Amazon Puts Forth New Mandate for Prime Video Offerings, Intends to Get its Own ‘Game of Thrones’

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">For decades now&comma; the Indian television has encouraged the production of original series and has always bagged a large viewership&period; With the emergence of new&comma; high-quality&comma; and contemporary web series through the e-commerce behemoth Amazon Prime Video&comma; the Indian audience has been taken special care of&period; The providers haven’t just kept an assortment of multiple themes&comma; but also have content for all age demographics&period; To their help have come Bollywood directors&comma; Kabir Khan and Farah Khan who are working on shows that would serve the audience as India’s Western&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;amazonsaleoffers&period;com&sol;amazon-sale-offers-for-laptops&sol;">Check out the best of Amazon laptop sale here<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Amazon claimed to open Prime Video in India with 17 shows in 2016&comma; which clearly did not happen&period; However&comma; Amazon now stated that it is aiming for 10 originals for its Indian viewers&period; It now plans to focus more on mass-appeal shows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Ever since the CEO of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;goo&period;gl&sol;J59hzb">Amazon<&sol;a> Jeff Bezos let out a mandate which stated that the Prime Video offerings would incorporate having their own series of Game of Thrones&period; This came as a result of the Lord of Rings prequel series which gained a whopping &dollar;250 million&period; It’s as they say&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Amazon does not like losing&comma; even when they’re winning&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">One of the main reasons as to why Amazon Prime Video is desperately looking for its own Game of Thrones series is that its counter competitors- Netflix&comma; Hulu and HBO are continuously putting up blockbusters where at the same time Amazon Prime Video is still a niche player&period; And in this race of getting among the top entertainers&comma; it is ready to lose out on its shows like- Z&colon; The Beginning of Everything&comma; which was basically a show that focused on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald&period; The first season of the show was quite a hit&comma; however&comma; the second season was called off all due to the hunt for a series like Game of Thrones&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">However&comma; it has been quite some time that the viewer’s haven’t seen any series that resembles Game of Thrones&comma; or rather anything fantasy&period; Afterall&comma; looking for a series like this is a huge order&period; Series like Star Wars&comma; Game of Thrones&comma; and even Harry Potter have a great cultural impact and can’t just pop up&period; A success like the one these shows earned is an incredibly tough one to predict&period; The series of The Man in The High Castle by Amazon Prime Video did&comma; however&comma; stand close by its surprisingly great offering&period; However not many know about the same&comma; hence it did not have such an impact&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In my opinion&comma; for Amazon to hunt for a series idea like that of Game of Thrones it&&num;8217&semi;s going to take some key acquisition deals which would subsequently allow them to convert a book or comic series into a hit show for Amazon&period; Or the HR would just have to hunt or some incredibly talented writers that could create an original series which would be a hit just like Thrones&period; Just like Amazon has always succeeded on their agendas&comma; they would succeed on this one as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">At the end of the day&comma; in this era&comma; when entertainment has found out its way through the online mediums to reach the customers&comma; platforms such as Amazon Prime Video are equivalent to a brand&period; This is because Amazon not only caters to the need of its potential customers with a wide variety of shows but also provides numerous attractive originals&period; The sole reason as to why they have attracted huge crowds as their viewers and earned lots of love from the critics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;