Amazon has announced that Amazon Original Series’ The Man in the High Castle is the most-streamed original show ever by Prime members globally and has been renewed for a second season. The show broke a previous record set by Amazon Original Series Bosch, which is launching its second season next year. Amazon did not release any viewership figures for The Man in the High Castle, which was developed by Frank Spotnitz and executive produced by Scott Free Productions’ Ridley Scott and David Zucker, along with Isa Dick Hackett. The one-hour drama series is available exclusively on Amazon Prime.
Based on Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning 1962 alternative history novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what would have happened if the Allied Powers had lost World War II. Some 17 years after that loss, the United States, and much of the world, has been divided between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, the dominating global powers. But while Germany controls the eastern half of the United States, and Japan controls the Pacific Coast, the Rocky Mountains have become a “neutral zone”–and ground zero for a resistance movement that refuses to accept the new world order. Under the direction of a mysterious figure known only as “the Man in the High Castle,” members of the resistance hunt down an enigmatic series of black and white newsreel films that they believe hold the key to freedom–the films show footage from our own past in which the Allies, in fact, won the war.
The Man in the High Castle stars Luke Kleintank, Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Joel de la Fuente, Rufus Sewell and DJ Qualls. Frank Spotnitz developed and executive-produces the series, alongside executive producers Isa Dick Hackett and David Zucker. The show is available in US, UK, Germany, and Austria–only on Amazon Prime.
“We’re very proud of this outstanding series created by Frank Spotnitz, Scott Free and Isa Dick Hackett, which Amazon customers around the world have enthusiastically embraced, and we look forward to the second season,” said Roy Price, VP, Amazon Studios. “We hoped that once again bringing together the work of Phillip K. Dick and the vision of Ridley Scott–who brought us the classic film Blade Runner–would help deliver on our promise of creating some of the best television in the world for Prime customers, and we believe that it has.”
