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Neil Gaiman's American Gods to launch on Amazon Video

The series will launch exclusively on Amazon Prime for viewers in the UK, Germany, Austria and Japan in 2017.

The show boasts an all-star cast including Ricky Whittle (The 100, Austenland), Ian McShane (Pirates of the Carribbean), Emily Browning (Legend), Gillian Anderson (The X Files, The Fall) and Kristen Chenoweth (Glee, Wicked).

Sky announces major new co-production deal with Amazon US

Britannia is a big-budget drama set in 43AD as the Roman Imperial Army returns to crush the wild heartlands of Britannia, where the wild Celtic warriors and druids hold sway over the population.

The series stars Kelly Reilly (True Detective), David Morrissey (The Walking Dead), Zoë Wannamaker (Harry Potter) and Stanley Weber (Outlander).

Matt Bomer and Kelsey Grammer to star in new Amazon pilot

Matt Bomer, ComiCon

The Season is a chance for Amazon users to offer feedback and respond to new shows before the are commissioned for a full series.

According to Amazon’s Roy Price, the company are “focused on bringing customers compelling, must-see TV and we accomplish this by going directly to them for input.”

He added, "Our process has proven to work time and time again. their feedback has helped create series that have become fan favourites among critics and customers."

Are children being spoilt for choice when it comes to TV?

Disney's Frozen

To many adults, the choice of viewing options for children is as incomprehensible as the whistling language of The Clangers. There is now a myriad of platforms, apps and subscription video-­on-demand (SVoD) services offering access to children’s shows. They include Amazon, Netflix, Freeview Play, YouView and Sky Go.

Children can watch their favourite CBBC shows, such as The Next Step, via the BBC iPlayer – or catch up with Nickelodeon brands, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, on the app Nick Play.

Sky 'not worried' about competition from Netflix and Amazon says Gary Davey

Sky, Sky Arts, television, Europe, Damian Lewis, Gary Davey, Pat Younge, Sugar Films, The Hospital Club,

Speaking at an RTS Early Evening Event Davey said that despite the proliferation of ways of watching content linear channels would continue to survive. 

“Channels will always be around. | cannot see a future where they don’t exist,” said Davey, a pay TV veteran who was part of the team that helped establish the pioneering satellite broadcaster in the early 1990s.  

“There is a revolution going on but it’s happening a lot slower than people think…

TV comedy experts examine the challenges facing the genre

Nerys Evans, Simon Lupton, Gregor Sharp, Jessica Knappett and Boyd Hilton

The classic sitcom no longer rules the TV schedules in the way that shows such as Fawlty Towers, Open All Hours and Porridge did in the 1970s. Or does it?

A panel of TV practitioners attempted to tease out the answer last month at an RTS early-­evening event, “No laughing matter: how does comedy fight back?” This stimulating debate made one think that we could be living through another golden age of TV comedy without necessarily knowing it.

NAB 2015: To the Internet and Beyond

1. Why your TV should talk to your toaster: connected-TV and the 'internet of things'

One of the big draws at television technology shows such as NAB in Las Vegas is the "living room of the future", with its wall-filling, multi-image, interactive TV screen. Such "wallpaper displays" are still, largely, mock-ups, not demonstrations of real services.

But the "internet of things" (IoT) – the multiplication of connected devices, body-worn sensors and Cloud data services – could soon make such TVs a reality.