Amazon Customers Make Alpha House the Most-Watched Show over the Weekend

Amazon Customers Make Alpha House the Most-Watched Show over the Weekend

Second Amazon original series, Betas, debuts this Friday

After the first three episodes, which are available to all Amazon customers, Alpha House and Betas will be available exclusively to Amazon Prime members through Prime Instant Video

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2013-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)-Amazon today announced that following its Friday debut, Alpha House was the number one most-watched show on Amazon through the weekend. The series, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Trudeau and starring John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson and Matt Malloy, is available exclusively at www.amazon.com/instantvideo and on the Amazon Instant Video app for Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Roku, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Wii U, as well as hundreds of other connected devices.

The first three episodes of Alpha House are available for free for all Amazon customers. Beginning this Friday, one new episode will become available each week, exclusively on Prime Instant Video, with episode four available on November 22. Customers who are not already Prime members can sign up for a trial at www.amazon.com/primevideos.

The Amazon Studios process is designed to use data and feedback from customers to help us create and launch shows they will love, said Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. It is incredibly rewarding to see that process working-customers loved the pilot and we're getting the same reaction to the series. We're excited to introduce Betas later this week.

Amazon will debut its second original series, Betas, this Friday. Set in the land of Silicon Valley start-ups, Betas, written by Evan Endicott and Josh Stoddard, follows four friends as they attempt to strike it rich with a new mobile social networking app. Joe Dinicol, Karan Soni, Jon Daly, Charlie Saxton, and Maya Erskine star in the show, with special appearances from Ed Begley Jr. (Arrested Development, St. Elsewhere). Michael Lehmann directs and produces the show along with Executive Producers and Emmy Award winners Alan Freedland and Alan Cohen, and Academy Award nominee Michael London.

The first three episodes of Betas will be available for free for all Amazon customers. After that, one new episode will become available each week, exclusively on Prime Instant Video, with episode four available on November 29.

Here's what TV critics are saying about Alpha House:

Alpha House is confirmed funny and an accomplished piece of work. - LA Times

Amazons entry into this suddenly cluttered marketplace is not just seriously funny, but its as bracingly timely as the latest exasperating political headline. - TV Guide

The singular John Goodman embodies with both force and nuance a long-serving North Carolinian named Gil John Biggs; actor/director Clark Johnson ( The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street ) brings depth and swagger to his Pennsylvania legislator, Robert Bettencourt; veteran Trudeau troupe member Matt Malloy (the Tanner series, Six Feet Under ) deftly lets you feel his serial humiliation as Nevada incumbent Louis Laffer; and Mark Consuelos is a revelation as Florida lawmaker/playboy (not necessarily in that order) Andy Guzman. - Washington Post

the online retailing giants instant-video service follows Netflix and Hulu into the original programming game with the launch of three episodes of Alpha House, a very funny political comedy from Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and journalist Jonathan Alter that could hold its own with HBOs Veep. - Philly.com

time to add another potential winner to the list of shows you're already watching. - The Hollywood Reporter

Amazon has winner with Alpha House - San Francisco Chronicle

in terms of Alpha House achieving something that looks like victory, so far, mission accomplished. - Variety

its smartly written and the cast jells from the start. - San Jose Mercury News

Amazon Primes New Original Show Is Scandal for Dudes. - Refinery29

Goodmans adept with physical comedy - the shower nap is a highlight... - indieWire

About Amazon Studios

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 and will then be notified within 45 days if that script is optioned. Amazon Studios will read and review all submissions and those who choose to make their projects public may also receive feedback from the Amazon Studios community. Recently, Amazon Studios announced 11 new pilots including: kids pilots Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, Grid Smasher, Hard-Boiled Eggheads, The Jo B. & G. Raff Show, The Maker Shack Agency, Wishenpoof!; comedy pilots Mozart in the Jungle, The Rebels and Transparent; and drama pilots Bosch and The After. The pilots will be available on Amazon Instant Video and LOVEFiLM early next year for all customers to watch and provide feedback. On November 22, Amazon Studios will debut its second comedy series Betas available exclusively on Prime Instant Video.

Since launch, more than 19,000 movie scripts and 5,000 series projects have been submitted to Amazon Studios. Amazon Studios continues to invite series creators to upload their proposals for drama, comedy and children's programming at http://studios.amazon.com/getting-started/series or submit them privately via Amazon Studios.

Comprehensive cast and crew information, including bios and filmographies, is available on Amazon's IMDb (www.imdb.com), the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Select

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