Amazon.com Inc. recently hired its first head of original television for Europe and is developing local shows in France and Spain. Both shows are expected to be released next year on their country’s streaming services — HBO Spain and HBO Nordic. For instance, Wasteland, an HBO series from the Czech Republic about a town whose buildings are razed by a coal company, averages about 100,000 American viewers. While that’s a far cry from the season finale of “Game of Thrones,” which drew 16.5 million viewers, HBO said its foreign shows are aimed at niche audiences in the U.S.For now, only a few European HBO shows are available to its American viewers. The winner, Marjan Alcevski, was awarded a six-episode HBO series based on his idea about four strangers who are bound together after witnessing a violent act.

Source: thestar May 11, 2018 19:52 UTC