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I am looking forward to this. but did anyone else read the book? I was very unimpressed by the book.

The trailer for season 2 of Star Trek: Lower Decks was revealed during the virtual Comic-Con@Home event.

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Keen for Kevin Can F Himself, Rosehaven (I need to start it and binge), Modern Love and might give 9 Perfect Strangers a miss!

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Production of season 2 is scheduled to start sometime in 2022 with the elaborate sets shipped from NZ to UK.

UPDATE: reactions from NZ

So it turns out Swimming Australia’s Amazon deal is a little bit wider than coverage of their competitions on Prime Video

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(Justin) Langer cut a deal with Amazon Prime for a payment of about $40,000, according to sources familiar with negotiations, leaving the players to work out their own arrangement.

Imagine their joy, then, when the Australian Cricket Association told them they were each receiving $81,000, regardless of how long they spent on camera.

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The 54-year-old received a rare quarantine exemption from the Hong Kong government to fly into the city last week to begin filming Expats, an Amazon series that her production company Blossom Films owns the rights to. The series is based on Janice Y. K. Lee’s book, The Expatriates - described by critics as “Sex and the City meets Lost in Translation”.


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Amazon has released the trailer for Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Show, premiering tomorrow (September 24). The fashion show features guest performances by Nas, Daddy Yankee, Normani and Ricky Martin.

According to The Sunday Telegraph’s Phil Rothfield, Amazon Prime is working on a documentary with Melbourne Storm NRL coach Craig Bellamy. It will be similar to Fox Sports’ Tales From Tiger Town (about the Wests Tigers’ 2021 season) but filmed over two years. Filming began during pre-season in January this year, but was put on hold when the coaching staff and players were forced into a biosecurity bubble.

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Sounds like Amazon’s All or Nothing series which started with a number of NFL teams, then moved onto football with Manchester City, then Tottenham Hotspur (Bayern Munich is due this year, and Arsenal in 2022) and recently rugby union with the New Zealand All Blacks.

It may not be an All or Nothing though. The AFL doco was independently named.


Amazon Prime and Sony Pictures have released a new clip from fantasy drama The Wheel of Time, which debuts on November 19. Showrunner Rafe Judkins also announced Ceara Coveney, Natasha O’Keeffe and Meera Syal would join the cast as series regulars in Season 2.


Amazon Prime has also bought the rights to Arctic Drift: A Year in the Ice, a documentary about Arctic climate research expedition MOSAiC, for Australia, New Zealand and Canada, from distributor Fremantle. Arctic Drift is set to broadcast in the UK, USA and France throughout October and November, coinciding with this year’s UN Climate Change Conference which starts on November 1 in Glasgow.

Burning will premiere at the Sydney Film Festival on November 6, and launch on Amazon Prime Video on November 26 in over 240 countries and territories globally.


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Amazon Prime has unveiled the first look at the movie Being the Ricardos, starring Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz, who were behind the iconic sitcom I Love Lucy.
It will have a limited release in cinemas on December 10 then on Amazon Prime on December 21.