Amazon Studios Announces First Original TV Projects Slated for Development

By Rob Scott
June 25, 2012

Amazon Studios has announced the first four series projects selected for its development slate — three comedies and one children’s show.
“They become the first submitted scripts to be selected for the Amazon Studios Series Development Slate, extending their option on the projects and awarding their creators $10,000 in options as a result of their intention to turn them into a TV series that will be distributed through the company’s digital video streaming service, Amazon Instant Video,” reports The Next Web.
The four projects include the animated comedies “The 100 Deaths of Mort Grimley” and “Magic Monkey Billionaire,” the mockumentary “Doomsday” and a children’s project called “Buck Plaidsheep.”
Clive Barker is reportedly working on a rewrite of “Zombies vs. Gladiators,” one of 16 film projects currently being developed for Amazon Studios since the division’s launch nearly two years ago. Some 9,000 movie scripts and 1,000 series pilots have been submitted since the launch.
“In practice, it means that Amazon Studios is becoming an additional, crowdsourced content source for Amazon, while the company is increasingly venturing into original programming,” adds The Next Web.
If the programs make it to production, they will be available for streaming on Amazon Instant Video or possibly licensed to Warner Bros. and other TV companies.

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