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Amazon.com signs deal with Fox to add new instant streaming shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Friday 30 September 2011, by Webmaster

Amazon today announced a licensing agreement with Twentieth Century Fox that adds an extra 2,000 movie and TV shows to the deep content well available to Amazon Prime members. The new deal brings the total number of Amazon Prime instant videos to more than 11,000 when the movie and television shows becomes available later fall.

The Twentieth Century Fox films available to Amazon Prime members will include familiar names such as "Speed," "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Doctor Dolittle," "Last of the Mohicans," "Office Space," "The Longest Day," "All About Eve," "9 to 5," and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." On the television front, Twentieth Century Fox delivers "24," "The X-Files," "NYPD Blue," "Arrested Development," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Ally McBeal," and "The Wonder Years."

"We have received very positive feedback from Prime members about Prime instant videos. Customers love the instant access to thousands of movie and TV favorites," said Steve Oliver, director of Video at Amazon. "Since the launch of Prime instant videos in February, we have more than doubled the library to 11,000 titles and will continue to add more of our customers’ favorite movies and TV shows to Prime instant videos."

Amazon Prime members get unlimited, commercial-free, instant access to more than 11,000 movies and TV shows for $79 per year. The service is also compatible with hundreds of internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players, as well as Mac and PC computers.

Since the launch of Prime instant videos, Amazon has secured licensing deals from partners such as CBS, Fox, NBCUniversal, Sony, Warner Bros., IFC, Sesame Workshop, and many more.