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How to choose the streaming services that are right for you

7:26pm January 31, 2024

by Eric Deggans

Costs have gone way up and there are so many options — but we are here to help. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans suggests some streaming strategy best practices and looks carefully at the major providers.

Dark Little Whispers leans on Hashem's dark humor and dry sarcasm to land its strongest punchlines.

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Arab American comic Dina Hashem has a debut special — but the timing is 'tricky'

6:06pm November 10, 2023

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Hashem, who writes for The Daily Show, has a standup special called Dark Little Whispers debuting on Amazon Prime Video. It coincides with a heartbreaking political and humanitarian crisis.

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Amazon Prime Video will start running commercials starting in early 2024

11:52am September 22, 2023

by Juliana Kim

Amazon Prime Video is the latest streaming service to embrace ads in what it says is an effort to continue investing in content. Ad-free service will cost an extra $3 per month.

Left: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs passes during a 2017 game. Right: Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert looks to pass in a game last year.

Ready, set, stream — a new NFL era begins Thursday

10:25am September 15, 2022

by Tom Goldman

Amazon's Prime Video is now the exclusive provider of Thursday NFL broadcasts. The streaming giant acquired an all-digital rights package and is paying a reported $1.2 billion per year.

Gracie Emory (Melody Hurd) and Lucky Emory (Deborah Ayorinde) confront their traumas in Them.

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'Them': The Trauma, The Trauma

9:38am April 08, 2021

by Aisha Harris

Amazon's new anthology series, executive produced by Lena Waithe, unrelentingly explores "terror in America."

Hannah Storm (shown here) and Andrea Kremer are Amazon Prime Video's sportscasting team and are set to call 11 NFL games this season.

Hannah Storm, Part Of First All-Women NFL Broadcast Team, Is Set For Kickoff

9:24am September 27, 2018

by Cameron Jenkins

On Thursday, Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer will become the first all-women broadcast team to call an NFL game. To critics of the pair, she says it's "myopic" to think that football is only for men.

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