New York Post

Bezos’ live project is dead

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JEFF Bezos’ first foray into live TV is over. Page Six has learned that Amazon’s trailblazi­ng “Style Code Live” has been canceled after 15 months on air.

“They called everyone into a staff meeting on Friday and told them they don’t have jobs anymore,” said a source close to production. “There’s no more shows, but everyone can stay on until July with pay to help cancel current bookings and wind things down.”

We’re told the end of the project came “rather abruptly” and was a shock to the staff.

Since its premiere in March 2016, the live, Monday-through-Friday show — co-hosted by former “Good Morning America” correspon- dent Rachel Smith, MTV’s “Total Request Live” alum Lyndsey Rodrigues and Ariana Grande’s brother Frankie Grande — has featured guests including Sarah Jessica Parker, Kourtney Kardashian, Kelly Osbourne and Ariel Winter.

But on Friday, the 30-minute show deleted its social-media accounts and broke the news to staff.

The show was an experiment in reinventin­g the QVC formula for the online generation: Viewers got beauty tips and fashion advice and could buy the featured items directly from Amazon.com.

The show’s collapse comes as Bezos’s boom- ing company finds its feet in the programmin­g world with hit shows like “Transparen­t” and “The Grand Tour” — as well as flops like “Good Girls Revolt” and, now, “Style Code Live,” and as online platforms such as Instagram and Twitter battle to bring live TV to smartphone­s.

In November 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon is “exploring an ambitious push to infiltrate the last bastion of traditiona­l pay-television: live sports.” Meanwhile, Bezos’ fellow mogul, former DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, recently announced WndrCo, a company dedicated to making shows for smartphone­s.

Reps for Amazon didn’t get back to us.

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