Fleabag coming to Amazon Prime Video this Friday
From Friday 10 February, the hugely anticipated UK comedy Fleabag is coming to Australia on Amazon Prime Video.
The 6-part series, starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a dry, witty, failing cafe owner. Extremely positive word of mouth has made the show one of the most eagerly sought shows of recent times.
In addition to Fleabag, new series of Goliath (17 February) and Z: The Beginning of Everything (24 February) will also launch locally. The most recent seasons of Transparent and Mozart in The Jungle will be released, following an exclusive window on competitor Stan.
The Billy Bob Thornton series Goliath, written by David E. Kelley recently ranked #9 on the Televised Revolution top 10 shows of 2016.
Fleabag
On February 10, the half hour series Fleabag will premiere on Amazon Prime Video. Written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Crashing, Broadchurch), Fleabag is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman (Waller-Bridge), as she hurls herself at modern living in London. The show is based on Waller-Bridge’s play Fleabag, which won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the Critics’ Circle and Off-West End Awards for Most Promising Playwright and a Special Commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Fleabag also stars Brett Gelman (Twin Peaks), Olivia Colman (Peep Show), Bill Paterson (Outlander), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Hugh Skinner (Poldark), Jamie Demetriou(People Time), Jenny Rainsford (The Smoke), and Sian Clifford (Paddy). The series is directed by Harry Bradbeer (Dickensian), and executive produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Harry Williams and Jack Williams (The Missing).
Goliath
On February 17, Prime Video members can watch the debut season of Goliath, one of the most-binged Amazon Original Series. Goliath stars Golden Globe and Oscar Winner Billy Bob Thornton (Fargo) and Oscar Winner William Hurt (Broadcast News) in the ultimate David vs. Goliath battle fought in the 21st century American legal system. The series follows a down-and-out lawyer (Thornton) as he seeks redemption. His one shot depends on getting justice in a legal system where truth has become a commodity, and the scales of justice have never been more heavily weighed toward the rich and powerful. Written by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal) and Jonathan Shapiro (The Practice), Goliath also stars Olivia Thirlby (Juno), Maria Bello (Prisoners),Molly Parker (House of Cards), Nina Arianda (Florence Foster Jenkins) and Tania Raymonde (Lost), Britain Dalton (Criminal Minds) and Australian actress Sarah Wynter (24). The series is executive produced by Kelley, Shapiro, Ross Fineman (Lights Out), David Semel and Larry Trilling (Parenthood).
Transparent Season 3
On February 17, the latest season of Transparent will premiere on Prime Video. Transparent stars Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development), Gaby Hoffmann (Girls), Amy Landecker (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Judith Light (The Assembled Parties) and Jay Duplass. The series follows a nuclear family splintering into disparate journeys on their continued path of self-discovery. After a jarring reality check, Maura, having found romantic partnership with Vicki and acceptance from her family, seeks to become the woman she envisions through gender confirmation surgery. Meanwhile, Sarah and Ali embark on two different approaches to connecting to their spirituality. And Josh, disengaged from work and love, suffers from a harrowing loss that forces him to reconcile with his past once and for all. All paths converge on a family cruise to Mexico, affirming that though their family history is murky, each Pfefferman is their truest self when they come together.
Mozart in the Jungle Season 3
On February 17, the third season of Mozart in the Jungle, a half-hour comedic drama based on the critically-acclaimed memoir Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs & Classical Music by Blair Tindall will premiere on Prime Video. Starring Gael García Bernal (Bad Education) and Lola Kirke (Gone Girl) and featuring Bernadette Peters, Saffron Burrows and Malcolm McDowell, the third season opens in the midst of a grand Italian adventure. Rodrigo takes on a brand-new artistic challenge: conducting the great opera diva Alessandra in her long-awaited return concert in Venice, Italy. He’s swept up in the city, communing with its rich musical history as Alessandra pulls him into a passionate collaboration that quickly becomes operatic in its own right. Hailey travels across Europe with the Andrew Walsh Ensemble, finding it’s not everything that she’d hoped — but discovering a passion for conducting along the way. During the months since the lockout, the symphony has been torn apart. Many of the players can’t be in the same room as each other and tense negotiations have become personal for Cynthia and Gloria. The musicians are challenged to become individuals again, confronting life without their orchestra family at the centre.
Z: The Beginning of Everything
On February 24, Z: The Beginning of Everything — a fictionalised bio series of the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant, Jazz Age in the 20s — will debut globally on Amazon Prime Video. Starring Christina Ricci (Pan Am) and David Hoflin (One Upon a Time), the series begins the moment Zelda meets the unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in Montgomery, Alabama in 1918 and moves through their passionate, turbulent love affair and their marriage — made in heaven, lived out in hell — as the celebrity couple of their time. It will show the alcoholism, adultery and struggle with dashed dreams and mental illness that leads to Zelda’s tragic, untimely end. Z: The Beginning of Everything dives into the fascinating life of a woman ahead of her time, an artist determined to establish her own identity in the tempestuous wake of a world-famous husband. It is a modern take on one of the most notorious love stories of all time, played out in salons and speak-easies from Montgomery, Alabama to the Cote d’Azur.
