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Talks ongoing: Jeff Bezos may get *The Expanse* revived for season 4 (Amazon style) - C C - May 22, 2018
http://deadline.com/2018/05/the-expanse-amazon-talks-pick-up-season-4-canceled-syfy-1202395538/
EXCERPT: Amazon Studios is in talks to revive one of CEO Jeff Bezos' favorite properties. The retailer and streaming outlet is near a deal to revive space drama *The Expanse* for a fourth season just 10 days after Syfy canceled the series. Amazon Studios declined comment as sources note the deal is not closed.
Starring Steven Strait and based on James S.A. Corey's best-selling book series of the same name, Syfy had only first-run linear rights in the U.S. to *The Expanse*. Amazon Studios had streaming rights to the first three seasons of the show.
Sources say Bezos is a big fan of the book and was livid that the TV series went to NBCUniversal-owned Syfy. The move is said to have ignited Bezos' demand that Amazon Studios brass find the company's version of *Game of Thrones*.
[...] Following the cancellation, producers Alcon Television Group — which fully financed and produced the series — planned to shop the space drama to other networks. [...] At Amazon, *The Expanse* will join a growing roster of genre programming including its upcoming *Lord of the Rings* TV franchise...
MORE: http://deadline.com/2018/05/the-expanse-amazon-talks-pick-up-season-4-canceled-syfy-1202395538/
ALSO: http://deadline.com/2018/05/the-expanse-amazon-talks-pick-up-season-4-canceled-syfy-1202395538/
RE: Talks ongoing: Jeff Bezos may get *The Expanse* revived for season 4 (Amazon style) - Yazata - May 27, 2018
Reports are coming in that the deal has indeed been done.
Apparently The Expanse is moving to the Amazon Prime streaming service for at least one additional year.
http://deadline.com/2018/05/the-expanse-amazon-picks-up-space-drama-series-season-4-syfy-cancellation-1202398511/
(Maybe it's time for me to sign up for Prime... I was a member for a trial month, but didn't use the streaming service very much and found that while shipping was faster, it was also less reliable... so I canceled it before it could start billing my credit card.)
RE: Talks ongoing: Jeff Bezos may get *The Expanse* revived for season 4 (Amazon style) - Magical Realist - May 28, 2018
Just as long as SyFy doesn't cancel "The Magicians" and "Channel Zero" I'll be fine!
RE: Talks ongoing: Jeff Bezos may get *The Expanse* revived for season 4 (Amazon style) - C C - May 28, 2018
(May 27, 2018 08:22 PM)Yazata Wrote: Reports are coming in that the deal has indeed been done.
At least any cliffhanger that the 3rd season might end on is no longer a looming, disappointing threat that might deter binge-watching it when it's completed.
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