Prime Video Germany Kicks On With ‘All Or Nothing’ Germany Doc-Collection – Deadline

Amazon has unveiled its 2022-23 German originals slate because it up funding within the nation, with new Prime Video comedy exhibits and the newest All or Nothing soccer doc among the many highlights. On the identical time, Prime Video Channels will quickly provide Discovery+ and Paramount+ as add-ons.

At a Prime Video Presents Germany showcase occasion as we speak in Munich, Prime Video Nation Director Kaspar Pflüger stated the corporate would “proceed to speculate massively within the German-speaking area,” as native content material chief Philip Pratt revealed seems to be at fantasy collection The Gryphon, Eighties-set drama collection Luden and the difference of Sebastian Fitzek’s The Remedy, and introduced a number of new exhibits, together with one other All or Nothing collection within the soccer-mad nation.

The All or Nothing docu-series will comply with the German nationwide soccer group’s journey to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, exhibiting what goes on in entrance of and behind the scenes on the match. Amazon Studios is producing in affiliation with UFA Documentary, with Christian Twente the director and Marc Lepetit the producer. Prime Video has already run All or Nothing docs on main golf equipment Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

Additionally on the slate is a “mysterious new” comedy from LOL: Final One Laughing Germany ensemble star Joko Winterscheidt, during which he’s writing and starring. “I can be on Prime Video from the start of subsequent yr. Will probably be completely different, it will likely be loopy, even very loopy. It would even depart you disturbed. Simply watch it,” he stated.

There will even be one other season of LOL, which is Prime Video Germany’s hottest present. It should return in Spring subsequent yr, as Pratt seeks to determine April because the present’s annual launch date. On the occasion, LOL host Michael Bully Herbig launched new superstar individuals for the fourth season, during which comedians try and make one another snicker whereas sitting in a rigged room for a number of hours. Constantin Leisure is producing, with Otto Steiner the producer and Anna Franz the manager producer.

Additionally new is HILLarious, an unique eight-part sketch comedy present from actress and comic Martina Hill. That includes superstar friends for particular sketches, it comes from Redseven Leisure in collaboration with Hillux Movie- und Fernsehproduktion for Prime Video. There’s additionally four-part doc Hunted (working title), which seems to be on the profession, successes, and crashes of former German bike owner Jan Ullrich. Constantin Dokumentation is connected and Sebastian Dehnhardt is directing.

Til Schweiger’s movie Lieber Kurt will make its streaming premiere on Prime Video in Spring subsequent yr, just a few months after its theatrical launch.

As Deadline lately revealed, Prime Video can also be lining up Silver (working title), a characteristic based mostly on the best-selling novel collection of the identical identify by Kerstin Gier with a solid together with Jana McKinnon, Riva Krymalowski, Rhys Mannion, Chaneil Kular and Efeosa Afolabi amongst others.

“Our ambition for our Amazon Originals from Germany is rising year-on-year,” stated Pratt, Head of German Originals at Amazon Studios.

“We’re releasing codecs with among the greatest creatives within the German-speaking world, together with Joko Winterscheidt, Martina Hill, Teddy Teclebrhan, and plenty of extra. And we deliver viewers nearer to their idols than ever earlier than: Rap star Apache allow us to accompany him for the primary time for a really private documentary, Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich talks completely in regards to the highs and lows of his profession, and we accompany the nationwide soccer group behind the scenes of the 2022 World Cup match.”

Launch dates & Prime Video Channels growth

Pratt revealed six-part W&B Tv and DogHaus Movie’s drama The Gryphon (Die Greif), based mostly on Wolfgang Hohlbein’s fantasy novel, will launch mid-2023, whereas Neuesuper’s Reeperbahn gangster collection Luden debuts in spring. Ziegler Movie’s psychological drama The Therapy debuts within the fall subsequent subsequent yr, whereas Prime Video Germany’s first true-crime collection German Crime Story: Tied Up, from Neue Bioskop Tv, goes out early subsequent yr.

On September 23 this month, characteristic doc Apache stays Apache, about rapper Volkan Yaman aka Apache 207, will launch, whereas the second season of Die Discounter debuts on November 11. Love story characteristic Sacher Cake, comedy collection Love Addicts and seasonal collection Peaceable Christmas all received launch dates this yr, and the primary photos from Save Me, the collection based mostly on Mona Kasten’s novel, had been unveiled.

Elsewhere on the occasion, Pflüger revealed Discovery+ can be “imminently” obtainable as an add-on subscription for Prime members, with Paramount+ additionally becoming a member of the platform at the tip of the yr.

“We are going to proceed to speculate massively within the German-speaking area to supply Prime Video viewers the widest alternative and number of content material,” stated Pflüger. “Our objective is to supply Prime Video viewers the best doable collection of content material with the best doable flexibility — together with content material obtainable free with advertisements on Amazon Freevee, unique Amazon Originals, licensed codecs, stay sports activities, live-streamed public TV channels, add-on Prime Video Channels for much more alternative and the newest cinema highlights and plenty of extra movies and TV collection to purchase and hire.”