Last minute mom gift facilitator Amazon has just announced that it will debut two new original comedy series this month: political satire Alpha House and Silicon Valley start-up send-up Betas.
Alpha House features John Goodman and is written by Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau. The series follows the adventures of a group of Republican senators who rent a house together in Washington, DC. Betas follows four young friends as they attempt to launch a new social networking app. Alpha House will debut on November 15 and Betas will follow on November 22.
Alpha and Beta are a result of Amazon's recent round of voters-choose approach to series development. Last March, the company made 12 comedy and children's series pilots available for free via Instant Video and allowed customers to vote on which got picked for a full season run.
Amazon recently announced it would conduct a similar viewer-based approach to dramatic series development by greenlighting two new hour-long pilots: A police drama from The Wire co-writer Eric Overmyer, and a sci-fi pilot from X-Files creator Chris Carter.
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