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"Following in the steps of premium online streaming video providers like Netflix and Hulu, Amazon is beefing up its Prime Instant Video catalog by introducing an original comedy series to the mix.\nIn an unusual \u2014 and, frankly, savvy \u2014 twist, Amazon will be debuting six pilots on Instant Video for subscribers to watch and vet. Amazon will decide which series to send into production based on viewer feedback. After the winning series has finished taping, the entire series will run on Prime Instant Video in the U.S. and Lovefilm in the UK.\nFive of the six pilots are being produced by established talent; the sixth was discovered through Amazon Studios, which has reviewed some 2,000 proposals for original series since its launch in November 2010.\nA description of the pilots provided by Amazon, below:\nAlpha House\nAlpha House was written by Academy Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury, Tanner \u201988). Alpha House follows four senators who live together in a rented house in Washington, D.C.\nBrowsers\nWritten by 12-time Emmy-winning comedy writer David Javerbaum (The Daily Show) and to be directed by Don Scardino (30 Rock), Browsers is a musical comedy set in contemporary Manhattan that follows four young people as they start their first jobs at a news website.\nDark Minions\nPenned by Big Bang Theory co-stars Kevin Sussman and John Ross Bowie, Dark Minions is an animated workplace series about two slackers just trying to make a paycheck working an intergalactic warship. The pilot will be produced by Principato-Young (Reno 911).\nThe Onion Presents: The News\nThe Onion Presents: The News is a smart, fast-paced scripted comedy set behind the scenes of The Onion News Network that shows just how far journalists will go to stay at the top of their game. The Onion Presents: The News is from The Onion\u2019s Will Graham &amp; Dan Mirk (The Onion News Network, The Onion Sportsdome).\nSupanatural\nSupanatural is an animated comedy series about two outspoken divas who are humanity's last line of defense against the supernatural, when they're not working at the mall. The series, written by Lily Sparks, Price Peterson and Ryan Sandoval, will be produced by Jason Micallef (Butter) and Kristen Schaal (The Daily Show).\nThose Who Can\u2019t\nWritten by Andrew Orvedahl, Adam Cayton-Holland and Benjamin Roy (Grawlix), who were discovered through Amazon Studios online open door process, Those Who Can\u2019t is a comedy about three juvenile, misfit teachers who are just as immature, if not more so, than the students they teach.\nAmazon has not provided any details on timing. Roy Price, director of Amazon Studios, would only say that pilot production would \"begin shortly\" and will be posted to the site once complete.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, ariwasabi"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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