Episode one will be available free of charge on
Playboy.com on April 7 through April 13, and for all Amazon
customers beginning April 7
Produced by the Emmy Award-winning Stephen
David Entertainment and Alta Loma Entertainment, the Amazon
Original Series draws from unprecedented access to Hefner’s archive
of thousands of hours of footage and his Guinness World
Record-holding collection of over 2,900 scrapbooks
(NASDAQ:AMZN)—The Amazon Original Series American Playboy: The
Hugh Hefner Story will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in more than
200 countries and territories on Friday, April 7. The series tells
the story of Playboy magazine’s charismatic founder, Hugh Hefner,
who set out to disrupt the status quo and created one of the most
recognizable brands in history. The docuseries combines archival
footage, pulling from thousands of hours from Hefner’s personal
archives; interviews with notable figures including Jesse Jackson,
Gene Simmons and Bill Maher; and cinematic reenactments.
Episode one of American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story will be
available free of charge on Playboy.com at
playboy.com/americanplayboy on April 7 through April 13. The
episode will also be made available for all Amazon customers on
amazon.com/americanplayboy starting April 7.
Produced by the Emmy Award-winning Stephen David Entertainment
and Alta Loma Entertainment, American Playboy begins in post-war
America and takes us through the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953
and the next six decades of Hefner’s life and career. As he built
his empire, Hefner became both a social justice advocate and a
target of the conservative movement while becoming an outspoken
defender of civil rights, freedom of speech, gay rights and, of
course, sexual freedom. The series is the result of unprecedented
access to thousands of hours of never-before-seen footage from both
Hefner’s and the Playboy archives and Hefner’s personal scrapbooks,
which number more than 2,900 and constitute a Guinness World
Record. The 90-year-old Hefner has been deeply involved in the
development and production of American Playboy, imbuing the series
with rich first-person accounts and never-before-told stories.
Prime members will be able to stream all 10 episodes of the
docuseries via the Amazon Prime Video app for TVs, connected
devices including Fire TV, mobile devices and online at
amazon.com/americanplayboy. Members can also download the series to
mobile devices for offline viewing at no additional cost to their
membership. American Playboy will be a global release and available
on Amazon Prime Video for members to watch via the Prime Video app
or online at PrimeVideo.com in more than 200 countries and
territories.
“At a time when civil rights are more in the news than ever,
Prime members will be delighted to learn more about the Playboy
brand and its contributions in that area,” said Conrad Riggs, Head
of Unscripted, Amazon Originals. “This series will offer the
unprecedented, behind-the-scenes story of Hefner’s life and his
fight to protect and advance essential American rights, including
free speech.”
American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story is produced by the Emmy
award-winning Stephen David Entertainment, a Banijay Group company,
and Playboy Enterprises’ production company Alta Loma
Entertainment, and executive produced by Stephen David (The Men Who
Built America, The World Wars, The Making of the Mob, The American
West), Peter Jaysen (You Me Her, Fired Up, Dateline NBC) and
longtime Playboy executive Dick Rosenzweig (The House Bunny, The
Playboy Club) with co-executive producers Shirley Escott (Shadow of
Doubt, The Making of the Mob: New York) and Tim Kelly (NASCAR: The
Rise of American Speed, American Genius).
Customers who are not already Prime members can sign up for a
free trial at www.amazon.com/prime. For a list of all Amazon Video
compatible devices, visit www.amazon.com/howtostream.
About Amazon Video
Amazon Video is a premium on-demand entertainment service that
offers customers the greatest choice in what to watch, and how to
watch it. Amazon Video is the only service that provides all of the
following:
- Prime Video: Thousands of movies
and TV shows, including popular licensed content plus
critically-acclaimed and award-winning Amazon Original Series and
Movies from Amazon Studios like Transparent, The Man in the High
Castle, Love & Friendship and kids series Tumble Leaf,
available for unlimited streaming as part of an Amazon Prime
membership. Prime Video is also now available to customers in more
than 200 countries and territories around the globe at
www.primevideo.com.
- Amazon Channels: Over 100
channel subscriptions that Prime members can add to their
membership, including HBO, SHOWTIME, STARZ, Cinemax, PBS KIDS,
Acorn TV and more, plus Anime Strike – the first curated on-demand
subscription by Amazon Channels. To view the full list of channels
available, visit www.amazon.com/channels
- Rent or Own: Hundreds of
thousands of titles, including new-release movies and current TV
shows available for on-demand rental or purchase for all Amazon
customers
- Instant Access: Instantly watch
anytime, anywhere through the Amazon Video app on TVs, mobile
devices, Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, and Fire tablets, or
online. For a list of all compatible devices visit
www.amazon.com/howtostream
- Premium Features: Top features
like 4K Ultra HD, High Dynamic Range (HDR) and mobile downloads for
offline viewing of select content
In addition to Prime Video, the Prime membership includes
unlimited fast free shipping options across all categories
available on Amazon, more than two million songs and thousands of
playlists and stations with Prime Music, secure photo storage with
Prime Photos, unlimited reading with Prime Reading, unlimited
access to a digital audiobook catalogue with Audible Channels for
Prime, a rotating selection of free digital games and in-game loot
with Twitch Prime, early access to select Lightning Deals,
exclusive access and discounts to select items, and more. To
sign-up for Prime or to find out more visit:
www.amazon.com/prime.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about.
About Stephen David Entertainment
Stephen David Entertainment (SDE) – a Banijay Group Company – is
an Emmy® Award-winning, New York-based production company. SDE
counts The Men Who Built America, The World Wars and The Making of
the Mob: New York among its popular, hybrid documentary series. In
the six years since its inception, SDE has developed numerous
docudrama mini-series and select scripted projects, utilizing
high-end production techniques and cutting-edge VFX. In 2014 and
2015, SDE was named to Realscreen’s Global 100 list of top
production companies. SDE’s upcoming productions include American
Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story and Frontiersmen.
About Alta Loma Entertainment
Alta Loma Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Playboy
Enterprises, Inc., a media and lifestyle company that markets the
brand through a wide range of media properties and licensing
initiatives. The company developed the successful series You Me
Her, which has been picked up for three seasons by DirecTV’s
Audience channel. Other credits include E!’s The Girls Next Door,
NBC’s The Playboy Club, Columbia Picture’s The House Bunny, and the
documentaries Why Be Good: Sexuality & Censorship in Early
Cinema and Gangland: Bullets Over Hollywood. Playboy is one of the
most recognized and popular consumer brands in the world. The
company publishes Playboy magazine in the United States and
licenses foreign editions of Playboy around the world; operates
Playboy.com, a leading men’s lifestyle and entertainment site; and
creates content for distribution via feature films, television
networks, websites, mobile platforms and radio. Through licensing
agreements, the Playboy brand appears on a wide range of consumer
products in more than 180 countries, as well as retail stores and
entertainment venues. For more information about Playboy
Enterprises, please visit www.PlayboyEnterprises.com.
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