Amazon Prime Video To Share ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season Five UK Premiere With Channel 4 Following MGM Buy
deadline.comAmazon Prime Video is to co-premiere The Handmaid’s Tale for the first time in the UK with Channel 4. The fifth season of Hulu’s original will land on both networks later this year in a deal rarely seen in the UK TV world.
MGM is international distributor of the dystopian Margaret Atwood thriller, which is created by Bruce Miller and stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes and O-T Fagbenle, and the move comes just a few months after Amazon acquired MGM, thereby giving Prime Video access to its distributor’s catalog worldwide.
All four seasons are currently available on both Channel 4 and Prime Video in the UK. The move could dent viewership for Channel 4, which has used The Handmaid’s Tale as an example in recent years of the success of its acquisitions department and growth of VoD player All4.
The platform carries a number of major U.S. imports and acquisitions have become a big part of its strategy. Amazon similarly takes UK rights to Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens with the BBC in the UK, although that show is given a short BBC window before premiering on Prime Video.
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