IMDb TV now available in UK through Amazon Prime Video, global rollout could follow

(Pocket-lint) - Amazon has launched its ad-supported, escaped TV streaming service, IMDb TV, successful the UK.

It is disposable done the Prime Video app for mobile, astute TVs and set-top-boxes, and includes a stack of TV amusement programming, immoderate streamed crossed "live channels", and a full big of archive movies. Kill Bill volumes 1 and 2 are available, for example, arsenic is Pulp Fiction.

TV bid disposable see The A-Team, Dawson's Creek, and respective IMDb TV originals, specified arsenic Top Class and Moment of Truth.

IMDb TV is easy discoverable done the Amazon Prime Video app, with its ain conception of the TV and Movies menus (under "Popular TV - Free with ads" and "Popular Movies - Free with ads"). Tere are plans for it to get its ain Fire TV app too.

According to the service's co-head of contented and programming, Lauren Anderson, it volition disagree somewhat from the US mentation (as launched successful 2019). It volition diagnostic much British and European content.

The different co-head, Ryan Pirozzi, claims it besides offers an alternate to existing escaped streaming services successful the country: "UK customers are utilized to escaped streaming, but a batch of the escaped streamers successful the UK are truly specialised oregon doing 1 thing, beryllium it world oregon scripted, helium told The Hollywood Reporter.

"We’re genre agnostic, scripted to unscripted, drama to drama, hr to half-hour, and we anticipation that our wide breadth of enactment separates america from different lawsuit alternatives."

We're not wholly definite that you could telephone BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All4, My5 oregon UKTV Play specialised, but we're consenting to springiness IMDb TV the payment of the doubt. After all, it does connection each 5 seasons of Babylon 5.

Pirozzi besides hints that the rollout could proceed beyond the UK. He told the HR that arsenic Amazon besides started arsenic “just a US transactional service” it would beryllium "logical that we would support going".

That's nary warrant it'll deed different regions, but we'll support you informed if and erstwhile it does.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 29 September 2021.