Prime Video Cancels 8 TV Shows in 2023, Renews 10 Hits & Announces 1 Series Is Ending

Fans might be shocked to learn about what was canceled at Prime Video in the past 12 months, plus, what his TV show will be coming to an end.

Amazon is adding ads into movies and TV shows on Prime Video.

Amazon Prime Video has confirmed the dates from which it will introduce advert breaks in its shows.The move was first announced back in September as a bid to increase the amount of money it invests in making original content.Users in the US will start seeing ads on the streamer from January 29, while they will appear on UK and German users’ version of the service from February 4.Amazon said the move would “allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time”.An ad-free version of Amazon Prime Video will be available for an extra £2.99 per month, but live content such as sports will continue to feature adverts. The company affirmed in an email to customers that it aims to “have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers” and will still offer “compelling value”.Amazon plans on expanding adverts to other territories, including France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia, later in 2024.Some of Amazon’s rival streamers, including Disney+ and Netflix, have also brought in adverts in recent months, particularly as they have struggled to hold onto customers amid growing inflation worldwide.In other streaming news, Warner Bros.

Amazon announced in September that ads were on the way for Prime Video‘s entertainment content. Now we have a date.

Prime Video India has unveiled Wedding.con, a true-crime docu-series about women who are deceived and betrayed in pursuit of love. Scroll down for a trailer for the show that launches next week.

Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer are going to be in a new TV series together!

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer are teaming up to kick some butt together on TV. The two actors have signed on to star in an action-adventure series based on an original idea by exec producer Tessa Coates (“Feel Good,” “Ladhood”) for Amazon’s Prime Video. Skydance Television is behind the show, along with Andy and Barbara Muschietti’s Double Dream shingle and Spencer’s Orit Entertainment (which has a first-look deal with Skydance; this is the first project to come out of that pact).

Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (Truth Be Told) and Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) are set to star in and executive produce a new comedy series from creator Tessa Coates (Feel Good). In a highly competitive situation with multiple bidders, the as-yet-untitled series from Skydance Television has landed at Prime Video with a straight-to-series order.

Can tragedy provoke a larger discussion? Lulu Wang explores the complex issues surrounding privilege and social conscience in “Expats.” The filmmaker additionally serves as creator, executive producer, and writer on this adaptation of Janice Y. K.

Amazon Prime Video has confirmed a popular TV series will return for a new season. Good Omens, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant, has been confirmed for a third and final series.

There are going to be major changes at Paramount+ and we’ve learned of some renewed and cancelled content.

Kitao Sakurai (Twisted Metal) is set to direct the pilot and an additional episode of Prime Video‘s Butterfly, a TV adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name by Arash Amel.

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has given a series order to Obsession, a drama based on Catherine Ryan Howard’s international bestselling novel 56 Days. It hails from James Wan’s Atomic Monster as well as Amazon MGM Studios, which earlier today landed its most ever Golden Globe nominations, 16, ten of them for television.

Reina Hardesty (The Secret Art of Human Flight) has joined the cast of Prime Video‘s Butterfly opposite Daniel Dae Kim.

In the current media landscape, every pre-existing piece of IP with any semblance of brand awareness can take to updating. The latest is a new television series expansion of 2005’s “Mr.

EXCLUSIVE: Uriah Shelton (The Glades, Girl Meets World) has been cast as a series regular in the Prime Video series Motorheads from writer/showrunner John A. Norris.

Selome Hailu Amazon Prime Video has renewed “Harlem” for a third season. From “Girls Trip” and “The Blackening” writer Tracy Oliver, “Harlem” follows four best friends in Harlem — Camille (Meagan Good), Tye (Jerrie Johnson), Quinn (Grace Byers) and Angie (Shonique Shandai) — who navigate new phases of their careers, relationships and big city dreams together.

There are some big updates you might want to know if you subscribe to Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service.

What do you do when you want to expand the “Spider-Man” film and TV franchise, but you don’t actually have the ability to use Spider-Man? Well, you make a variety of spinoff films and TV shows and hope people ignore the fact that B-level characters are the stars and the one character everyone wants to see is never showing up. So far, for Sony, that has led to mixed results.

Naman Ramachandran Creative Stew is unveiling an eclectic TV and film slate at Singapore’s Asia TV Forum and Market (ATF). Creative Stew, a decade old Malaysian content production company with operations in Singapore and India, is best known for “That Cover Girl,” the first Malaysian original series on Prime Video, which is a hit for the service.