Customers can experience Transparent through the eyes of the series creator Jill Soloway and the show’s stars, including Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker, and Jay Duplass, with behind-the-scenes audio commentary on the making of the show

LONDON —3rd June, 2015: Amazon today announced a special audio commentary version of the multi-Golden Globe award-winning series Transparent is now available. Prime members eager for the inside scoop on their favorite moments can experience the series through the eyes of the show’s creator Jill Soloway and cast members including Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker and Jay Duplass. To listen to the audio commentary, Prime members in the UK and US can look for the “audio commentary” version of Transparent, which is available using the Amazon Instant Video app for TVs, connected and mobile devices or online at www.amazon.co.uk/transparentcommentary.

"People are always coming up and asking me questions about how the show came together,” said Soloway. “With this audio commentary, they can hear it for themselves—whether we’re reminiscing about the technicalities of production or just showcasing some of the chemistry we shared. I can’t wait for our fans to sink their teeth into some of our behind-the-scenes goodness."

Through the new audio commentary, Soloway, along with select members of the Transparent cast will give listeners interesting facts about the show’s creation, as well as some favourite moments. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the behind-the-scenes commentary:

  • Curious how Jeffrey Tambor’s iconic line, “My whole life I’ve been dressing up like a man,” came about? It was inspired by a reaction from one of Jill’s friends to the news of her own parent’s transition.
  • The scene in episode four where Ali and Sarah have their first post-Maura discussion was Amy Landecker and Gaby Hoffmann’s first scene together. The dialogue was based on Jill’s actual conversation with her sister Faith, a staff writer, and was used as an audition scene.
  • The cereal boxes that Josh’s love notes from Rita are stored in are actually real hiding spots that came from Jim Frohna, the Director of Photography. He used these during a relationship he had in college.
  • In the first episode, Maura's post-meal phone call and costume change remains one of the most beautiful moments of the whole season for Jill Soloway.

Written, directed and executive produced by multi-award winner Soloway, Transparent is a half hour novelistic series that explores family, identity, sex, and love. The series stars Tambor as Maura, who has spent her life as Mort—the Pfefferman family patriarch. When she reintroduces herself to her family, everyone’s secrets finally start to come out. This includes her ex-wife Shelly (played by Light), and their children—meandering Ali (played by Hoffmann), record producer Josh (played by Duplass), and sexually conflicted Sarah (played by Landecker). Each family member spins in a different direction as they begin to figure out who they are going to become.

Customers can watch Transparent - with Audio Commentary now exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the UK on more than 400 devices, including Amazon Fire TV and the newly released Fire TV Stick, Fire tablets, iPad, iPhone, Amazon Fire Phone, Android phones, Android tablets, Xbox, PlayStation, Wii and Wii U, and online at www.amazon.co.uk/PIV.

Customers who are not already Prime members can sign up for a free trial at www.amazon.co.uk/prime.

About Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios recently debuted new episodes of its first live-action series for kids 6 to 11, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street and has also launched three additional children’s series, the Annecy, Annie and multi-Emmy award-winning Tumble Leaf from Bix Pix Entertainment; Creative Galaxy from Angela C. Santomero and Out of the Blue Enterprises, the creators of Blue’s Clues; and Emmy nominated Annedroids, from Sinking Ship Entertainment. All four children’s series have been picked up for second seasons and honoured by the Parents’ Choice Foundation. The studio has also debuted a number of original drama series including Bosch based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling books; dramatic comedy Mozart in the Jungle from Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Paul Weitz, John Strauss and Alex Timbers and Jill Soloway’s multi-Golden Globe Award-winning dark comedy Transparent.

Amazon Studios has also announced that eight additional, original series will premiere in 2015 and early 2016 exclusively on Prime Instant Video including kids series Wishenpoof!, Just Add Magic, and The Stinky & Dirty Show as well as adult originals Hand of God, Mad Dogs, The Man in the High Castle, docu-series The New Yorker Presents, Red Oaks, and a second season of Transparent.

Amazon Studios launched in 2010 as a new way to develop feature films and episodic series—one that’s open to great ideas from creators and audiences around the world. Anyone can upload a script online and Amazon Studios will read and review all submissions. Those who choose to make their projects public can also receive feedback from the Amazon Studios community.

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Customers who are not already members can start a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime by visiting www.amazon.co.uk/prime. For more information about Prime, visit www.amazon.co.uk/PIV. Amazon also offers all customers more than 50,000 popular movies and TV episodes available to digitally rent or buy through Amazon Instant Video, including latest releases like Big Hero 6, Taken 3, Shawn the Sheep the Movie and Kingsmen: The Secret Service.

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