It was also announced that the service would add original films to its slate, beginning with the romantic comedy Love Accidentally, starring Brenda Song and Aaron O'Connell.
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On April 13, 2022, it was announced that a spinoff of the Prime Video series Bosch, titled Bosch: Legacy, would premiere on the service on May 6, 2022, and that the coming-of-age series High School, based on the memoir by Tegan and Sara and adapted by Clea DuVall, would premiere in 2022. On February 22, 2021, it was announced that Norman Lear had set up two projects at IMDb TV, half-hour long comedy Clean Slate and hour long drama Loteria. Tribunal will be presided over by now former Hot Bench judges, Tanya Acker and Patricia DiMango, along with Sheindlin's son, former district attorney Adam Levy. The series will be presented in the form of a 3-judge panel, like Hot Bench (another production from Sheindlin, only for CBS). The program will feature her longtime Judge Judy program bailiff, Petri Hawkins-Byrd. Sheindlin's personal production team will bring another court show to Freevee, entitled Tribunal. Towards the end of the first season, Judy Justice was granted a second season after it was hailed as a big hit for Freevee with record viewership hours for the streaming service (viewership results measured by hours watched as opposed to rating numbers as Nielsen ratings does not cover steaming services). Amazon has bargained on Sheindlin to attract her legions of viewers and fanfare from Judge Judy over to their streaming service for Judy Justice. With significantly high stakes in the program, Amazon ordered 120 episodes for the first season alone which concluded on April 15, 2022, and served as the largest initial order package for a streaming series.
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Judy Justice premiered on IMDb TV on November 1, 2021. Production on Judy Justice began as CBS's long-running Judge Judy ended on July 23, 2021. On October 29, 2020, Amazon Studios announced it would produce, for the service, the successor program to Judge Judy, entitled Judy Justice and still starring former Manhattan Family Court Judge Judith Sheindlin. IMDb TV acquired the rights to Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television's young-adult espionage series Alex Rider, premiering a series adaptation on November 13, 2020. On October 3, 2019, IMDb TV announced it licensed the Canadian animated series Corner Gas Animated as a branded original series, joining the live-action comedy franchise Corner Gas and the feature film Corner Gas: The Movie, which were both on the streaming platform. Main article: List of Amazon Freevee original programmingĪ reboot of the 2008 crime drama series Leverage was ordered by IMDb TV, making it the first major original series for the streaming service. On August 3, 2022, Amazon Freevee was launched in Germany. Its first announced moves post-rebrand included renewing Bosch: Legacy pre-premiere as well as Top Class, ordering America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation and a new series adaptation of Black Beauty and expanding Play-Doh: Squished beyond its holiday special. It was also announced that it would launch in Germany later that year, and would expand its original programming by 70% in 2022. On April 13, 2022, it was announced that the service would be rebranded as Amazon Freevee beginning on April 27. In September 2021, Amazon announced the launch of IMDb TV in the United Kingdom it was formerly available only in the United States. Amazon announced that it would be moving IMDb TV's content team to within Amazon Studios on February 20, 2020, with the goal of developing original programming under new IMDb TV co-heads. Signing new deals with Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM Studios (which parent company Amazon later acquired on March 17, 2022), the streaming service began offering new content. On June 17, 2019, IMDb Freedive announced its rebranding to IMDb TV. The video on demand (VOD) service is available in the US and UK on both Amazon and IMDb's websites as well as on all Amazon Fire devices. Amazon Freevee launched as a free, ad-supported video channel by the Amazon-owned online database IMDb in January 2019, under the name IMDb Freedive.