This is Football – August 2

Written and co-created by award-winning foreign correspondent and sports author John Carlin (Invictus), This Is Football, explores the emotions, stories, passions and triumphs at the heart of the world’s most loved sport. The six-part premium documentary event series will launch August 2, 2019 exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

This is Football, is produced by leading British indie October Films in partnership with pre-eminent Spanish TV and film production house Brutal Media, and Starbucks for Amazon Prime Video.

Filmed across the globe from Iceland to Argentina, Spain to Rwanda, China to the United States, and including a glittering cast of characters from legendary players to presidents, poets to priests, managers to mathematicians – This is Football creates a unique and timeless portrait of the game and humanity itself.

Free Meek – August 9

Free Meek will premiere Friday, August 9, 2019 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. The five-episode limited documentary series chronicles Meek Mill’s fight for exoneration in his legal case while exposing the broader flaws of the U.S. criminal justice system. As Meek, his family and his legal team fight for his freedom, cameras capture the birth of the #FREEMEEK movement, the launch of the REFORM Alliance and the re-investigation of a case filled with allegations of dirty cops, planted evidence and systemic corruption within a broken judicial system.

Produced by Roc Nation and The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC), an Industrial Media company, Free Meek will give viewers unprecedented access to Meek’s life, career, and struggle with the criminal justice system, while exposing the crisis of long tail probation.

Inside Borussia Dortmund – August 16

Four-part docuseries about the breathtaking 2018/19 season of the Bundesliga club is available for Prime Video members this August across the globe to stream with new episodes each Friday.

A top club at close quarters – Borussia Dortmund is the first Bundesliga team to offer a unique and unprecedented look behind–the-scenes of a German top football club. From August 16, the four-part Amazon Original sports docu-series Inside Borussia Dortmund will provide exclusive insights of the entire BVB team with the first three episodes releasing weekly every Friday, and the finale episode streaming on September 13.Inside Borussia Dortmund will be available to stream for Prime Video members worldwide and has been produced and directed by the award-winning filmmaker and football documentarist Aljoscha Pause (Being Mario Götze; Tom Meets Zizou: Kein Sommermärchen; Trainer!).

Comedy Specials – August 19

Amazon Prime Video and Avalon are releasing six UK stand-up comedy specials from some of the country’s most loved comedians. Including new material, the six specials will be recorded throughout 2019 and will be released on Prime Video starting August 2019 with specials from Chris Ramsey, Ed Gamble, Flo & Joan and Paul Chowdhry launching August 19, with the remaining specials to follow later in the year.

Trailers for the four upcoming specials can be found here:

• Chris Ramsey

• Ed Gamble

• Flo & Joan

• Paul Chowdhry

These specials join a global line up of comedy talent including Jim Gaffigan launching August 16, and Alonzo Bodden, #IMomSoHard, Alice Wetterlund and Mike E. Winfield all launching August 23, exclusively on Prime Video.

If anything, it’s clear that Amazon Prime is just continuing to bring the heat. To view the full line up, look no further than here.

All or Nothing: The Carolina Panthers – July 19

Season four of the Emmy Award-winning sports documentary series All or Nothing, an Amazon Original series produced by NFL Films, will premiere on Friday, July 19, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. All or Nothing: The Carolina Panthers tells the story of a talented team striving to compete for a championship in the face of inevitable change.

Emmy Award-winning actor Jon Hamm (Good Omens, Mad Men) returns as narrator of the eight-episode season, all of which will be available for Prime Video members to stream on July 19. In this season, just three years removed from his MVP season and a Super Bowl appearance, quarterback Cam Newton remains the charismatic star around whom the Panthers revolve. His cast of teammates includes dynamic running back Christian McCaffrey and perennial All-Pro linebacker Luke Kuechly, along with a mix of talented rookies hungry to prove themselves and several veteran stalwarts who know this season might be their last. As the season unfolds, Carolina’s players, staff, head coach Ron Rivera and the team’s new owner David Tepper are all forced to navigate a difficult yet compelling path.

All or Nothing is the first series to take viewers inside the locker room, on the sidelines and off the field for an unprecedented look inside an NFL franchise’s complete season. The series was recently nominated once again in the Outstanding Serialized Sports Documentary category at the 2019 Sports Emmys.

The Boys – July 26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06rueu_fh30

Based on The New York Times best-selling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys is a fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes – who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods – abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about The Seven, and Vought – the multi-billion-dollar conglomerate that manages these superheroes and covers up all of their dirty secrets.

Greenlight & other announcements recently…

Amazon Prime Video Sets August 30 Debut for New Fantasy Drama Carnival Row Starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne.

Carnival Row, the one-hour Amazon Original fantasy drama series from Legendary Television starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, will premiere Friday, August 30, 2019. Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Delevingne (Suicide Squad) star in Carnival Row, a series set in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose exotic homelands were invaded by the empires of man. This growing population struggles to coexist with humans — forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom. But even in darkness, hope lives, as a human detective, Rycroft Philostrate (Bloom), and a refugee faerie named Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne) rekindle a dangerous affair despite an increasingly intolerant society. Vignette harbours a secret that endangers Philo’s world during his most important case yet: a string of gruesome murders threatening the uneasy peace of the Row.

Free Meek Premieres Friday, August 9, Exclusively On Amazon Prime Video

Amazon announced that Free Meek will premiere Friday, August 9, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. The five-episode limited documentary series chronicles Meek Mill’s fight for exoneration in his legal case while exposing the broader flaws of the U.S. criminal justice system. As Meek, his family and his legal team fight for his freedom, cameras capture the birth of the #FREEMEEK movement, the launch of the REFORM Alliance and the re-investigation of a case filled with allegations of dirty cops, planted evidence and systemic corruption within a broken judicial system.

Rosamund Pike has been cast in The Wheel of Time

Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Die Another Day) has been cast for the role of “Moiraine” in the Amazon Original, The Wheel of Time. Based on Robert Jordan’s best-selling fantasy novels, The Wheel of Time is one of the most popular and enduring fantasy series of all-time, with over 90 million books sold. Set in a sprawling, epic world where magic exists and only certain women are allowed to access it, the story follows Moiraine, a member of the incredibly powerful all-female organization called the Aes Sedai, as she arrives in the small town of Two Rivers. There, she embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young men and women, one of whom is prophesied to be the Dragon Reborn, who will either save or destroy humanity. The Wheel of Time will be adapted for television by executive producer/showrunner Rafe Judkins (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Hemlock Grove).

Amazon Studios Greenlights New YA Series The Wilds From Sarah Streicher and ABC Signature Studios, part of Disney Television Studios

Amazon Studios has announced that it has greenlit the new young adult drama The Wilds from writer and executive producer Sarah Streicher (Daredevil) and ABC Signature Studios, part of Disney Television Studios. Part survival drama, part dystopic slumber party, The Wilds follows a group of teenage girls from radically different backgrounds after an airplane crash strands them on a deserted island. The show explores the past and present struggles of these young women, offering up a vivid portrayal of what it means to grow up female in our time – whether you are lost in the wilderness or not.

Amazon Studios Debuts Teaser Trailer For Undone

The teaser trailer for the hotly-anticipated Amazon Original series, Undone, was will premiere later in 2019 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. From acclaimed creators Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg (BoJack Horseman) comes Undone, a groundbreaking and genre bending animated series about a young woman’s complex journey to unlock her past and solve the mystery of her father’s death.

Amazon Studios Signs New First Look Deal With Actor, Producer, And Director Daniel Dae Kim And 3ad

Amazon Studios has reached a new first-look deal with acclaimed actor, producer and director Daniel Dae Kim (Always Be My Maybe, The Good Doctor, Hawaii Five-0, LOST) and his production company 3AD. As part of the agreement, Amazon Studios will have first-look rights to projects developed and adapted by Kim and 3AD, to premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.