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The untitled Woody Allen TV series is a television series writer and director Woody Allen is developing for Amazon Studios, to air in 2016. Allen will write and direct episodes for the half-hour series, marking the first time he has done so for a television show. It will be available exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. Amazon has ordered a full season. Allen has said of the series, "I don’t know how I got into this. I have no ideas and I’m not sure where to begin. My guess is that Roy Price will regret this", a reference to Price, the head of Amazon Studios.

The deal with Allen was seen as giving Amazon a possible advantage in its competition with Netflix and television networks. The series was announced within days of Amazon winning two Golden Globe Awards for for the comedy Transparent.

Allen had last written for television in the 1950s, when he wrote for Sid Caesar. He writes scripts in longhand and has never sent an email.