Award-winning show creator Jill Soloway signs overall deal with Amazon Studios where she will exclusively develop television projects; Soloway will continue as Showrunner on Transparent and Andrea Sperling has been elevated to Executive Producer on the series

Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development), Judith Light (Dallas), Gaby Hoffmann (Girls), Amy Landecker (Louie) and Jay Duplass (Togetherness) will all return for another season

Prime members can watch season one of Transparent now using the Amazon Instant Video app for TVs, connected devices and mobile devices, or online

London - 25^th June 2015 - Amazon today announced it has greenlit a third season of the Golden Globe Award-winning series Transparent, which will become available exclusively to members of Amazon Prime in 2016. Returning cast includes Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development) as Maura Pfefferman, Judith Light (Dallas) as Shelly Pfefferman, Gaby Hoffmann (Girls) as Ali Pfefferman, Amy Landecker (Louie) as Sarah Pfefferman and Jay Duplass (Togetherness) as Josh Pfefferman. In addition, series creator Jill Soloway has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios where she will exclusively develop television projects for Amazon Prime. Soloway will continue in her role as Showrunner on Transparent and Andrea Sperling, who previously was Co-Executive Producer on the series, has been elevated to Executive Producer.

“Jill is truly a creative force and I’m thrilled that we will be collaborating with her additional projects in the future and on a third season of Transparent,” said Roy Price, Vice President, Amazon Studios. “The second season is currently starting production, and I know our members will be delighted to continue the journey with Maura and the Pfefferman family.”  

"I am so thrilled that I get to share more of the Pfeffermans' story with the world,” said Soloway. “We are all so in love with watching them change and grow. I am blown away by the creative freedom Amazon gives me and I can't wait to reveal where this journey is going to take us."

Written, directed and executive produced by multi-award winner Soloway, Transparent is a half hour novelistic series that explores family, identity, sex, and love. The series stars Tambor as Maura, who has spent her life as Mort—the Pfefferman family patriarch. When she reintroduces herself to her family, everyone else’s secrets finally start to come out. This includes her ex-wife Shelly (played by Light), and their children—meandering Ali (played by Hoffmann), record producer Josh (played by Duplass), and sexually conflicted Sarah (played by Landecker). Each family member spins in a different direction as they figure out who they won’t become.

Amazon Prime members can watch Season One of Transparent using the Amazon Instant Video app for TVs, connected and mobile devices or online at www.amazon.co.uk/transparent. Amazon will premiere the highly anticipated second season of Transparent this autumn exclusively for Prime members on Amazon Instant Video in the UK, Germany and the US. The series will begin production next week in Los Angeles. Additional details, including guest stars, will be announced in the coming months. Members can watch shows and movies on Amazon Instant Video UK on more than 400 devices, including Amazon Fire TV and the newly released Fire TV Stick, Fire tablets, iPad, iPhone, Amazon Fire Phone, Android phones, Android tablets, Xbox, PlayStation, Wii and Wii U, and online at www.amazon.co.uk/PIV.

Customers who are not already Prime members can sign up for a free trial at www.amazon.co.uk/prime.

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About Amazon Studios

Amazon Studios has premiered a number of critically-acclaimed series that include Bosch, based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling books, Mozart in the Jungle, from Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Paul Weitz, and Jill Soloway’s multi-Golden Globe Award-winning dark comedy Transparent. The studio has also launched its first live-action series for kids 6-11, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street and three additional children’s series, the Annecy, Annie and multi-Emmy Award-winning Tumble Leaf from Bix Pix Entertainment; Creative Galaxy from Angela C. Santomero and Out of the Blue Enterprises, the creators of Blue’s Clues; and Annedroids, from Emmy nominated Sinking Ship Entertainment.

Amazon Studios has also announced eight additional, original series will premiere in 2015 and early 2016 exclusively on Prime Instant Video including Hand of God, Mad Dogs, The Man in the High Castle, docu-series The New Yorker Presents, Red Oaks, a second season of Transparent, as well as kids series Wishenpoof!, Just Add Magic, and The Stinky & Dirty Show.

About Amazon Prime Instant Video

Amazon Prime is the UK’s largest online video streaming service, offering subscriber’s unlimited access to over 15,000 popular movies and TV episodes. As well as exclusive TV and film content, such as Extant, Outlander, Halt & Catch Fire, TURN, The Great Gatsby and Due Date, Amazon Prime is the only place to watch critically acclaimed Amazon Original shows, such as 2015 Golden Globe winning TV Series Transparent and critically acclaimed Mozart in the Jungle and Ripper Street Season 3. Amazon Prime also offers customers unprecedented picture clarity with Amazon Original shows available for unlimited streaming in Ultra HD at no extra cost on compatible Sony, Samsung and LG Ultra HD smart TVs.

Amazon Prime is available on more than 400 devices, including Amazon Fire TV and the newly released Fire TV Stick, Fire tablets, iPad, Android tablets, iPhone, Amazon Fire Phone, Android phones Xbox, PlayStation, Wii and Wii U, and through the web at www.amazon.co.uk/PIV. Amazon Prime is available at no extra cost to Prime members, who also benefit from unlimited One-Day Delivery on over 9 million items, unlimited photo storage in Amazon Cloud Drive and access to 800,000 Kindle books to borrow.

Customers who are not already members can start a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime by visiting www.amazon.co.uk/prime. For more information about Prime, visit www.amazon.co.uk/PIV. Amazon also offers all customers more than 50,000 popular movies and TV episodes available to digitally rent or buy through Amazon Instant Video, including latest releases like Big Hero 6, Taken 3, Shawn the Sheep the Movie and Kingsmen: The Secret Service.

About Amazon

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