Amazon Freevee: ‘Bosch: Legacy’ Renewed For Season 2, Unscripted Orders, Disney Film Deal & Remake Of British Series ‘Inside No. 9’ In The Works

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Amazon Freevee, the ad-funded streaming service, has unveiled a raft of renewals, unscripted orders and developments following its rebrand from IMDb TV.The company unveiled the service’s new name at the start of April and it went live at the end of the month.

It unveiled the news at its NewFronts advertising event in New York.Bosch: Legacy, the spinoff of the long-running Amazon crime series has been renewed ahead of its premiere with Lauren Anderson, who is Co-Head of Content & Programming alongside Ryan Pirozzi, teasing potential plans for even more series in the Bosch universe.

It has also renewed LeBron James-exec produced docuseries Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers for a third and fourth season.In addition to a short-term film deal with Disney, the streamer handed series orders to unscripted formats America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation and Play-Doh Squished, the Sarah Hyland-hosted series that originally launched as a holiday special, YA drama Beyond Black Beauty and a Post Malone music documentary.

It is also developing a remake of BBC series Inside No. 9.  “The business has evolved [over the last 12 months],” Anderson told Deadline. “When we were thinking about where we were last year versus where we are right now, on the originals side, we were really talking about a lot of development and we had primarily acquisitions.