Amazon may be taking a cue from Netflix and Hulu and setting its sights on creating an original content TV series. According to Variety, the Web giant is about to greenlight a new comedy series called "Browsers."
This comedy will apparently be a musical based on four interns working in a newsroom similar to the Huffington Post, Variety reports. The series was first made for CBS but was then shopped to Amazon via production company Netco. (Disclosure: CBS is the parent company of CNET News.)
If indeed Amazon is working on releasing "Browsers," it would be the first ongoing series launched by the company. Earlier this year, rumors floated that Amazon was looking to create TV shows when a company executive posted to his LinkedIn account that he was currently the vice president of original television at Amazon.
Also, in May, the company put out a call for pilots for original comedies and kids shows for its Amazon Instant Video service. Since it launched in November 2010, Amazon Studios had focused on films, both full-length features and shorter films. But this was its first announcement of moving into episodic programming.
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