“The Expanse” received a “very limited” amount of marketing support while at Syfy, says Johnson, meaning the show built its passionate fanbase on word of mouth. That marketing push has been the biggest difference that the duo have noticed since the move to Amazon. “Alcon continues to produce and finance the show, but it is now under one umbrella at Amazon, and now the show is being marketed and pushed out by Amazon in a way that it has reached a much broader audience.” “Amazon was able to re-purchase all the rights to the show globally,” he continues. So when the Alcon chiefs came knocking on Amazon’s door, “the whole thing just made sense,” says Kosove. When Alcon and Syfy struck a deal for “The Expanse” back in 2013, it was for the linear rights only, meaning that Alcon was later able to sell some of the international distribution rights to Amazon. “It was a fairly seamless situation, they already had some rights to the show, they were big fans, everyone had written about how Jeff Bezos enjoys it personally. “It happened at lightning speed,” says Kosove. Taking Variety inside how the deal went down, Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, co-CEOs of Alcon Entertainment which produces “The Expanse,” say it was precisely two weeks to the day between the moment Syfy decided not to exercise its option for fourth season, and the moment Bezos said the words, “I just got word that ‘The Expanse’ is saved.” All this culminated in Bezos announcing the pickup himself during a speech at the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles in 2018, with the show’s creatives, including showrunner Naren Shankar, present in the room. astronauts who are fans of the show took the less-than small step of sharing their support on social media. Martin (among others) sent a message to Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos asking him to save the show and real-life U.S. To recap, fans paid for a plane to fly over the Amazon Studios offices with a #SaveTheExpanse banner “Game of Thrones” creator George R.R. Much has been written of the wild story of how “The Expanse” fell into Amazon’s lap.
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Season 4 of the high-concept space series dropped Thursday on the streamer, and most involved in the story of how “The Expanse” was rescued agree that Amazon was a better fit for the galactic caper all along. Take “ The Expanse” moving to Amazon Prime Video after three seasons on Syfy, for instance.
Some moves feel more like a marriage of convenience, while others feel like a more obvious fit. In the content space race currently being fought out in the entertainment industry, shows getting picked up by one platform after being dumped by another is becoming a more frequent phenomenon.
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