Amazon's Prime Video has shifted its strategic focus towards live sports and away from original television shows and movies, seeking to meet internal corporate profit targets, The Information reported on Friday.

In the summer of 2022, a year after becoming CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy wanted the executives running the company’s Prime Video business to tell him why it was spending billions of dollars a year on expensive shows such as “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” and “Citadel.

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Julie C. Dao’s fantasy book series “ Rise of the Empress ” will come to life on the small screen, as Amazon Prime Video has ordered a series adaptation.

Now, Beast Games has finally been dethroned for the first time since launch by a new Amazon Original Series, On Call, a police drama that dropped all its episodes at once in a binge model just a few days ago, something of a rarity for Amazon. Here’s the synopsis:

Amazon’s Prime Video has shifted its strategic focus towards live sports and away from original television shows and movies, seeking to meet internal corporate profit targets, The Information reported on Friday.

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN)'s Prime Video is reportedly shifting its strategic focus towards live sports broadcasting, moving away from its traditional reliance on original television shows and movies. The move is part of an effort to meet corporate profit targets,