--- description: A new licensing deal will bring HBO movies, comedy specials and series to Amazon's $99-per-year Prime subscription service, with the first shows due in May title: HBO Is Coming to Amazon Prime, Whether You Have HBO or Not image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37c92044897c824b/69868c0955a8592da8a80777/hbo-sopranos.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # HBO Is Coming to Amazon Prime by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 23, 2014 1:50 PM CUT  HBO by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 23, 2014 1:50 PM CUT Amazon and HBO are joining hands for an exclusive licensing deal that will bring HBO’s content to Amazon’s $99-per-year Prime subscription service, with the first shows hitting Prime on May 21. Assuming you’re a fan of the sort of content HBO offers, including some of the highest-acclaimed series in television history, that’s as big a deal as any in recent memory — the first time in history HBO’s paired off with an online-only subscription-based streamer. It means access to HBO will no longer be limited to cable or satellite provider packages, opening the door wide for the first time to cord-cutters who’ve doubtless been waiting for a deal like this to go down. It means you’ll be able to tap HBO with anything that currently supports Amazon’s Prime channel — set-tops, tablets, phones, game consoles, etc. — and gain access to whole swathes of HBO content (as well as free two-day shipping and Kindle library lending) for Amazon’s standard $99-per-year fee. Bear in mind, if you’re not a member, that Prime content is _free_ to Prime members; this isn’t HBO signing up to let Amazon charge you to watch these shows. Amazon says Prime members will have “unlimited streaming access” to shows that include: * All seasons of _The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome_ and _Six Feet Under,_ as well as _Eastbound & Down, Enlightened_ and _Flight of the Conchords_ * Miniseries, including _Angels in America, Band of Brothers, John Adams, The Pacific and Parade’s End_ * Select seasons of current series such as _Boardwalk Empire, Treme_ and _True Blood_ * Original movies like _Game Change, Too Big To Fail_ and _You Don’t Know Jack_ * Documentaries including the _Autopsy_ and _Iceman_ series, _Ghosts of Abu Ghraib_ and _When the Levees Broke_ * Original comedy specials from Lewis Black, Ellen DeGeneres, Louis CK and Bill Maher Amazon says earlier seasons of HBO shows like _Girls, The Newsroom_ and _Veep_ will roll out “over the course of the multi-year agreement, approximately three years after airing on HBO.” Not to worry, cable subscribers and HBO Go users: Amazon assures HBO content will remain “on all HBO platforms.” HBO hasn’t signed any of its series over to Amazon exclusively, in other words; only the right to stream existing shows through Prime. What’s more, Amazon says the HBO Go app is coming to [Amazon’s Fire TV set-top box](http://time.com/tag/fire-tv "undefined") by the end of the year, the upside being access to the full HBO caboodle if you pay monthly for HBO: “1,700 titles online including every episode of new and classic HBO series, as well as HBO original films, miniseries, sports, documentaries, specials and a wide selection of blockbuster movies.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/73525/hbo-is-coming-to-amazon-prime-whether-you-have-hbo-or-not/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/73525/hbo-is-coming-to-amazon-prime-whether-you-have-hbo-or-not/"},"headline":"HBO Is Coming to Amazon Prime","datePublished":"2014-04-23T13:50:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:03.355Z","description":"A new licensing deal will bring HBO movies, comedy specials and series to Amazon's $99-per-year Prime subscription service, with the first shows due in May","url":"https://time.com/73525/hbo-is-coming-to-amazon-prime-whether-you-have-hbo-or-not/","keywords":["Tech","Amazon","HBO","hbo go","Amazon Prime","streaming video"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37c92044897c824b/69868c0955a8592da8a80777/hbo-sopranos.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37c92044897c824b/69868c0955a8592da8a80777/hbo-sopranos.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"hbo-sopranos","caption":"","creditText":"HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/73525/hbo-is-coming-to-amazon-prime-whether-you-have-hbo-or-not/","name":"HBO Is Coming to Amazon Prime"}}]}] ```