Amazon Announces 2015 Pilot Season

The 2015 Pilot Season for Amazon was announced today.

Roy Price, Amazon Studios Vice President, explains that seven new pilots are set to premiere early next year. The shows announced were Cocked, Down Dog, Mad Dogs, The Man In The High Castle, The New Yorker Presents, Point Of Honor, and Salem Rogers:

Cocked: Richard Paxson, a family man and corporate lap dog who left his family in rural Virginia twenty years before and vowed never to go back. After some unfortunate circumstances, he is forced to leave the big city and return home to help his family's gun business—one of the oldest in the country. But no good deed goes unpunished. Older brother Grady Paxson, who's a bachelor, playboy and gun aficionado, isn't so happy to have him back, and Richard's liberal wife and two opinionated teenage children are horrified by the world they have been thrown into. Hilarity, epic fights and emotional breakdowns ensue.

Down Dog: Blessed with good looks, a winning smile, hippie parents and a Southern California upbringing, life has been relatively easy thus far for Logan Wood. In his late 30's, having coasted through romances with countless women and various random jobs, he now teaches yoga to the trophy wives, hot moms and aspiring celebrities of Santa Monica and Venice Beach. And he's damn good at it. But when Logan and his current girlfriend, a successful and attractive older woman named Amanda, who happens to be the owner of the yoga studio, break up, life starts to get more complicated.

Mad Dogs: Based on the hit UK series, Mad Dogs follows the twisted reunion of a group of underachieving forty-something friends—a mixture of single, married and recently divorced—who are all at different crossroads in their lives. Celebrating the early retirement of an old friend at his gorgeous Belize villa, grudges begin to emerge and secrets explode as their trip becomes a labyrinthine nightmare of lies, deception and murder. Mad Dogs is a twisted tale of friendship put to the ultimate test. As an inconceivable chain of events unfolds, cracks within the group widen before the friends realize that the only people they can trust are each other, the last people they want to be relying on.

The Man in the High Castle: Based on Philip K. Dick's Hugo Award-winning 1962 alternative history, The Man in the High Castle considers the question of what would have happened if the Allied Powers had lost World War II. Some 20 years after that loss, the United States and much of the world has now been split between Japan and Germany, the major hegemonic states. But the tension between these two powers is mounting, and this stress is playing out in the western U.S. Through a collection of characters in various states of posing (spies, sellers of falsified goods, others with secret identities), The Man in the High Castle provides an intriguing tale about life and history as it relates to authentic and manufactured reality.

The New Yorker Presents: America's most award-winning magazine comes to life in this half hour docu-series pilot. The New Yorker Presents is a completely unique viewing experience that features Tony-Award winner Alan Cumming and actor Brett Gelman in a short film based on a story by Simon Rich and directed by Emmy Award-winning director Troy Miller; a poem by Matthew Dickman; a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme about biologist Tyrone Hayes based on a Rachel Aviv article; and an interview with famous performance artist, Marina Abramović, conducted by The New Yorker writer Ariel Levy.

Point of Honor: At the start of the Civil War, a Virginia family, led by their West Point bred son, John Rhodes, makes the controversial decision to defend the South while freeing all of their slaves. At battle against his northern brethren and his best friend and brother-in-law Robert Sumner, John leaves his three strong-willed sisters at home to run the plantation that is now without a free labor source. The choice to protect the life they have always known and defend the moral high ground will pit the family against one another and test their strength, courage and love.

Salem Rogers: In this half-hour comedy, Leslie Bibb plays Salem Rogers, an overly confident, outrageously blunt, and hard-partying former supermodel who is forced to face her past and re-enter the real world after ten years in a posh rehab center. Intent on recreating her glamorous lifestyle and modeling success, she tracks down Agatha, her former assistant who has since built a career as an author of self-help books to help her win back the spotlight.

"Our first pilot season of 2015 brings some of the greatest storytellers in the business to Amazon customers with works of novelty and passion," Price said. "We're very excited by these shows and look forward to getting customers' reactions next year."