Prime Video Is Officially Replacing 'Maxton Hall' With New Boarding School Romance Series

Published Aug 19, 2026, 11:45 AM EDT

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Amazon has found plenty of success with novel adaptations on Prime Video. One of 2026’s most defining movies is also one of Prime Video’s biggest hits of the year, with the sci-fi masterpiece Project Hail Mary, based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir, earning 5.5 million views in its first three days in the U.S. In 2024, the record for the most successful international original series ever on Prime Video was broken by Maxton Hall — The World Between Us, an adaptation of Mona Kasten’s 2018 novel *Save Me. *

In Maxton Hall, after meeting the first person to be unimpressed by his wealth and status, millionaire heir James Beaufort (Damian Hardung) falls in love with prodigious Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten) after she earns a scholarship to the titular English boarding school. The season smashed all expectations in its opening season, earning a renewal that aired in November 2025, which achieved the best multi-day performance for a returning show on Prime Video since Season 3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty**.

Ahead of a third season of Maxton Hall, which is scheduled to premiere this December, Deadline has revealed that Amazon MGM Studios has purchased the rights to a perfect replacement series, based on Anna Todd’s forthcoming romance novel series, House of Crowns. Although the novel isn’t yet dated for publication, the studio is backing a writer they have already developed a project for, after previously purchasing the rights to Todd’s The Last Sunrise, which premieres on Prime Video later this month. **Elinor Cook **(Boys of Tommen) is reported to be adapting. The series “is set at an elite boarding school in Switzerland where royalty and world leaders send their children. When a poor outsider there on scholarship and a gilded heiress with dangerous secrets fall into a forbidden love, it could shatter them both.”

Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.

You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.

You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.

You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.

You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.

You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.

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