Amazon's series Grand Tour Great White North Ice Resurface hits the streets of Toronto

This past weekend, Amazon made waves by driving three tricked-out Ice Resurfacers through downtown Toronto to help promote The Grand Tour Great White North Ice ResurfaceRACE. 

Season 3 of the hit Amazon Original series, The Grand Tour, will take its final lap on Friday, April 12. To celebrate the conclusion of another action-packed season, Amazon Prime Video is bringing all of the adrenaline-fueled fun to Toronto for Canadian fans. 

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Amazon enters nine-figure deal with ‘Westworld’ creators to develop exclusive content for Prime Video

Amazon has just signed Westworld’s showrunners Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and their company Kilter films to develop original shows for Prime Video. It’s said to be a low-to-mid nine-figure deal that covers a four-to-five year period, which is believed to be worth upwards of US$30 million a year. The couple will be leaving Warner Bros TV but they will continue to be showrunners for HBO’s Westworld. They are still signed up to write and executive produce more seasons of the how. Engadget reports the first show they might work on could be the sci-fi drama series, The Peripheral. But we’re going to have to wait and see what they have cooking up.

Amazon Prime Video has 2,500 hours of Jim Henson Co. content

Following the release of Jim Henson Co.’s sci-fi series Farscape on Amazon Prime Video, the entertainment company is bringing 2,500 hours of classic programming into the platform. Most will be available in 67 different territories, which includes Canada. Subscribers can expect to get original five seasons of Fraggle Rock (all 96 episodes), The Storyteller, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, and Mother Goose Stories. What isn’t coming to the country is Pajanimals. You can view the content available through a dedicated Amazon landing page for Jim Henson Co. at this link, available to subscribers of Prime or the standalone Amazon Prime Video service.

Source: Variety

Amazon is reportedly planning to offer a free Fire TV video news app

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Amazon might be channeling Roku with rumours that the company plans to offer a free video news updates app. It’s being reported that Amazon has already approached a number of news organizations and Verizon, who owns Yahoo News and Finance, with hopes of getting them to distribute their content in the app that will come with the Fire TV streaming devices. Amazon is reportedly targeting to release this in the next few months. It makes sense from a business perspective for the company to do this. It could give them an opportunity to rake in more ad dollars by running advertisements between segments. According to The Information, Amazon hopes to integrate its news video app into Alexa, but they didn’t expand on this idea.

Source: The Verge