Prime TV: Best New Shows & Movies This Week (February 7)

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This week Amazon Prime Video is releasing a romantic comedy and a documentary about a famous athlete. After the events of the past two years, many big studios are still struggling with how best to handle either moving back to large theatrical releases or simply releasing their movies to streaming. This affected a recent Amazon release with Hotel Transylvania: Transformania releasing directly on Prime Video in January after being delayed from its initial October 2021 theatrical release plan. However, even when movies do reach the big screen before going to streaming, they are starting to arrive on streaming platforms much sooner than they used to.

Last week, Amazon released an original docuseries called Phat Tuesdays: The Era Of Hip Hop Comedy that dove into the history of Guy Torry’s iconic all-black comedy show. They also released all eight episodes of the new Amazon Original series Reacher, which adapts Lee Child’s first novel, Killing Floor, starring Alan Ritchson. Amazon also made some older movies available on Prime Video with the first six movies in the Fast & Furious franchise and Will Smith’s 2008 film Seven Pounds.

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While some streaming services operate on a weekly release schedule that sees most of their releases arriving on a single day of the week, Amazon’s Prime Video uses a monthly schedule that causes their releases to be spread out across the week and month. New content usually includes a selection of Amazon original content, relatively new movies and TV shows that are arriving on streaming for the first time, and some older media that is coming to Amazon’s Prime Video for the first time. The first part of the year is a slow time for