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Original TV shows by Amazon
2012-05-03
Amazon.com Incorporated showcased a new effort to develop original comedy and children's shows to disburse over the firm's video streaming service. The move is a part of a wider push by Amazon to provide its own content, including video and electronic books, to sell to its millions of purchasers over the Net. The planet's biggest Web retailer announced folk will be in a position to submit ideas for TV series to the internet site of its Amazon Studios unit. Amazon stated that it will option one new project every month and add it to a development slate where it's going to be tested for viability with an audience.Amazon has been spending heavily in current quarters to add flicks and shows to its video streaming business, rocketing competition with Netflix Incorporated. Nonetheless both firms are also working on manufacturing their own content from the start to reduce dependency on large motion picture studios and production firms, which wish to be paid handsomely for their work. Amazon Studios, which was originally launched in Nov 2010, accepts flick scripts and asks clients to study the ideas online, utilising the feedback to select which project should really go ahead. The unit has received more than seven hundred test pictures and seven thousand scripts so far, and fifteen motion picture projects are in development. The new target shows broadens this effort. Amazon asserted on Wed. the series project is controlled by Joe Lewis, formerly with 20 th Century Fox and Comedy Central, and Tara Sorensen, who came from State Geographic Youngsters . Inside forty five days of getting pilot scripts, Amazon stated that it will either extend a choice on the project for $10,000 or ask the creator to put the concept on the Amazon Studios site.
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