{"id":10887,"date":"2016-10-03T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/amazon-lines-up-live-action-american-girl-special\/"},"modified":"2016-10-03T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:51:20","slug":"amazon-preps-premiere-of-american-girl-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/amazon-preps-premiere-of-american-girl-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Preps Premiere of American Girl Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE: Amazon is due to debut<em> An American Girl Story\u2014Melody 1963: Love Has to Win<\/em>, the first of four original live-action American Girl specials for Prime Video, later this month.<\/p>\n<p><em>An American Girl Story\u2014Melody 1963: Love Has to Win<\/em>\u00a0centers on a 10-year-old girl who becomes aware of the racial inequality around her and decides to stand up for what she believes in. It stars Marsai Martin (<em>Black-ish<\/em>) alongside Frances Fisher (<em>Titanic<\/em>), Frankie Faison (<em>The Wire<\/em>) and Idara Victor (<em>TURN: Washington\u2019s Spies<\/em>). The first Amazon original special for Prime Video will become available on October 21 in the U.S. and U.K.<\/p>\n<p><em>An American Girl Story\u2014Melody 1963: Love Has to Win<\/em> is executive produced by Alison McDonald (<em>Roots<\/em>), Common\u2019s Freedom Road Productions, and Christopher Keenan and Melinda McCrocklin for American Girl. It is directed and produced by Tina Mabry (<em>Mississippi Damned<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American Girl Melody special is an empowering and inspiring story that will quickly become a favorite for young girls, while bringing families together to help start a healthy dialogue,\u201d said Tara Sorensen, the head of kids&#8217; programming at Amazon Studios. \u201cAlthough our special is historical, the themes presented are sadly very timely and relevant for the world to\u00a0which kids today are exposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon and American Girl have also teamed up to create a destination for a variety of Melody products, available at www.amazon.com\/americangirl. \u201cWe are always looking for new ways to bring our great content to life both on and off the screen,\u201d added Eva Lorenz, Amazon&#8217;s category leader for toys. \u201cFrom toys to books to crafts, Melody\u2019s biggest fans can now discover and shop a wide selection of items available with free two-day shipping for Prime members.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE: Amazon is due to debut An American Girl Story\u2014Melody 1963: Love Has to Win, the first of four original live-action American Girl specials for Prime Video, later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":10888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1343,345,1855],"class_list":["post-10887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-amazon","tag-american-girl","tag-an-american-girl-story-melody-1963-love-has-to-win","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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