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Amazon Orders Tig Notaro’s “One Mississippi”, “Highston” with Chris Parnell and Mary Lynn Rajskub, and “Z: The Beginning of Everything” to Series and Renews “Red Oaks”

December 18, 2015

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(via Deadline)

Just like Netflix has upped their content orders for next years, Amazon is smartly following suit.

Today, Amazon boosted up their upcoming comedy offering by not only renewing their 80s coming-of-age comedy, Red Oaks, from David Gordon Green, but ordered three of their comedy pilots to series.

One, Highston, has Chris Parnell and Marry Lynn Rajskub as parents to a kid played by Lewis Pullman who has celebrity friends that only he can see. The second one, One Mississippi is the high profile dramedy series based on the life of Tig Notaro with involvement from Louis C.K. and Diablo Cody. The third and final series ordered today was, Z: The Beginning of Everything, a comedy based on the whirlwind-turned-tornado of a romance between Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and legendary author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Christina Ricci is set to lead and the series is written by Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin, both from The Killing, and directed by Tim Blake Nelson that you probably saw years ago in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

All in all, this new batch of comedy series that Amazon has will be very intriguing to see in how it stacks up to releases from Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services.

Season 1 of “Red Oaks” Now on Amazon

October 10, 2015

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Travel back once again to the 80s for Amazon’s comedy series, Red Oaks, though, this time set at a country club with a specific focus on teaching rich people how to play tennis.

The whole first season is now available at Amazon. If you don’t have Amazon Prime and want to preview what you might get into, the pilot is on YouTube here.

Watch Trailer For Amazon’s 80s Coming of Age Comedy “Red Oaks”

September 14, 2015

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Amazon’s latest comedy series will be Red Oaks from director David Gordon Green (Eastbound and Down) and writers Joe Gangemi and Gregory Jacobs following a young man played by Craig Roberts teaching tennis to old, rich folks at a country club, set in the 1980s.

From the looks of the trailer, especially with how Josh Meyers and Paul Reiser look, it’s really steeped in the 1980s.

All the episodes start streaming exclusively on Amazon on Fri. Oct. 9th.

Amazon Orders ‘Red Oaks’ to Series, More Scripts for ‘The Cosmopolitans’

October 4, 2014

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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

After their latest user rated pilot season, Amazon has opted to take the Steven Soderbergh/David Gordon Green comedy pilot Red Oaks to series. This marks a streak for Soderbergh who has been gaining critical momentum for the Cinemax series he directs, The Knick.

Also, Whit Stillman’s The Cosmopolitans has received an order for an additional scripts, but whether they will go to series too has yet to be determined.

It’s clear that Amazon has built up plenty of its own momentum with Jill Soloway‘s Transparent and we’ll see if they can keep that going when Red Oaks and possibly The Cosmopolitans release their first season some time next year.

Amazon’s Next Set of Comedy Pilots (Red Oaks, The Cosmopolitans, Really) Are Now Available to Watch and Review

August 28, 2014

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Amazon has their brand new wave of pilots just uploaded today. 3 of them are comedy pilots that are free to watch and then up for your review, which supposedly factors in to which one goes to series or not.

Whit Stillman’s The Cosmopolitans, Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green’s Red Oaks, and Jay Chandrasekhar’s Really all have a chance to go to series perhaps pending your approval, so go watch them as soon as you can.

Amazon to Spend Over $100 Million in Q3 on Original Series

July 25, 2014

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(via Variety)

With the success of series exclusively released through online streaming giants like Netflix, Amazon is upping their bet on producing original content.

This next quarter, they’re setting to spend over $100 million on producing their original series, though we’re not sure how that’s divvied up between their new pilots and returning series. Hopefully, such a bank roll for Amazon Studios will bring more enticing original comedy series like the enticing Stephen Soderbergh and David Gordon Green pilot Red Oaks.

Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green Comedy Pilot “Red Oaks” Coming to Amazon

July 7, 2014

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Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green Comedy Pilot “Red Oaks” Coming to Amazon

Amazon Studios have added their latest comedy pilot to their upcoming slate of shows that will be put on display for viewers to watch and decide which goes to series.

That comedy pilot is a coming of age comedy from producer Steven Soderbergh and director David Gordon Green entitled Red Oaks set in 1985. Soderbergh and Green collaborating on a comedy series at Amazon has us thoroughly intrigued.