Amazon Deal With HBO Will Bring HBO Programming to Prime Members
For the first time ever, Amazon Prime members will be able to watch favorite HBO comedy specials like Lewis Black, Ellen DeGeneres, Louis CK and Bill Maher, and series like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Big Love, Eastbound & Down, Oz, Band of Brothers and Deadwood, as well as Early Seasons of Boardwalk Empire, Girls, The Newsroom, and Veep, for no charge outside of their monthly membership fees.
The first wave of content will arrive on Prime Instant Video May 21. HBO Go will also be available on AmazonFire by the end of the year. Amazon Fire is Amazon’s new tv streaming device (similar to AppleTV). HBO GO offers current HBO subscribers instant access to over 1,700 titles online including every episode of new and classic HBO series, HBO original films, miniseries, sports, documentaries, specials and a wide selection of blockbuster movies.
Beginning May 21, Amazon Prime members will have unlimited streaming access to:
- All seasons of classics like The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome and Six Feet Under, and of recent favorites such as Eastbound & Down, Enlightened and Flight of the Conchords
- Miniseries, including Angels in America, Band of Brothers, John Adams, The Pacific and Parade’s End
- Select seasons of current series such as Boardwalk Empire, Treme and True Blood
- Hit original movies like Game Change, Too Big To Fail and You Don’t Know Jack
- Documentaries including the Autopsy and Iceman series, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib and When the Levees Broke
- Original comedy specials from Lewis Black, Ellen DeGeneres, Louis CK and Bill Maher
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