Amazon & CBS Announce Streaming Content Licensing Deal

Amazon Prime Members Will Have Unlimited Access to Episodes of New CBS Summer Series Just Four Days After Their Initial Broadcast At No Additional Charge to Their Membership

Building on the success of Amazon’s exclusive in-season licensing agreement for Under the Dome, and Extant, Amazon and CBS today announced a new multi-year, multi-series agreement to make Prime Video the exclusive subscription streaming home for three new CBS summer series through 2018.

The first new CBS series included in this deal will be next summer’s highly anticipated comic-thriller Braindead, which Prime members in the U.S. will be able to stream just four days after broadcast at no additional charge to their membership.

Braindead is a comic thriller, set in the world of D.C. politics. The series follows a young fresh-faced Hill staffer (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) getting her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: the government has stopped working, and alien spawn have come to Earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of congressmen and Hill staffers.

“Prime members have loved having access to series like Under the Dome, and Extant just four days after broadcast, and we’re excited to continue to offer in-season availability of more great CBS summer series over the next three years,” said Brad Beale, Amazon Vice President of Digital Video Content Acquisition. “We are also always working to ensure our Prime members have the best selection, and we know they will continue to enjoy unlimited access to a wide array of CBS titles to binge-watch anytime, anywhere.”

This deal will also extend and expand CBS and SHOWTIME titles available to Prime members. Popular programming including Medium, The Tudors, The L Word, the original Twin Peaks series, America’s Next Top Model, I Love Lucy, Penn & Teller, The Amazing Race, MacGyver, Brotherhood, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

CBS Films available for Prime members include the Golden Globe-nominated films INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS and PRIDE, among others. Prime members can watch CBS titles and more via the Amazon Video app for TVs, connected devices and mobile devices, or online at  www.amazon.com/primevideo – Prime members can also download titles on iOS, Android and Fire devices for offline viewing. Customers who are not Prime members can sign-up for a 30-day free trial at  www.amazon.com/prime