Am I Slow on the Uptake? Amazon Prime Original Programming

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The six comedies include two animated series and one musical.

The studio is working with new talent as well as Hollywood names. Academy Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Trudeau ("Doonsbury," "Tanner '88") is working on the pilot for "Alpha House," a series about four senators in Washington, D.C. who live together in a rented house.

"Browsers" is a musical from Emmy-winning comedy writer David Javerbaum ("The Daily Show") and director Don Scardino ("30 Rock") about four young people working their first jobs at a news website in Manhattan.

Two "Big Bang Theory" regulars, Kevin Sussman (Stuart) and John Ross Bowie (Barry Kripke), created the animated series "Dark Minions." The animated workplace series is about two slackers working for their wages on an intergalactic warship. The pilot will be produced by Principato-Young ("Reno 911").

"The Onion Presents: The News" is a behind-the-scenes scripted comedy that takes place at the offices of the satirical paper. It's developed by The Onion's Will Graham and Dan Mirk ("The Onion News Network," "The Onion Sportsdome").

Amazon Studios is also expecting two more pilots. The animated "Supanatural" is a "Buffy"-style comedy about two divas who are humanity's last defense. The show is written by Lily Sparks, Price Peterson and Ryan Sandoval, and produced by Jason Micallef ("Butter") and Kristen Schaal ("The Daily Show"). The title of the show "Those Who Can't" is a play on the saying "Those who can, do; Those who can't, teach." The show is a comedy about three juvenile, misfit teachers who are as immature as the students they teach. It came to Amazon studios through the Amazon Studios online open door process, and is written by Andrew Overdahl, Adam Cayton-Holland and Benjamin Roy ("Grawlix").

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