'Jury Duty' Extends Main Video Run After Emmy Breakout
'Jury Duty' Extends Main Video Run After Emmy Breakout
EXCLUSIVE: One day after Amazon Freevee's Jury Duty scored Emmy history as the first AVOD show to land major nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series, the documentary-style half-hour extends its stay on Amazon's main platform, Prime Video.
Jury Duty, which is an Amazon Freevee original, had received a second promotional window on Prime Video, which was supposed to end today. As Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond noted in his Emmy analysis yesterday, there was a countdown on Prime Video episodes of Jury Duty notifying subscribers of their impending departure. It has now been deleted.
It's unclear how long Jury Duty would also remain available on Prime Video, making it more easily accessible to fans as well as TV Academy members beyond the Academy site. The second phase of Emmy voting is currently scheduled to end on August 28.
Yesterday, Jury Duty was nominated for four Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy Series, upsetting high-profile newcomers like Poker Face and Shrinking to land a spot in the category, as well as supporting actor for James Marsden, writing for Mekki Leeper and casting for Susie Faris.
"I give incredible credit to the writers, Cody Heller, Andrew Weinberg, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky; Nick Hatton, one of our amazing producers; the actors who were all outstanding, obviously James, and all the other cast members who really dedicated a huge part of their lives to the show," the executive producer said yesterday. by Jury Duty, David Bernad, to Deadline.
Jury Duty tells the inner workings of a jury trial through the eyes of a juror (Gladden) who is unaware that the whole case is fake, and everyone he meets is actors and everything that happens - inside and outside the courtroom - is carefully planned.
"We are so proud of Team Freevee and Team Jury Duty< /em> . It's such a bold idea, and it could have gone wrong in so many ways," Vernon Sanders, head of television at Amazon Studios, told Deadline yesterday. "It's been a mouth-to-mouth show. It just blew up on TikTok and to this day people are finding the show and loving it."
EXCLUSIVE: One day after Amazon Freevee's Jury Duty scored Emmy history as the first AVOD show to land major nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series, the documentary-style half-hour extends its stay on Amazon's main platform, Prime Video.
Jury Duty, which is an Amazon Freevee original, had received a second promotional window on Prime Video, which was supposed to end today. As Deadline awards columnist Pete Hammond noted in his Emmy analysis yesterday, there was a countdown on Prime Video episodes of Jury Duty notifying subscribers of their impending departure. It has now been deleted.
It's unclear how long Jury Duty would also remain available on Prime Video, making it more easily accessible to fans as well as TV Academy members beyond the Academy site. The second phase of Emmy voting is currently scheduled to end on August 28.
Yesterday, Jury Duty was nominated for four Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy Series, upsetting high-profile newcomers like Poker Face and Shrinking to land a spot in the category, as well as supporting actor for James Marsden, writing for Mekki Leeper and casting for Susie Faris.
"I give incredible credit to the writers, Cody Heller, Andrew Weinberg, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky; Nick Hatton, one of our amazing producers; the actors who were all outstanding, obviously James, and all the other cast members who really dedicated a huge part of their lives to the show," the executive producer said yesterday. by Jury Duty, David Bernad, to Deadline.
Jury Duty tells the inner workings of a jury trial through the eyes of a juror (Gladden) who is unaware that the whole case is fake, and everyone he meets is actors and everything that happens - inside and outside the courtroom - is carefully planned.
"We are so proud of Team Freevee and Team Jury Duty< /em> . It's such a bold idea, and it could have gone wrong in so many ways," Vernon Sanders, head of television at Amazon Studios, told Deadline yesterday. "It's been a mouth-to-mouth show. It just blew up on TikTok and to this day people are finding the show and loving it."
