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Amazon and PBS have announced today that they’ve expanded the terms of their licensing agreement. That means that Amazon will not only continue to be the exclusive streaming home of Masterpiece favorites like Downton Abbey and Mr. Selfridge, but that it has also nabbed the rights to stream all of Masterpiece‘s latest titles — like Poldark, Wolf Hall, and Grantchester — after they’ve completed their premiere run on local PBS affiliates (and on the PBS app). Going forward, everything you watch on Masterpiece will eventually wind up on Amazon Prime and not on Netflix or Hulu.
Downton Abbey has long been one of the most popular titles in Amazon’s streaming library and this new deal suggests that Amazon wants to assert itself as PBS’s primary streaming partner. In addition to these Masterpiece titles, Amazon Prime subscribers also have access to NOVA, various Ken Burns documentaries, and an array of popular PBS children’s programming.
That said, Amazon doesn’t have the streaming rights to all of PBS’s Masterpiece empire. There’s one very big, very popular show that Netflix has the exclusive rights to: Sherlock.
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