Following the success of Kelce, the 2023 feature-length documentary about NFL player Travis Kelce, Prime Video Sports and Skydance Sports will produce two new documentary projects. The first, The Home Team: NY Jets, will be a six-part series about six New York Jets players and their partners, including Quinnen and Maranda Williams and Alijah and Jessie Vera-Tucker. The second will be a feature-length documentary about the life and career of NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens.
WWE star Mike Mizanin, known as “The Miz,” will host a reboot of American Gladiators for Prime Video. Old seasons of the series are also available to stream on the new American Gladiators’ free, ad-supported channel on Prime Video FAST.
Prime Video renewed Beast Games for two more seasons following the success of its first. Created and produced by YouTuber MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson), the show is a reality competition series where contestants compete for a $10 million cash prize. Roughly 50 million people watched the show within its first 25 days, making it Prime Video’s most-watched unscripted series.
Ahead of the presentation, Prime Video announced that it ordered a new docuseries about multi-hyphenate female chief executive officers. The show will feature Serena Williams, Thalia, Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, Loren Ridinger, Winnie Harlow, Hannah Bronfman, and Isabela Rangel Grutman. Blink49 Studios’ Tara Long and Nadine Rajabi will executive produce.
The Academy of Country Music Awards, which just wrapped its 60th annual show on May 8, will continue to stream live on Prime Video through 2028 thanks to a multi-year deal, the two companies announced.
The partnership has “expanded the reach and accessibility of our show and the Country Music genre,” Damon Whiteside, CEO of the Academy of Country Music, said in a statement. “The synergies between Prime Video, Amazon Music, Twitch, and the other divisions of Amazon bring exponential value to our artists, our genre, and our fans through an immersive 360 music experience they can’t get from any other platform.”
After a lengthy promo for his new holiday movie, Man with the Bag, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis reminisced about their 1994 action film True Lies. Curtis attempted a slick segue into the closing remarks from Alan Moss, vp of global ad sales.
“This time, we don’t need to go undercover to save the day,” she said. “We just need to remind these hard-working people … about the benefits of Amazon’s full-funnel advertising strategy. I actually asked if that was a euphemism.”
