This week Amazon’s Prime Video will be adding the complete season 1 of a comedy TV series and an LGBTQ+ biographical drama, as well as continuing with their weekly TV show releases and updating their back catalog. Over the last two years, the release model around theatrical releases has been a little shaky at best. As a result, movies have been tending to move to streaming faster, if not being released their first, as recently happened for the extremely successful Turning Red on Disney+. This has meant that streaming services like Amazon’s Prime Video have been able to increase their output of newer movies and enable more viewers to enjoy this content from the comfort of their own homes, alongside a bastion of new TV shows and older movies.
Last week, Amazon’s big Prime Video release was Spencer, a fictionalized account of Princess Diana’s 1991 Christmas based on her struggles under the expectations surrounding her loveless marriage to Prince Charles. Kristen Stewart starred as Princess Diana herself in Spencer and her performance has been lauded for its quality. Amazon also released Arsène Wenger: Invincible one Prime Video, a documentary about the legendary and longest-serving manager of the Arsenal football team and how he guided them through their “invincible” season in 2003-2004. Finally, Prime Video debuted the full first season of the reality show Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls in which Lizzo runs a competition to find a cadre of backup dancers that share Lizzo’s own body type.
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All of the different streaming services have their own approaches to release schedules. While many use a form of weekly model that sees all of their new releases drop on one
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