Advanced Television

Amazon

Prime Video enhances streaming experience

Prime Video says it is “bringing clarity and simplicity back to streaming” with improvements to its user experience that will begin to roll out globally with immediate effect, and will become available to all customers in the coming weeks. Updates will enable users to be able to navigate across entertainment with extra ease. With more […]

July 23, 2024By Nik Roseveare

Amazon acquires Hammer horror studio

Amazon’s Prime Video division has acquired Bray Film Studios, the former home of the celebrated Hammer horror series of movies. The iconic studio, siuyated 25 miles from London, is approximately 53,600 square feet and includes five sound stages, 77,400 square feet of workshops, 39,400 square feet of office space, 182,900 square feet of backlot, and […]

July 22, 2024

Prime Video orders Muhammed Ali scripted series

Prime Video has ordered The Greatest, the first authorised scripted series about the life of global icon, boxing champion, and humanitarian Muhammad Ali. The series, which has unprecedented access to the estate of Ali, is produced by Michael B Jordan’s Outlier Society, Ben Watkins’ Blue Monday Productions, Authentic Studios, Roc Nation, Polygram Entertainment, a Universal […]

July 12, 2024

Cross debuts on Prime Video in November

Prime Video has announced that new crime thriller series, Cross, starring Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross, will premiere (with all eight episodes) worldwide in more than 240 countries and territories on November 14th exclusively on the streaming platform. From Paramount Television Studios and Skydance Television, Cross is a complex, twisted, pulse-pounding thriller created by showrunner and […]

July 8, 2024

Canada: PBS Documentaries on Prime Video Channels

PBS Distribution, a distributor of public media content, is launching a new documentary-focused Prime Video Channel in Canada – PBS Documentaries. Like its US counterpart, this subscription-based streaming channel will include thought-provoking documentaries from PBS’s library. Audiences will be able to discover and explore a  collection of documentaries and factual series across all genres, including […]

July 3, 2024

Amazon’s Project Kuiper slips again

Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband-by-satellite system, potentially the main rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink, has again delayed its launch date. Kuiper’s first satellites will not now launch much before the end of the year. The company talks about Q4, but has not given a firm date. Amazon had previously said that its debut satellites would launch […]

June 28, 2024By Chris Forrester

SkyShowtime on Prime in Europe

SkyShowtime will be available through Prime Video Channels for the first time across four European markets: Spain, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. SkyShowtime on Prime Video will roll out in Spain on July 1st, and launch soon in the other three territories. Prime customers will be able to subscribe to the channel for: €7.99 (Spain), […]

June 27, 2024

What are the best streaming services students should pick from the bunch?

Streaming services have become a central hub of entertainment and education for students worldwide. As these platforms diversify their offerings, they cater not only to leisure but also to the academic needs of students, providing access to a wide array of content that can enhance both their learning experience and downtime. For students, choosing the […]

June 26, 2024

India: Excitel partners with Amazon Prime

Excitel, the Indian home internet start-up, has partnered with Amazon Prime to offer Prime benefits to its customers. Subscribers of Excitel’s Cable Cutter plan will be able to subscribe to Prime Lite, and access Prime Video’s  content library, as well as enjoy shopping incentives on Amazon. In addition to Prime Lite with Excitel, the enhanced […]

June 18, 2024

Upwave enables AWS Clean Rooms

Upwave, an analytics platform for brand advertising, is expanding its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable its customers and partners with AWS Clean Rooms, a privacy-enhanced data collaboration service that helps companies easily and securely collaborate on their collective datasets—all without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data. AWS Clean Rooms enables a […]

June 14, 2024