Prime Video Orders Australian Originals ‘Free Spirits: The Backpacker Poisonings,’ ‘Madness of Three’ and ‘The Test’ Season 4

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Prime Video has ordered three new Australian original titles, growing its local slate to 34 commissions since 2019.

The new titles include two true-crime docuseries and a fourth season of the sports documentary “The Test,” all launching from 2027.

“Free Spirits: The Backpacker Poisonings” (w/t) follows eight backpackers, including two Australians, who traveled through Southeast Asia in late 2024. A night out in Laos left six of them dead; two of the group survived, and one of them lost their sight as a result. Drawing on the travelers’ own phone footage, final voice messages and interviews with the surviving backpacker and the victims’ families, the three-part series pieces together what led to the tragedy and the effort to understand what happened afterward. Cineflix produces for Amazon MGM Studios.

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