Amazon Announces Content Licensing Deal For New CBS Television Series Extant

(RTTNews) - Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and CBS Corp. (CBS, CBS_A) announced a content licensing agreement for the new CBS Television series Extant.

The company said that the serialized drama, starring Halle Berry and produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, will premiere on the CBS Television Network in June. Amazon Prime Instant Video will be the exclusive premium subscription home for Extant with unlimited streaming of all the series' episodes available to their members four days after their initial broadcast on CBS.

Amazon noted that its Prime members will be able to enjoy the episodes on hundreds of compatible Amazon Instant Video devices including Kindle Fire HDX, Kindle Fire HD, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Roku, Xbox, PlayStation and the Wii. Episodes of Extant will also be available for purchase and download exclusively at Amazon Instant Video.

Amazon stated that the agreement follows CBS and Amazon's subscription video-on-demand model for last summer's number one series Under the Dome, which averaged 15.06 million viewers and was the most watched scripted summer series in 21 years.

Extant is a co-production of CBS Television Studios and Amblin Television. Steven Spielberg, Greg Walker, Mickey Fisher, who wrote the script, Brooklyn Weaver, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank will serve as executive producers. Halle Berry will serve as co-executive producer. The series will be distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution and worldwide by CBS Studios International.