(NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a content licensing
agreement with BBC Worldwide North America that will make Prime Instant
Video the exclusive online-only subscription home for streaming Season
One and future seasons of the intriguing dramatic thriller Orphan
Black. The highly regarded series returns to BBC AMERICA on
Saturday, April 19, at 9:00 p.m. ET, allowing Prime members plenty of
time to enjoy past episodes on hundreds of connected devices anytime,
anywhere before the series continues.
Orphan Black stars Golden Globe-nominee Tatiana Maslany as an
outsider who assumes the identity of a woman who looks just like her
after witnessing her suicide—only to realize that she and the dead woman
are clones. Maslany was awarded the Critics’ Choice Television Award for
Best Actress in a Drama Series, the Television Critics Association Award
for Individual Achievement in Drama, and a Young Hollywood Award for
Breakthrough Performance for her work in the series. Orphan Black
was created by award-winning director John Fawcett and award-winning
writer Graeme Manson, and also stars award-winning actress Maria Doyle
Kennedy (Mrs. S.), Dylan Bruce (Paul Dierden), Jordan Gavaris (Felix
Dawkins), Kevin Hanchard (Detective Art Bell), and Skyler Wexler (Kira). Orphan
Black is produced by Temple Street Productions in association with
BBC AMERICA and Bell Media’s Space and is distributed internationally by
BBC Worldwide North America.
“Orphan Black is exactly the type of smart, suspenseful TV show
that our customers love to binge on,” said Brad Beale, Director of
Digital Video Content Acquisition for Amazon. “It’s easy to see why
Tatiana Maslany was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in Orphan
Black. We’re excited to offer the first and future seasons
exclusively to Prime members at no additional cost, continuing
our tradition of offering a wide variety of great content we know our
customers will enjoy.”
“Prime Instant Video continues to be a great platform for viewers to
enjoy our content, and we’re very pleased to make it the exclusive
online streaming provider for every season of Orphan Black, starting
with Season One,” said Matt Forde, EVP Sales & Co-Productions for
BBC Worldwide North America. “Temple Street Productions along with
Graeme Manson and John Fawcett have created an addictive,
edge-of-your-seat series and now is the perfect time for subscribers to
get on board and catch up on Season One before the series returns to BBC
AMERICA in April.”
Prime Instant Video Exclusives
Prime Instant Video is the exclusive online-only subscription home for
PBS series Downton Abbey and Mr. Selfridge, FX drama
The Americans, CBS summer blockbuster series Under the Dome
and later this summer, Extant, along with hits like Veronica
Mars, Justified, Falling Skies, Grimm, Workaholics,
Suits, Covert Affairs and many others. Prime Instant Video
also offers an exclusive collection of kids shows from Nickelodeon and
Nick Jr. that customers won’t find on any other online-only subscription
service, including favorites like SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora
the Explorer, Team Umizoomi, Blue’s Clues, and The
Bubble Guppies. Airing now, Amazon’s first original series Alpha
House and Betas can be found exclusively on Prime Instant
Video as well.
Customers can enjoy Prime Instant Videos on hundreds of compatible
Amazon Instant Video devices including Kindle Fire HDX, Kindle Fire
HD, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Roku, Xbox, PlayStation and the Wii. Prime
Instant Video is the only U.S. online subscription streaming service
that enables offline viewing—on a plane, on vacation, and anywhere else
where you may not have Wi-Fi. Customers can download tens of thousands
of Prime Instant Videos to their new Kindle Fire HD or Kindle Fire HDX.
About Amazon Instant Video
Amazon Instant Video is a digital video streaming and download service
that offers Amazon customers the ability to rent, purchase or subscribe
to a huge catalog of videos. Customers can choose from more than 150,000
titles to purchase or rent—movies range from new releases to classic
favorites, and Amazon Instant Video offers major television shows,
entire seasons, or even day after air TV. Prime Instant Video is
Amazon’s video subscription offer—it includes tens of thousands of
movies and TV episodes selected from the full assortment available at
Amazon Instant Video.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. Kindle Paperwhite is the world’s best-selling and most
advanced e-reader. It features new display technology with higher
contrast, the next generation built-in light, a faster processor, the
latest touch technology, and exclusive new features designed from the
ground up for readers. Kindle, the lightest and smallest Kindle,
features improved fonts and faster page turns. The new Kindle Fire HDX
features a stunning exclusive 7” or 8.9” HDX display, a quad-core 2.2
GHz processor, 2x more memory, and 11 hours of battery life, as well as
exclusive new features of Fire OS 3.0 including X-Ray for Music, Second
Screen, Prime Instant Video downloads, and the revolutionary new Mayday
button. The all-new Kindle Fire HD includes an HD display,
high-performance processor and dual speakers at a breakthrough price.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
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www.amazon.de,
www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca,
www.amazon.cn,
www.amazon.it,
www.amazon.es,
www.amazon.com.br,
www.amazon.in,
www.amazon.com.mx,
and www.amazon.com.au.
As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include
Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
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of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment and
data center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements,
acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system
interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments
and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect
Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual
Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
About BBC Worldwide – North America
BBC Worldwide is the main commercial arm and a wholly-owned subsidiary
of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The company exists to
maximize the value of the BBC’s assets for the benefit of the UK license
payer, and invests in public service programming in return for rights.
Core activities in the U.S. include BBC AMERICA, Sales & Co-Productions,
bbc.com, Consumer Products and BBC Worldwide Productions, the production
arm responsible for the smash hit Dancing with the Stars.
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