Amazon topped Wall Street estimates in the third quarter, posting an 11% rise in revenue compared with the year-ago quarter and diluted earnings per share of $1.43. The earnings figure came in well above the Street expectation of $1.14, while total revenue of $158.9 billion eased past the consensus…

Turn on Amazon’s Prime Video on Election Night, and you will see the streaming giant do something it has never done before: live coverage of a breaking news event. Brian Williams, the former NBC News and MSNBC anchor who will host Election Night Live, has described the special as the first “new…

After debuting its Black Friday NFL coverage last November, Amazon is leaning into the ritual, announcing it will add an NBA game on the day starting in 2025. The tech giant’s Prime Video division secured a long-term rights deal with the NBA, bolstering its live sports offerings and adding more…

Amazon has taken a stake in Spotter, a creator-focused platform founded in 2019, with plans to leverage the partnership across many of its businesses. In a press release, Vernon Sanders, head of television, Amazon MGM Studios, said the transaction will accelerate Amazon’s recent push into the creator…

EXCLUSIVE: Last year’s labor strikes may have eventually convinced the big players to revamp streaming residuals, but debates around compensation are far from over or unique to the U.S. Via their fledgling consultancy businesses, British TV vets Adrian Wills and Simon Brown are on a mission to help…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is shaping up to be one of the hottest TV casting searches this fall, Amazon MGM Studios has assembled a wishlist of accomplished young actors for the role of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, Prime Video’s high-profile series adaptation of the video game franchise from Emmy-winning Fleabag…

EXCLUSIVE: The inhabitants of Prime Video’s UK thriller The Rig are heading to an Arctic glacier. Amazon has unveiled new cast for Season 2 of the hit series, along with first looks, with Star Trek star Alice Krige and The Queen’s Gambit’s Jacob Fortune-Lloyd joining Emily Hampshire, Martin Compston…

Good Omens is getting a final send-off, albeit a truncated one. The Amazon fantasy drama will end with one 90-minute episode in lieu of a full third season with creator Neil Gaiman exiting after allegations were made against him by a slew of women. Michael Sheen and David Tennant, who play the…

The animating concept of Game 7, the anthology Prime Video docuseries from Words + Pictures, is right there in the title. In a best-of-seven series to determine champions in the NHL, NBA and Major League Baseball, moments in the final game (whenever it occurs) are instantly memorable due to the…

EXCLUSIVE: With Ronald D. Moore back in the Sony Pictures TV Studios fold, the prolific creator/showrunner is taking on a high-profile IP for the studio. He has been tapped as writer, executive producer and showrunner of Sony TV and Amazon MGM Studios’ Prime Video series God Of War, based on PlayStation's…

EXCLUSIVE: With the shocking Season 1 finale cliffhanger of Mr. & Mrs. Smith still reverberating, the hit Prime Video series is looking for new leads. According to sources, Amazon MGM Studios is seeking an actor and actress in their 20s to play John and Jane, respectively, in Season 2. The roles are…

Amazon Prime Video confirmed plans today for an election night special anchored by Brian Williams. Election Night Live with Brian Williams will mark Williams’ first major appearance since departing MSNBC and NBC News at the end of 2021. On the special, Williams will be joined by contributors…