Prime Video Bosses On Drama Push, Emmy Nominations & Season 2 Status Of ‘Fallout’ & ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’, Potential ‘Jury Duty’ Followup

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In 2018, Prime Video was the first streamer to land an Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and then repeated as winner in the top comedy category with Fleabag the following year.

After cracking the Outstanding Drama Series field with a nomination for The Boys in 2021, Prime Video had a drama breakthrough this year with two series in the top category, Kilter Films’ Fallout, based on the Bethesda video games, and Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane’s Mr. & Mrs.

Smith, inspired by the 2005 film, which landed 16 nominations each for a 32 total. That accounted for the majority of Prime Video’s modest Emmy nomination haul of 37 this year, behind other major networks and streamers. (Notable among Prime Video’s other nominated programs is crowd pleaser Red, White & Royal Blue for Outstanding Television Movie.) While Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon MGM Studios, admitted that she would’ve liked to see limited series Expats and its star/executive producer Nicole Kidman recognized, she is happy with the streamer’s Emmy nomination performance. “The last few years we’ve been really committed to creating some really special global series that will resonate all over the world, always looking for that combination of a great vision and a passionate creator who cares deeply about the IP and has a reason to — or a vision — for reinventing it, and we found that with both of these projects,” Salke said of Fallout and Mr. & Mrs Smith. “Jonah [Nolan] and Kilter and [showrunners] Geneva [Robertson-Dworet] and Graham [Wagner] on Fallout came in with such a strong vision and connection to the team at Bethesda and bringing the story to life in a way that felt completely unique, really entertaining, post-apocalyptic but