Amazon seems to be transferring ahead with extra seasons of Beast Video games.
Deadline understands that the streamer is casting for Season 2 and, although there hasn’t been an official renewal announcement, we hear there’s speak of a two-season order. Head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios Mike Hopkins appeared to verify that Wednesday throughout a panel on the Milken Institute World Convention in Los Angeles.
“We’re going to do a pair extra seasons of that, I feel, quickly,” he mentioned of the collection whereas describing the success the corporate has had to this point dipping its toes into the creator financial system.
MrBeast, in any other case often known as Jimmy Donaldson, gave away $25 million in prize cash on his Prime Video competitors collection, which debuted in December. He appeared keen at hand out much more money throughout a current dialog for Deadline’s Contenders TV, teasing that “one other 10 seasons might occur.”
Nevertheless, on the time, he remained coy concerning the present’s prospects, including: “[Sean] Klitzner is form of my boss on this regard, and he advised me I wasn’t allowed to talk about that topic throughout this interview.”
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Fellow panelist Klitzner, one of many present’s co-creators and government producers, additionally swerved the query however added there’s an “limitless quantity of excellent concepts.”
“If there’s a good suggestion in entrance of us, and there’s a YouTube video that wants it, we’re going to movie it for the YouTube video,” he mentioned. “One other good thought is true across the nook.”
In January, Beast Video games set an viewers report on Prime Video, turning into the streamer’s most-watched unscripted collection ever in its first 25 days. Per the streamer, the collection has racked up 50M viewers globally in that time-frame, additionally making it the second most-watched and second most acquisitive new collection of 2024, behind solely Fallout.
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Based mostly on his already profitable YouTube present, Beast Video games is touted “to develop into the most important actuality competitors collection ever with 1000 contestants competing for a $5 million greenback money prize” — the most important payout in TV historical past. MrBeast serves as host and government producer.
In November 2022, MrBeast grew to become essentially the most subscribed YouTube creator worldwide and now has over 244 million subscribers. His social media profession started when he first posted on the platform at 13, although he rose to fame in 2017 when a video of MrBeast counting to 100,000 went viral.
Peter White contributed to this report.
