Three new half-hour pilots The Climb, Love You
More, and Sea Oak will debut exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in
over 200 countries and territories for any Amazon customer to
watch
Shows feature notable creators and talent
including Bridget Everett, Diarra Kilpatrick, George Saunders,
Glenn Close, Hiro Murai, and Michael Patrick King
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced the lineup for its
forthcoming fall pilot season which will debut on November 10 in
over 200 countries and territories exclusively on Amazon Prime
Video for all customers to stream. The new pilots include
half-hours Love You More from creators Bridget Everett (Patti
Cake$), Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City, The Comeback, 2
Broke Girls), Bobcat Goldthwait (God Bless America) and Carolyn
Strauss (Treme); Sea Oak, based on a short story of the same name
from creator and award-winning author George Saunders (Lincoln In
The Bardo), starring Glenn Close (Damages, The Wife), directed by
Hiro Murai (Atlanta), and executive produced by Jonathan
Krauss and showrunner Evan Dunsky (Nurse Jackie); and The
Climb, created by a fresh, powerful new voice, Diarra Kilpatrick
(American Koko, The Last O.G.), directed by Chris
Robinson (The New Edition Story, Star) with showrunner
Christina Lee (Search Party, Wet Hot American Summer: First
Day of Camp).
Since Amazon Prime Video’s expansion to more than 200 countries
and territories around the globe last December, customers from all
over the globe can now stream the latest pilots. Amazon customer
feedback on pilots has helped make some of the most
critically-acclaimed and popular series to date, including multi
Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning series Transparent, multi Golden
Globe-winning series Mozart in the Jungle, and the most-streamed
scripted Amazon Original Series ever by Prime members globally, The
Man in the High Castle, winner of two Emmys. All pilots will be
available via the Amazon Prime Video app for compatible TVs,
connected devices and mobile devices, or online at
Amazon.com/amazonvideo.
“We’re excited about, and committed to, telling diverse and
risky stories from the best storytellers in the world,” said Joe
Lewis, Head of Comedy, Drama and VR, Amazon Studios. “We can’t wait
for customers to see these incredible new universes from Diarra,
Bridget, Michael and George.”
Amazon’s upcoming half-hour pilots include:
The Climb
From creator and star Diarra Kilpatrick (American
Koko, The Last O.G.) and The Mark Gordon Company comes a
comedy about the new American Dream set against the backdrop
of a rapidly changing Detroit. The Climb follows an
office assistant who seeks an extraordinary life through internet
fame, with her best friend always in tow. Chris
Robinson (The New Edition Story, Star) directed the
pilot, which shot on location in Detroit. Christina Lee
(Search Party, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp)
served as showrunner on the pilot episode. The Mark Gordon
Company (Designated Survivor, Ray Donovan) is
producing and serving as the studio on the project along with
Amazon Studios.
Love You More
Love You More stars New York City cabaret sensation Bridget
Everett (Patti Cake$) as Karen Best, with Bobcat Goldthwait (God
Bless America) directing and Michael Patrick King (Sex and the
City, The Comeback, 2 Broke Girls) showrunning. Karen Best is a big
girl with a big personality and a big love of Chardonnay, which
occasionally causes her to make some big mistakes with men. But the
biggest thing about Karen is her big heart, which she uses to excel
at her job as a counselor at an independent living residence for
young adults with Down syndrome. And sometimes, Karen’s need to
stand up for all the little people in life manifests into a fantasy
rock music number, where we discover she also has a big and
beautiful voice. Love You More is from MPK Productions in
association with Warner Bros. Television and Amazon Studios. King,
Goldthwait, Strauss and Everett co-wrote the pilot. King and
Goldthwait serve as executive producers, and Everett is
co-executive producer.
Sea Oak
Sea Oak is a genre-bending comedy from renowned author and
creator George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo), starring
Emmy-winner Glenn Close (Damages, The Wife), directed by
Golden Globe-winner Hiro Murai (Atlanta) and executive
produced by Jonathan Krauss through his Affiliated
Pictures banner. Murai will also serve as an executive producer as
well as Evan Dunsky (Nurse Jackie). Lael
Smith and Keir McFarlane serve as co-executive
producers. Aunt Bernie, a working-class woman in a Rust Belt city
(meek, unmarried, no kids), dies tragically in a home
invasion. Compelled by sheer force of dissatisfaction, she
comes back from the dead full of rage, determined to get the life
she never had. She proceeds to inflict a range of demands on what’s
left of her nuclear family (a quasi-stripper nephew and two
feckless nieces), who live in a low-end subsidized hellhole of a
housing complex called Sea Oak. Sea Oak is from Amazon
Studios.
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