Search icon

Movies & TV

05th Nov 2013

Amazon to start making their own TV shows

It looks like Amazon is taking a page out of Netflix's book and have started making their own TV shows

JOE

It looks like Amazon is taking a page out of Netflix’s book and have started making their own TV shows

We’re used to going to Amazon to buy anything from text books to DVD box sets, but it seems that they’ve decided to branch out into making their own TV shows.

Obviously, the company is not short of cash, and they will splash some of it on two original series, one comedy called Alpha House and another called Betas, which will focus on the lives of a group of workers in a social media startup.

Gary Trudeau, the man behind the comic strip Doonesbury, is the scriptwriter for Alpha House, which sees John Goodman sharing a house with three other politicians, and will also star Amy Sedaris and Wanda Sykes.

The first three episodes of the shows will be available free to Amazon customers in the US, and the rest will then be available on Amazon Prime for those who subscribe to that service. The shows premiere on November 22nd, and each will have 11 episodes. No word yet on whether these shows will be available through other mediums for viewers over here, so we’ll have to wait and see on that front.

That’s not all they’re planning on though, as they’ve got a few children’s shows in production as well as some drama series, which have been chosen by a panel of viewers from a selection of pilots.

Hat-tip to the lads at Mashable for this

LISTEN: You Must Be Jokin’ with Conor Sketches | Tiger Woods loves Ger Loughnane and cosplaying as Charles LeClerc