It’s a good question, I think, because to be honest, although it occasionally turfs out something watchable, for the most part, Amazon’s TV content is a bit lacking – certainly not up there with Netflix’s. Well, now Amazon’s released some details and some infographics to give us a clue (no subscriber numbers or ratings, mind…):
Globally, season one of The Grand Tour was among the biggest series, along with Sneaky Pete, seasons one and two of The Man in the High Castle, and The Tick. Not 100% surprising, any of that, and it does go to show you how little impact anything else Amazon has created has had. No Transparent? No Mozart in the Jungle? They’ve been on for seasons now.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
