A roundup of January new releases from Amazon Prime Video
Amazon’s big news this month is its attempt to horn in on one of Netflix’s most lucrative rackets, the stand-up comedy special. The comedy push began last August when Jim Gaffigan, with five Netflix specials under his belt, went to Amazon with Quality Time. In the first month of 2020, half of the new content is stand-up, with two Americans , a Brit and the inevitable Canadian .
James May: Our Man in Japan Amazon’s automotive series The Grand Tour , has been successful enough that the individual presenters are getting their own shows. The first of them is this travelogue starring James May, who went to Japan for three months to learn about the country and culture, including a visit to a “penis festival” in Nagasaki. He also admitted to Deadline.com that this show was an idea that the BBC rejected; Amazon appears to be the place to go if you want to show up the BBC.
Treadstone This spinoff of the Jason Bourne series, created by Tim Kring, already premiered in the U.S. on the USA cable network, but Amazon has the international rights . Like Kring’s most famous show, Heroes, it’s about people who have nothing in common except that they have been granted extraordinary superpowers that are only just now being awakened. Except in this show, they’re CIA-trained sleeper agents who turn into unstoppable killing machines when their abilities are triggered.
Russell Peters: Deported The Canadian comic recorded his new comedy special at the NSCI Stadium in Mumbai, part of an 18-month, 30-country tour called “The Deported World Tour.”
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