Prime Video on September 4th. New episodes will be available each Friday culminating in an epic season finale on October 9th. The eight-episode Amazon Original series will be available exclusively on Prime Video […]

July 8, 2020

Prime Video orders Fallout TV series

Amazon Prime Video is partnering with the creators of HBO drama Westworld to adapt Bethesda’s long-running post-apocalyptic video game series Fallout for a TV series. Amazon released a short teaser video for the show on its Twitter account, with flashed up the words “Amazon Original” and “Please stand by”. Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa […]

July 3, 2020

Mad Men free on IMDb TV

Mad Men has found a new streaming home. From July 15th, all seven seasons of the multi-award winning drama starring Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss — which were previously available on Netflix until June of this year — will stream for free, with commercials, on the Amazon-owned IMDb TV. IMDb TV is currently only available […]

July 2, 2020

Prime Video tests Watch Party feature in US

Amazon Prime Video is beginning to roll out a co-viewing feature to Amazon Prime members in the US. The ‘Watch Party’ feature, which is included at no extra cost with a Prime membership, allows participants to watch video content together at the same time with the playback synchronised to the host’s account. The host of […]

July 1, 2020

Amazon creates Satellite Solutions division

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reaching even further into the sky with a new division called Aerospace & Satellite Solutions. A report in the WSJ says that it will focus on space projects for a variety of customers including NASA, the US military and Space Force and important aerospace companies such as Lockheed Martin and […]

July 1, 2020By Chris Forrester

CTV Seller Trust rankings from Pixalate

Ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform Pixalate has launched the Connected TV/OTT Seller Trust Index (CSTI), describing it as a “breakthrough” addition to Pixalate’s suite of programmatic seller quality ranking, and the world’s first quality-based ranking system for programmatic OTT/CTV sellers. Pixalate’s new CSTI ranks the overall quality of programmatic sellers across three major […]

June 30, 2020

ESA chooses Leicester for new incubation effort

The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen to build a £100 million space-tech incubation centre in Leicester, UK. The ESA is not part of the European Union Space Park Leicester is an extension of ESA’s existing Business Incubation thrust for R&D.  It joins Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire, Sci-Tech Daresbury in the North West and the […]

June 30, 2020By Chris Forrester

The Legend of Sergio Ramos on Prime Video in 2021

Amazon Prime Video has announced the return of the Spanish football icon, Captain of Real Madrid and the Spain’s National Football team, Sergio Ramos, with a new docuseries following the success of the 3 Daytime Emmy Award nominee El Corazon de Sergio Ramos. The Legend of Sergio Ramos will launch exclusively on Prime Video in […]

June 29, 2020

The Boys returns to Amazon Prime Video on Sept 4

The Boys, arguably the biggest breakout TV series of 2019, will return to Amazon Prime Video with a second season on September 4th. The announcement was made in an online event featuring the cast, and hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt – who himself will join the cast in Season 2. The first three […]

June 26, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Amazon plans live TV on Prime Video

Amazon would seem to be preparing to add live TV to its services, according to recently posted job adverts. One of the adverts indicates that Amazon is looking to hire someone to “redefine how customers watch 24/7 linear broadcast TV content” by “designing the end-to-end customer experience for how customers discover and watch Linear TV […]

June 25, 2020