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Amazon announced today that it has greenlit a brand new Prime Video original car racing series, Le Mans: Racing Is Everything. Documenting France’s grueling annual 24-hour race, the limited series will serve as the platform’s second original motorsports show following the global success of Jeremy Clarkson’s The Grand Tour.
According to a press release, the SVOD original series will be directed by Emmy Award-nominated James Erskine and produced by Victoria Gregory at the hands of their production company, New Black Films. The series, which features Australian Formula 1 legend Mark Webber and German three-time Le Mans champion André Lotterer, is a “unique human-interest driven series that will take a 360 look at what it takes to participate, organize and ultimately try and win what is unquestionably the toughest race in motorsport,” says Erskine.
In other news…
Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos has confirmed that the platform is in “preliminary talks” with the Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life creators about making another series. The four-part series, which premiered last year, had ended on a major cliffhanger. [Cosmopolitan]
ICYMI: Netflix has renewed its original multi-camera comedy series One Day At a Time for a second season. The platform’s modern 13-episode adaptation of Norman Lear’s classic series premiered January 6 and has received rave reviews. [Deadline]
A new report shows that more U.S. households (54% to be exact) now have Netflix than a DVR. The enlightening data from LRG reaffirms that cord-cutting is the future and could eventually replace traditional broadcast television entirely. [Variety]
Netflix has ordered an eight-episode period zombie thriller series titled Kingdom. Directed by Kim Seong-hun, the mastermind behind last year’s hit Korean movie Tunnel, the show will be the platform’s second original series based in South Korea. [Variety]
Michael is a music and television junkie keen on most things that are not a complete and total bore. You can follow him on Twitter — @Tweetskoor
