“As Prime Video turns 10, over 175 million Prime members have streamed shows and movies in the past year, and streaming hours are up more than 70 percent year over year,” Bezos said in the company’s Q1 earnings press release. Prime Video is also positioning itself to become a key player in sports programming. Prime Video will become the exclusive home for Thursday Night Football beginning in 2023. The 10-year deal makes Prime Video the first streaming service to secure an exclusive national broadcast package from the NFL, after streaming select games, in addition to their network broadcasts, over the past few years....

Next year their legions will grow with “Isle of the Dead,” starring popular “Walking Dead” alums Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan, as well as a previously announced “Walking Dead” spinoff returning Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride. All told, that makes for five spinoffs of the original “Walking Dead” series. (“The Walking Dead: World Beyond” ended last year after a two-season run.) Filling the shoes of long-running O.G. “Walking Dead” is a tall order — in its heyday, it was the highest-rated series in the history of cable television — but this precarious scenario isn’t unfamiliar to AMC....

First reported by The Wall Street Journal October 8, the AT&T-owned company plans a restructuring that will cause job losses at Warner Bros. studios and television channels such as HBO, TBS, and TNT. The impending layoffs are part of an effort to reduce the company’s costs by up to 20 percent. “Like the rest of the entertainment industry, we have not been immune to the significant impact of the pandemic,” a WarnerMedia spokesperson said in a statement to IndieWire....

Mike White’s much-anticipated limited series “The White Lotus” will make its world premiere at the Austin-based festival on Saturday, June 19 at 8 p.m. ET. The screening will be part of ATX’s all-virtual Season 10, and White will be joined by select cast members for an exclusive conversation following the premiere. HBO’s official synopsis of the series reads: A social satire set at an exclusive Hawaiian resort, the six-episode limited series follows the vacations of various hotel guests over the span of a week as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise....

Or in other words, he relocates after “a couple of guys who were up to no good started making trouble in my neighborhood.” Peacock’s “Bel-Air,” the highly-anticipated reimagining of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” introduces West Philadelphia born-and-raised native Banks in the role that made Will Smith a household name. Smith serves as an executive producer on the fresh take on the ’90s series, inspired by director and co-writer Morgan Cooper’s 2019 fan-made trailer addressing modern-day issues....

Set in the 1930s, we meet Sister Clodagh (Gemma Arterton) who, along with three other women from her order, are tasked with turning a Himalayan palace into a school and hospital. Upon arrival the nuns soon discover the isolated mountain-top locale once held the harem of the Rajput General. There’s a fantastic breadth and depth to the locations, immediately presented as Sister Clodagh and the other nuns arrive at Mopu, the palace they hope to turn into St....

But how beautiful that scenic backdrop is. Awash in memories of her late husband and their trips exploring the wild terrain of Iceland, photographer Chloe is welcomed in Japan by her old friend Toshi (Takashi Ueno), whom she appears to have a nervous but well-worn-into affection for. There’s a bit of a will-they-or-won’t-they air hanging around them, though Gray’s muted and mostly meandering screenplay does little to build off that suspense....