Award-winning show creator Jill Soloway signs
overall deal with Amazon Studios where she will exclusively develop
television projects; Soloway will continue as Showrunner on
Transparent and Andrea Sperling has been elevated to Executive
Producer on the series
Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development), Judith
Light (Dallas), Gaby Hoffmann (Girls), Amy Landecker (Louie) and
Jay Duplass (Togetherness) will all return for another season
Prime members can watch season one of
Transparent now using the Amazon Instant Video app for TVs,
connected devices and mobile devices, or online
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced it has greenlit a third
season of the Golden Globe Award-winning series Transparent, which
will become available exclusively to members of Amazon Prime in
2016. Returning cast includes Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development)
as Maura Pfefferman, Judith Light (Dallas) as Shelly Pfefferman,
Gaby Hoffmann (Girls) as Ali Pfefferman, Amy Landecker (Louie) as
Sarah Pfefferman and Jay Duplass (Togetherness) as Josh Pfefferman.
In addition, series creator Jill Soloway has signed an overall deal
with Amazon Studios where she will exclusively develop television
projects for Amazon Prime. Soloway will continue in her role as
Showrunner on Transparent and Andrea Sperling, who previously was
Co-Executive Producer on the series, has been elevated to Executive
Producer.
“Jill is truly a creative force and I’m thrilled that we will be
collaborating with her additional projects in the future and on a
third season of Transparent,” said Roy Price, Vice President,
Amazon Studios. “The second season is currently starting
production, and I know our customers will be delighted to continue
the journey with Maura and the Pfefferman family.”
"I am so thrilled that I get to share more of the Pfeffermans'
story with the world,” said Soloway. “We are all so in love with
watching them change and grow. I am blown away by the creative
freedom Amazon gives me and I can't wait to reveal where this
journey is going to take us."
Written, directed and executive produced by multi-award winner
Soloway, Transparent is a half hour novelistic series that explores
family, identity, sex, and love. The series stars Tambor as Maura,
who has spent her life as Mort—the Pfefferman family patriarch.
When she reintroduces herself to her family, everyone else’s
secrets finally start to come out. This includes her ex-wife Shelly
(played by Light), and their children—meandering Ali (played by
Hoffmann), record producer Josh (played by Duplass), and sexually
conflicted Sarah (played by Landecker). Each family member spins in
a different direction as they figure out who they won’t become.
Amazon Prime members can watch Season One of Transparent using
the Amazon Instant Video app for TVs, connected and mobile devices
or online at http://www.amazon.com/transparent. Amazon will
premiere the highly anticipated second season of Transparent this
fall exclusively for Prime members on Amazon Instant Video in the
US, UK and Germany. The series will begin production next week in
Los Angeles. Additional details, including guest stars, will be
announced in the coming months.
Customers can watch shows and movies with the Amazon Instant
Video app. The Amazon Instant Video app is available on hundreds of
devices including connected TVs, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Xbox
and PlayStation, as well as on mobile devices like Fire phone, Fire
tablets, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Customers can also
watch online at Amazon.com/PIV.
About Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios has premiered a number of critically-acclaimed
series that include Bosch, based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling
books, Mozart in the Jungle, from Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman,
and Paul Weitz, and Jill Soloway’s multi-Golden Globe Award-winning
dark comedy Transparent. The studio has also launched its first
live-action series for kids 6-11, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal
Street and three additional children’s series, the Annecy, Annie
and multi-Emmy Award-winning Tumble Leaf from Bix Pix
Entertainment; Creative Galaxy from Angela C. Santomero and Out of
the Blue Enterprises, the creators of Blue’s Clues; and Annedroids,
from Emmy nominated Sinking Ship Entertainment.
Amazon Studios has also announced eight additional, original
series will premiere in 2015 and early 2016 exclusively for Prime
members including Hand of God, Mad Dogs, The Man in the High
Castle, docu-series The New Yorker Presents, Red Oaks, a second
season of Transparent, as well as kids series Wishenpoof!, Just Add
Magic, and The Stinky & Dirty Show.
In 2015 Amazon Studios will begin to produce and acquire
original movies for theatrical release, followed by early window
distribution exclusively for Prime members.
Amazon Studios launched in 2010 as a new way to develop feature
films and episodic series—one that’s open to great ideas from
creators and audiences around the world. Anyone can upload a script
online and Amazon Studios will read and review all submissions.
Those who choose to make their projects public can also receive
feedback from the Amazon Studios community.
About Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime members have instant access to stream tens of
thousands of movies and TV episodes, including award-winning Amazon
Original Series, available at no additional cost to their
membership. In addition, new release movies like Gone Girl, Boyhood
and Birdman as well as classics like the Star Wars saga along with
in-season shows like The Walking Dead, Scandal and Better Call Saul
are also available for rent or purchase on Amazon Instant Video for
all customers to stream and enjoy.
Customers can watch shows and movies with the Amazon Instant
Video app. The Amazon Instant Video app is available on hundreds of
devices including connected TVs, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Xbox
and PlayStation, as well as on mobile devices like Fire phone, Fire
tablets, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Customers can also
watch online at Amazon.com/PIV. Amazon Prime is also the only
US online-only subscription streaming service that enables offline
viewing—on a plane, on vacation, and anywhere else where you may
not have Wi-Fi.
Prime members can enjoy binge-worthy TV shows including Amazon
Original Series airing now such as multi-Golden Globe winning
series, Transparent, the hour-long drama, Bosch, based on
Michael Connelly’s best-selling books, the Roman Coppola
and Jason Schwartzman comedy, Mozart in the
Jungle and the political comedy starring John
Goodman, Alpha House, in addition to HBO favorites
like The Sopranos, True Blood and Six Feet Under,
and popular primetime series including 24, Covert Affairs,
Downton Abbey, Extant, Falling Skies, Grimm, Hannibal, Justified,
Orphan Black, Teen Wolf, The Americans, Under the Dome and
Veronica Mars. Prime members also have access to an exclusive
collection of kids shows now airing including Amazon Original
Series’ Annedroids, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal
Street and the Annecy, Annie and multi-Emmy Award-winning Tumble
Leaf from Bix Pix Entertainment, as well as popular
shows from Nickelodeon and Nick Jr.
including SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the
Explorer, Team Umizoomi, Blue’s Clues and The
Bubble Guppies.
In addition to tens of thousands of titles to instantly stream,
the Amazon Prime membership (www.amazon.com/primevideo) includes
one million songs and hundreds of playlists with Prime Music,
unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items,
early access to select Lightning Deals, unlimited photo storage,
and access to more than 800,000 books all for $99 a
year.
About Amazon
Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The
company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire phone, Fire
tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon.
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