The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Woody Allen had a four-picture deal with Amazon Studios. But after releasing two movies through Amazon (Cafe Society, Wonder Wheel) and a TV series that got panned, combined with renewed allegations against Allen by his children, Allen has found himself not only on the outs with Amazon, but also with …
If you’re reading this, you’re already too late to submit your script or concept idea to Amazon Studios. Amazon decided to put a stop to its open submission process as of Friday. You used to be able to send scripts and pitches to Amazon Studios for potential development into feature-length …
Woody Allen shared the Broadway stage with Elaine May — although not onstage together, technically — as writers in 2011 for “Relatively Speaking,” a collection of one-act plays. Allen did cast the legendary May back in 2000 for his movie, Small Time Crooks. And he’s turning back the clock once …
Christmas came early to the latest batch of pilot contenders for Amazon Studios, as the retail giant that’s now an award-winning competitor to the other streaming, cable and broadcast TV networks has ordered three new comedies, including Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi, and also renewed rookie 1980s throwback comedy Red Oaks. …
Someone told Woody Allen that all of these bad headlines surrounding Bill Cosby meant it was a good time to come back out into the spotlight? Amazon Studios today announced a deal with Allen for a full season of Untitled Woody Allen Project, a half-hour series and Allen’s first, which he’ll write …
If you feel like Amazon Studios snubbed The Grawlix by not picking up their sitcom pilot to series, then feel good about today, because today, truTV kept hope alive. TruTV has ordered a reshoot of the pilot for Those Who Can’t, the sitcom Denver-based comedians Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl and Ben …
It makes for a cute story that Amazon Studios chose to greenlight Alpha House and Betas as its first two streaming TV series. Cute, but ultimately irrelevant. That’s the perception of Amazon’s TV department, because really, when do you ever hear anyone talking up an Amazon series? Netflix has the …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
Alpha House, one of Amazon Studio’s first TV series, has proven successful enough that creator Garry Trudeau has had to shelve the previous creation he’s still better known for: His comic strip, Doonesbury. Alpha House stars John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson and Matt Malloy as four U.S. Senators sharing …
If you say it’s all Greek to you when it comes to figuring out how Amazon.com’s Amazon Studios would make sense of its first wave of sitcom pilots, then, well, congratulations. Your Amazon Studios Fantasy League picks of Alpha House and Betas made it through to series! Amazon had cultivated …
