{"id":16386,"date":"2025-07-23T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16386\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:37:07","slug":"amazon-and-australian-football-league-launch-behind-the-scenes-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16386\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon and Australian Football League launch behind-the-scenes series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Amazon and the Australian Football League today officially unveiled plans for a new docuseries centering on the league, \u201cpulling back the curtain on Aussie Rules\u201d for audiences, according to Peter Rolfe of the Melbourne HERALD SUN. Camera crews will begin \u201cfilming behind the scenes footage and audio of teams and star players\u201d from this weekend for a series the league and Amazon \u201chope introduces AFL to new international audiences.\u201d The series &#8212; yet to be named &#8212; will \u201cpremiere on Prime Video in 240 countries and territories worldwide in 2026.\u201d It will be produced by Emmy Award-winning U.K. sports production company Box to Box which \u201cbreathed new life into\u201d F1 through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/18\/drive-to-survive-audience-slowing-on-netflix-while-wwe-raw-looks-to-be-settling-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/18\/drive-to-survive-audience-slowing-on-netflix-while-wwe-raw-looks-to-be-settling-in\/\">Netflix\u2019s \u201cDrive to Survive\u201d series<\/a> and has \u201ccreated content for golf, tennis and the Tour de France\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/filming-to-begin-on-new-amazon-afl-documentary-series-based-on-drive-to-survive\/news-story\/52e1531d6ba3bf8a8c12855d6e239f85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/filming-to-begin-on-new-amazon-afl-documentary-series-based-on-drive-to-survive\/news-story\/52e1531d6ba3bf8a8c12855d6e239f85\">Melbourne HERALD SUN, 7\/23<\/a>). The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER\u2019s Abid Rahman writes the new AFL docuseries \u201cwill follow the winning Box to Box formula of going behind the scenes, offering viewers unprecedented levels of access and capturing some of the seldom-seen drama.\u201d The series \u201cwill build upon\u201d Amazon\u2019s existing AFL content, which includes three Amazon Original docuseries (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/amazon-prime-video-aussie-rules-docuseries-drive-to-survive-1236326698\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/amazon-prime-video-aussie-rules-docuseries-drive-to-survive-1236326698\/\">HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 7\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon and the Australian Football League today officially unveiled plans for a new docuseries centering on the league,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,134,85],"class_list":["post-16386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-entertainment","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}