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From the Director of The Office, Parks and Rec and The Simpsons

Greg Daniels brings you Upload, an edgy sci-fi sitcom set in a technologically advanced future where humans can choose to be ‘uploaded’ into a virtual afterlife when faced with near-death situations.

Starring Robbie Amell, Andy Allo, Kevin Bigley, Allegra Edwards and Zainab Johnson, this 10-episode series follows Nathan Brown (Robbie Ammell) who winds up in hospital after a self-driving car accident. After choosing to be ‘uploaded’ into the afterlife, he must now navigate this new norm.

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Amazon Original Australian Comedy Specials, 1 May – 8 May (two specials released weekly)

Prime Video is continuing to bring Australia’s unique approach to comedy to more than 200 countries and territories in May.

The roster of award-winning and nominated comedians for this month includes Lano & Woodley, Anne Edmonds, Tom Walker, and Tom Gleeson.

The Australian Amazon Original stand-up specials are produced by Guesswork Television and were filmed in Melbourne at the Malthouse Theatre.

The Australian Amazon Original Comedy Specials are exclusive to Amazon Prime Video and launched on 10 April, with two specials being released each week over a five week period.

Full May lineup below:

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Fly – Lano & Woodley (launching Friday 1 May)

After 12 years apart, Colin Lane and Frank Woodley have reunited to realise Col’s dream of making some important theatre, telling the epic story of the pioneers of flight, the Wright brothers. The only thing that could possibly get in the way is… well… Frank. Fly has all the ingredients that have made Lano & Woodley Australian favourites for more than 20 years, with a magical chemistry and polish that had audiences whooping with uncontrollable laughter and jumping to their feet at the conclusion of every performance.

Accolades: Winner of the People’s Choice Award, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2018; Nominated for the Barry Award for Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2018; Nominated for the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer 2018.

Very Very – Tom Walker (launching Friday 1 May)

After a massive 2018 delighting and frightening audiences around the globe with his show, Honk Honk Honk Honk Honk, Tom Walker is back and, this year, he’s decided to strip things back a bit. With a few less words in the title (just two, Very Very) and many less words in the show (he keeps saying this), this brand new hour promises to be, well, frankly, we don’t know. We do know, however, that Tom teaming up with the award-winning comedian, theatre maker, writer and all-round creative genius Zoë Coombs Marr to direct the show is making for the most exciting and exhilarating new partnership in comedy. Put Very Very at the top of your list.

Accolades: Winner of the Best Newcomer Award, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2016; Nominated for the Barry Award for Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2018.

Joy – Tom Gleeson (launching Friday 8 May)

Gold Logie winner. Chief celebrity interrogator. Host of the highest-rated Australian quiz show on TV. All-round hard man (especially in Cairns). There’s not much Tom Gleeson didn’t do in the last year – and Australia can’t get enough of him. Celebrities such as Karl Stefanovic, Lee Lin Chin and Andrew Denton keep lining up to be dragged over the coals by Tom on The Weekly’s Hard Chat. Sci-fi movie geeks and Led Zeppelin buffs are dying for the chance to impress Tom and have their shot at returning a quip on Hard Quiz, now Australia’s highest-rated quiz show. Despite his ruthless grillings, he’s still got a lot of love to give. He campaigned mercilessly to help Grant Denyer win the Gold Logie and he bloody won it, before scoring his very own little gold statue in 2019.

Accolades: Winner of the 2019 TV Week Gold Logie; Three-time Nominee for Best Comedy, Helpmann Awards.

What’s Wrong with You? – Anne Edmonds (launching Friday 8 May)

Eddo let her alter ego Helen Bidou take her spot at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival last year but now, against her better judgement, Anne has returned and she wants to know… what’s wrong with you? Not just you, but the whole lot of you. Humanity has clearly flushed its own head down the drain and she can’t decide whether to pull you all up or leave you down there. Clear eyed and in no mood to suffer fools, Eddo is as angry as she is over it.

Accolades: Nominated for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award (formerly the Barry Award), Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019; Nominated for Best Comedy Performer, Helpmann Awards 2018, 2019.

Dispatches from Elsewhere, 8 May

This anthology, drama series is based around four ordinary people who feel there’s something missing in their lives. After being brought together by chance, they stumble onto a puzzle hidden behind the veil of everyday life. Working their way through these challenges they uncover a mystery far greater than they imagined.

Executively produced by Jason Segel, this series also stars Academy Award-winner Scott Rudin (Lady Bird, Fences), showrunner Mark Friedman (Wayward Pines), Academy Award-nominee Garrett Basch (My Dinner with Hervé, The Night Of), Academy Award-nominee Eli Bush (Lady Bird, Isle of Dogs), Jeff Freilich (Lodge 49, Grace and Frankie) and Alethea Jones (Queen America, Lodge 49).

Homecoming season two, 22 May

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The critically-acclaimed series Homecoming returns for its second season with a fresh new mystery and an exciting new star, Janelle Monáe. Her character wakes in a rowboat adrift a lake, with no memory of how she got there — or even who she is. Her ensuing search for identity will lead her into the heart of the Geist Group, the unconventional wellness company behind the Homecoming Initiative.

The second season finds Stephan James reprising his role as Walter Cruz, who is trying to build a new life following the traumas of war and the Homecoming Initiative, when he begins to realise that there’s an even more insidious version of the program underway – if only he can remember. Hong Chau returns as Audrey Temple, an anonymous underling at Geist who finds herself thrust into unexpected positions at the top of the corporate ladder. Joining the cast for season two are Oscar-winner Chris Cooper as Leonard Geist, the company’s eccentric founder; and Emmy-winner Joan Cusack as Francine Bunda, an equally eccentric military woman.

Also coming to Amazon Prime Video this May

Thappad, 1 May

The Good Doctor S1-2, 5 May

A Very English Scandal, 5 May

The Halcyon, 5 May

Timeless S1-2, 5 May

Counterpart S1-2, 5 May

Kevin Can Wait S1-2, 5 May

The Goldbergs S1-6, 5 May

Late Night, 6 May

Midsommar, 6 May

Dispatches From Elsewhere, 8 May

Little Monsters, 8 May

Jimmy O Yang: Good Deal, 8 May

The Internship, 11 May

Paatal Lok, 15 May

The Last Narc, 15 May

Angel Has Fallen, 20 May

Zombieland: Double Tap, 25 May

The Vast Of Night, 29 May

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