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FX hopes for Better Things with Louis C.K.

US cable channel FX has ordered a comedy pilot from Pamela Adlon and Louis star Louis C.K. The show, Better Things, will star Adlon as a single parent of three girls struggling to enjoy life. Adlon, who appears in FX comedy Louis, created and wrote the pilot with C.K. Both executive produce along with Blair […]

Amazon pilot is truTV’s debut scripted series

A rejected Amazon Studios pilot has become the first full-length scripted series for US cable channel truTV. The Turner Broadcasting System-owned entertainment channel has ordered a pilot of Those Who Can’t (WT), which comes from Denver-based comedy troupe The Grawlix. Though truTV says the original Amazon Prime Instant Video pilot “tested very high”, it was […]

Amazon chooses first-ever original TV series

Amazon has selected the pilots that it will take to series with a John Goodman comedy, another from True Blood director Michael Lehmann and three kids series. The five series come from a pool of 14 pilots that Amazon launched on its Prime Instant Video service in the US and Lovefilm service in the UK […]

Amazon launching first original series

Online retailer Amazon is set to go head to head with rival Netflix as it finalises a deal for its first original series. Amazon Studios, the company’s programming arm, is to pilot Browsers, a single camera comedy from 3 Arts Entertainment and David Javerbaum, a staff writer at The Daily Show. The series was previously […]