EXCLUSIVE: A day after Amazon Freevee’s Jury Obligation made Emmy historical past as the primary AVOD present to land main nominations, together with Excellent Comedy Sequence, the documentary-style half-hour is extending its keep on Amazon’s fundamental platform, Prime Video.
Jury Obligation, which is an Amazon Freevee authentic, had been given a promotional second window on Prime Video, which was slated to finish as we speak. As Deadline’s awards columnist Pete Hammond famous in his Emmy evaluation yesterday, there was a countdown on Jury Obligation‘s Prime Video episodes informing subscribers of their imminent departure. It has now been eliminated.
It’s unclear how lengthy Jury Obligation would stay additionally out there on Prime Video, making it extra simply accessible to followers in addition to TV Academy members past the Academy’s web site. The second section of Emmy voting is presently scheduled to wrap on Aug. 28.
Yesterday, Jury Obligation was nominated for 4 Emmys, together with Excellent Comedy Sequence, upsetting high-profile newcomers like Poker Face and Shrinking to land a spot within the class, in addition to Supporting Actor for James Marsden, Writing for Mekki Leeper and Casting for Susie Farris.
“I give an unimaginable quantity of credit score to the writers, Cody Heller, Andrew Weinberg, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky; Nick Hatton, certainly one of our unimaginable producers; the forged who have been all distinctive clearly James, and everybody else within the forged who actually devoted a lot of their life to the present,” Jury Obligation govt producer David Bernad instructed Deadline yesterday.
Jury Obligation chronicles the interior workings of a jury trial by way of the eyes of a juror (Gladden) who’s unaware your complete case is pretend, and everybody he meets is an actor and every little thing that occurs — contained in the courtroom and out — is rigorously deliberate.
“We’re so pleased with the Freevee group and the Jury Obligation group. It’s such a daring concept, and it might have gone incorrect in so some ways,” Amazon Studios’ Head of Tv Vernon Sanders instructed Deadline yesterday. “This has been a word-of-mouth present. It simply blew up over TikTok and to today, individuals are discovering the present and loving it.”
