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Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor has been fired by Amazon following an internal investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against him.

Jeffrey Tambor hits back against allegations:

They’ve also added The Office and Covert Affairs. Some TV Land cancelled shows like The Exes, Happily Divorced, Impastor and The Jim Gaffigan show are on the Australian Prime Video now.

Interesting that one episode of Happily Divorced has both Fran Drescher and Mr “Sherwood” played by Charles Shaughnessy .

10-part drama series The Looming Tower debuts on Amazon Prime this Thursday (March 1). It is based on the book of the same name by Lawrence Wright. It traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. It premieres in the US on Hulu on February 28.

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Why does an Amazon show premiere on Hulu?

The Looming Tower is actually produced for Hulu, Amazon has the rights outside the US.

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Amazon’s remake of Lord of the Rings could be the most expensive TV series ever made. Reuters reports Amazon had offered US$250 million for the rights alone; production and marketing could raise costs to US$500 million or more for two seasons.

Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television will produce a four-part miniseries for Amazon, on Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes. Javier Bardem will portray Cortes.

Mozart in the Jungle has been axed after four seasons. The show has been available in Australia on Stan and then Amazon Prime.

Amazon has ordered a nine-episode adaptation of UK series Utopia, written by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn who will also be showrunner and EP. The original series aired on Channel 4 for two seasons in 2013 and 2014.

Amazon Prime, which includes Video, Music and Reading, is doing ok. 100 million subscribers compared to the more high profile Netflix which has 125 million subscribers.

Wonder when they will have all episodes of The Path and Falling Water. Several series have/had eps missing. On desktop Aussie Prime Video.

The NFL has renewed the streaming deal with Amazon for two more seasons - 2018/19 and 2019/20. Reuters reports Amazon has agreed to pay around US$65 million to stream 11 Thursday night matches each season to its members around the world. These 11 matches will also be shown in the US by Fox.

The Australian Financial Review reports Amazon is close to signing a two-year global rights deal to show the Laver Cup tennis tournament. The inaugural tournament was shown on ESPN last year.

The closest thing I’ve seen to localised Amazon Original programming launched last week, and its pretty good - All or Nothing: All Blacks - a doco about the All Blacks’ international series last year.

I’ve heard a vicious rumour that our resident Kiwi makes a cameo - not that I’d know what he sounds like

After Sky and BT paid ÂŁ4.5BN ($6.2BN) for the majority of games earlier this year, there were two packages left with the Premier League arranging them to encourage digital bidders. Amazon secured one of these remaining packages with BT scoring the other.

The move now means that UK football fans will need to sign up to three separate services if they wish to watch all of the televised games – something that will not endear fans to the television companies.

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Of course it’s really the EPL who football fans should blame for separating the licensing & so inflicting this on them.

Even after UK fans subscribe to Sky, BT and Amazon, they still won’t be able to watch every EPL match live, due to the league banning live TV broadcast of 3pm matches on Saturdays.

Exactly, and no football fan is watching every single match. Amazon will only be showing the lower level teams so unless you’re a fan of one of those teams, the Amazon service won’t be required.

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They’ll show 20 games a season which consists of all 10 games of two rounds of the season (a midweek round in early December and the round which surrounds Boxing Day)