Your favorite Audible podcast could be Prime Video’s next hit TV show
Podcasts, but with moving pictures
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Some of our most loved TV shows and movies began life without any pictures.The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The GalaxyandThe War of the Worldswere famously radio hits first, and more recently hit podcasts have been turned into TV shows such as the true crime showDr Deathand the corporate crime showThe Dropout.
You can expect a lot more of such shows onPrime VideobecauseAmazonMGM Studios will be adapting podcasts and audiobooks from Audible, which Amazon also owns, for streaming on Amazon’s video service. The shows may also be licensed to rivalbest streaming servicesand TV networks.
The news comes viaVariety, which says that the deal between Amazon MGM Studios and Audible focuses on “developing series from podcasts and other Audible-produced originals that have been successful with listeners in the US and elsewhere”.
It’s a low-risk strategy because of course hit podcasts already have a ready-made audience that’s likely to check out the visual version too, and you just know the word “synergy” is being bandied about at Amazon HQ. But cheap gags aside it does mean we’ll see some interesting shows, such as the Michael Connelly adaptationThe Wonderland Murders & The Secret History of HollywoodthatMGM Plusannounced late last year.
What podcasts can we expect to see on Prime Video?
As Variety explains, Audible “will co-develop and co-produce the projects with Amazon MGM Studios. The titles will be shopped to sibling outlets Amazon Prime Video and MGM Plus as well as external buyers”.
The newly announced podcasts and audiobooks currently being adapted for TV includeThe Prophecy(trailer below), a supernatural thriller set amid a host of unexplainable natural disasters;Hot White Heist, a comedy series featuring “a crew of misfits from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum as they attempt the stickiest heist in history”;Nut Jobs, a terribly named tale of crime syndicates, stolen identities and food-related shenanigans; andOracle, in which a psychic works for the FBI to help solve murders and abductions.
That’s not all. There’s alsoTemporal, in which a team of time travelers try to work out why the entire human race disappeared;Daniel X: Genesis, an adaptation of James Patterson’sDaniel Xseries; and two music-themed shows:Words + Music, which promises to be “shining a light on today’s most significant artists; andBreakthrough, a singing competition executive produced by The Chainsmokers.
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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.
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