Amazon Prime Video has 2,500 hours of Jim Henson Co. content

Following the release of Jim Henson Co.’s sci-fi series Farscape on Amazon Prime Video, the entertainment company is bringing 2,500 hours of classic programming into the platform. Most will be available in 67 different territories, which includes Canada. Subscribers can expect to get original five seasons of Fraggle Rock (all 96 episodes), The Storyteller, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, and Mother Goose Stories. What isn’t coming to the country is Pajanimals. You can view the content available through a dedicated Amazon landing page for Jim Henson Co. at this link, available to subscribers of Prime or the standalone Amazon Prime Video service.

Source: Variety

Amazon Prime Video saves 'The Expanse'

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just announced that Amazon Prime Video will save The Expanse which will see a Season 4 coming to the streaming video service. This is huge news as fans of this transcendent science fiction series based on the books from author James S.A. Corey, The Expanse was cancelled by Syfy Channel in the US ( Space channel in Canada) earlier this month which prodded millions of fans to rally behind the show and launch a #Savetheexpanse movement.

Based on a series of nine books, The Expanse TV series (shot here in Toronto) is one of the best cast, intelligently produced and engaging sci-fi shows on TV. The beauty of the show is that while it is on its third season, it's barely scraping the tip of the iceberg of this epic show. Kudos to Amazon for seeing the value of good programming. This alone is worth the subcription to Amazon Prime Video.

Amazon Prime Video reveals its May releases

Just in case you missed it, Amazon Prime Video also recently added new seasons of Bosch, The Good Fight, Fear of The Walking Dead, along with full seasons of Degrassi, Dawson’s Creek, Friday Night Lights and many more. Hit jump for the full list of shows.

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Warner Bros will support new Samsung-led HDR10+ standard

You may or may not have heard of the newest High Dynamic Range (HDR) standard to come out in the past year. But now its three founding companies—Samsung, Panasonic, and 20^th Century Fox—just shared some updates on HDR10+ and what we can expect from the platform. This Dolby Vision competitor is said to soon make its way to “content companies, ultra-high definition TVs, Blu-ray disc players/recorders and set-top box manufacturers, as well as SoC vendors.” Moving forward, the three companies will be incorporating the standard in “all future Ultra HD movie releases, selected TVs, Ultra HD Blu-ray player/recorders, and other products.” And unlike its Dolby counterpart, Samsung, in a press release, emphasizes that using HDR10+ will be royalty-free and will only require a “nominal annual administration fee” to use the standard. Updates about the new format will be put up on this new site.

One of the bigger announcements, though, is that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be enabling this dynamic metadata solution to its content for Samsung, Panasonic and other HDR10+ capable 4K HDR TVs. Amazon Prime Video already supports the standard with its Prime Video HDR library already offering HDR10+ and can be seen on Prime Originals like The Grand Tour, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, The Tick and The Man in the High Castle.