Prime members will have unlimited access to
episodes of new CBS summer series just four days after their
initial broadcast at no additional charge to their membership
Amazon and CBS also extend and expand deal for
more CBS and SHOWTIME™ series on Prime Video
(NASDAQ: AMZN) Building on the success of Amazon’s exclusive
in-season licensing agreement for Under the Dome and Extant, Amazon
and CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) today announced a new
multi-year, multi-series agreement to make Prime Video the
exclusive subscription streaming home for three new CBS summer
series through 2018. The first new CBS series included in this deal
will be next summer’s highly anticipated comic-thriller BrainDead,
which Prime members in the U.S. will be able to stream just four
days after broadcast at no additional charge to their
membership.
“Prime members have loved having access to series like Under the
Dome and Extant just four days after broadcast, and we’re excited
to continue to offer in-season availability of more great CBS
summer series over the next three years,” said Brad Beale, Amazon
Vice President of Digital Video Content Acquisition. “We are also
always working to ensure our Prime members have the best selection,
and we know they will continue to enjoy unlimited access to a wide
array of CBS titles to binge-watch anytime, anywhere.”
“We’re thrilled to build on our relationship with Amazon with
new original summer series and more programming from CBS and
SHOWTIME,” said Scott Koondel, Chief Corporate Licensing Officer,
CBS Corporation. “With a truly original, genre-bending concept from
outstanding creative auspices, BrainDead will be one of the most
talked-about shows next summer by CBS viewers and Prime
members.”
BrainDead is a comic thriller from Robert and Michelle King,
acclaimed producers of The Good Wife. Set in the world of D.C.
politics, the series follows a young fresh-faced Hill staffer (Mary
Elizabeth Winstead) getting her first job in Washington, D.C. and
discovering two things: the government has stopped working, and
alien spawn have come to Earth and eaten the brains of a growing
number of congressmen and Hill staffers.
This deal will also extend and expand CBS and SHOWTIME titles
available to Prime members. Popular programming including Medium,
The Tudors, The L Word, the original Twin Peaks series, America's
Next Top Model, I Love Lucy, Penn & Teller, The Amazing Race,
MacGyver, Brotherhood and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. CBS Films’
available for Prime members include the Golden Globe-nominated
films Inside Llewyn Davis and Pride, among others. Prime members
can watch CBS titles and more via the Amazon Video app for TVs,
connected devices and mobile devices, or online at
www.amazon.com/primevideo --Prime members can also download titles
on iOS, Android and Fire devices for offline viewing. Customers who
are not Prime members can sign-up for a 30-day free trial at
www.amazon.com/prime.
About Amazon VideoAmazon Video includes tens of thousands
of movies and TV episodes available on Prime Video at no additional
charge to Prime members, as well as access to hundreds of thousands
of titles to buy or rent. Amazon Video is the only service in the
world that brings customers both of these options in one place.
Prime Video, available on Amazon Video, lets Prime members enjoy
binge-worthy TV shows including Amazon Original Series airing now
such as the multi-Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-winning series
Transparent, Hand of God, Bosch, Catastrophe and Mozart in the
Jungle as well as hit series like Sex and the City, Veep, Girls,
The Sopranos, Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Wire. Prime
Video also offers members blockbuster movies such as Transformers:
Age of Extinction, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Jack Ryan: Shadow
Recruit, Star Trek Into Darkness and The Hunger Games: Catching
Fire, among others. Prime members have access to a collection of
kids shows including Amazon Original Series Annedroids,
Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street and the Annecy, Annie
and multi-Emmy Award-winning Tumble Leaf, as well as popular
shows from Nickelodeon and Nick Jr.
including SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the
Explorer, Team Umizoomi, and Blue’s Clues.
Prime members can look forward to several new upcoming original
series premiering this year, with the coming-of-age dramedy Red
Oaks premiering on October 9, followed by the much anticipated
adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle on
November 20, and season two of Emmy-winning Transparent December 4.
Coming in 2016 will be the second seasons of Mozart in the Jungle,
Bosch and romantic comedy, Catastrophe, along with the debut season
of The New Yorker Presents.
In addition to tens of thousands of titles to instantly stream
on Prime Video, the Amazon Prime membership (www.amazon.com/prime)
includes more than one million songs, more than a thousand
playlists and hundreds of stations through Prime Music,
unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items,
early access to select Lightning Deals, unlimited photo storage
with Amazon Photos, and access to borrow from more than 800,000
books for Kindle owners–all for $99 a year.
Amazon Video can be accessed through the Amazon Video app on
TVs, connected devices and mobile devices, or online at
Amazon.com/amazonvideo. Prime Video titles can also be downloaded
for offline enjoyment—the only subscription streaming service to
offer this functionality. Customers who are not already Prime
members can sign up for a free trial at Amazon.com/prime.
More to PrimeAmazon Prime is an annual membership program
for $99 a year that offers customers unlimited Free Two-Day
Shipping on more than 20 million items across all categories,
unlimited Free Same-Day Delivery on more than a million items in 14
metro areas, unlimited streaming of tens of thousands of movies and
TV episodes, more than one million songs, more than one thousand
playlists and hundreds of stations with Prime Music, early access
to select Lightning Deals all year long, free secure, unlimited
photo storage in Amazon Cloud Drive with Prime Photos and access to
more than 800,000 books to borrow with the Kindle Owners’ Lending
Library. In addition, Prime members in 11 cities receive one and
two hour delivery on a selection of tens of thousands of everyday
essentials with the dedicated Prime Now mobile app. Not a member?
Start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime.
About AmazonAmazon.com opened on the World Wide Web
in July 1995. The company is guided by four principles: customer
obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention,
commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking.
Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations,
Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing,
Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of
the products and services pioneered by Amazon.
About CBS CorporationCBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and
CBS) is a mass media company that creates and distributes
industry-leading content across a variety of platforms to audiences
around the world. The Company has businesses with origins that date
back to the dawn of the broadcasting age as well as new ventures
that operate on the leading edge of media. CBS owns the
most-watched television network in the U.S. and one of the world’s
largest libraries of entertainment content, making its brand — “the
Eye” — one of the most recognized in business. The Company’s
operations span virtually every field of media and entertainment,
including cable, publishing, radio, local TV, film, and interactive
and socially responsible media. CBS’s businesses include CBS
Television Network, The CW (a joint venture between CBS Corporation
and Warner Bros. Entertainment), CBS Television Studios, CBS Global
Distribution Group (CBS Studios International and CBS Television
Distribution), CBS Consumer Products, CBS Home Entertainment, CBS
Interactive, CBS Films, Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network, Pop
(a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Lionsgate),
Smithsonian Networks, Simon & Schuster, CBS Television
Stations, CBS Radio and CBS EcoMedia. For more information, go to
www.cbscorporation.com.
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