BBC Studios' BBC Select streaming service to launch in Canada in 2021

BBC Studios will be launching its new streaming service in Canada and the US in early 2021. BBC Select is described as a TV service for "independent thinkers." It'll arrive on Amazon Prime Video and the Apple TV app, specializing in factual programming, highlighting culture, politics, and ideas. According to BBC Studios, the service will celebrate diverse voices through a candid, unbiased, and occasionally playful lens.

Some of the initial shows you can expect are Louis Theroux's BBC documentaries Selling Sex and Surviving America's Most Hated Family, and Channel 4's Grayson Perry: Big American Road Trip. There will also be exclusives like classicist Mary Beard's Shock of the Nude, Reggie Yates in China, Putin – A Russian Spy Story, and Adam Curtis' All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace.

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Amazon Prime Video launches 'Video Watch Party' feature in Canada

Finding ways to be "together" these days has us getting more creative. Amazon Prime Video announced 'Prime Video Watch Party' just in ties for the holidays.

Prime Video customers in Canada can now enjoy Prime Video Watch Party, a native social viewing experience on desktop that is available for Prime members at no additional cost to their Prime membership.

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Amazon teases 'The Boys' Season 2

Amazon is bringing The Boys back, and it's looking as bloody as ever. The second season will be hitting Amazon Prime Video in 2020, but the company won't say when. The trailer shows us all of the major players at the end of the last season are back. And the show will not hold back on the gore. We don't expect the show to hold back on the bloodshed nor on the difficult subjects it tackled during the first season.

Bourne Universe-based 'Treadstone' series to premiere on Amazon Prime Video in January 2020

Amazon just released a new teaser video for the action-thriller Treadstone, which will premiere on its Prime Video service in January 2020. The series is set in the "Bourne" universe, and it's produced by the team behind the famous action movie franchise. Treadstone focuses on the origin story and present-day activities of Operation Treadstone. Those familiar with the books and movies will know what the name stands for. It refers to the covert CIA Black Ops program that used behaviour modification to turn recruits into these superhuman assassins of sorts. The series will follow these sleeper agents around the world as someone wakes them up to continue with their deadly mission.