Amazon is beefing up its slate of original programming for 2016.

Hours after renewing prestige historical series The Man in the High Castle, the company has also renewed coming-of-age comedy Red Oaks and drama Hand of God,  The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Additionally, the company has handed out series orders to eight new projects, including Highston, One Mississippi, Z: The Beginning of Everything, Good Girls Revolt and Patriot, as well as children's series Danger & Eggs, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Niko and the Sword of Light.

Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, Red Oaks is a comedy-of-age set in 1980s New Jersey starring Jennifer Grey, Richard Kind, Paul Reiser and breakout Oliver Cooper.

From Bob Nelson (Nebraska), directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) and executive producer Sacha Baron Cohen, Highston is a family comedy centered around 19-year-old Highston Liggetts (Lewis Pullman) who has a number of celebrity friends that only he can see. His parents, played by Mary Lynn Rajskuband Chris Parnell, force him to get psychiatric help but his uncle Billy (Curtis Armstrong) thinks he's fine. The pilot guest-stars Shaquille O'Neal and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, and was written by Nelson, directed by Dayton and Faris and executive produced by Cohen, Todd Hoffman(Love Stinks), Nelson and Todd Schulman (Bruno).

Set in 1969, Good Girls Revolt centers on a group of young female researchers at "News of the Week" who seek to be treated fairly, a pursuit that ultimately upends marriages, careers and various relationships. Inspired by landmark sexual discrimination cases chronicled in Lynn Povich's The Good Girls Revolt, the project features actors playing a number of real people including Eleanor Holmes Norton (Joy Bryant) and Nora Ephron (Grace Gummer). Jim Belushi will play Wick McFadden. The pilot also features Pitch Perfect's Anna Camp, Weeds' Hunter Parrish, Silicon Valley's Chris Diamantopoulos, Erin Darke and Genevieve Angelson. A co-production with TriStar Television, Good Girls Revolt was written by Dana Calvo (Made in Jersey), directed by Liza Johnson (Return), and executive produced by Calvo, Obst, Darlene Hunt (The Big C), Don Kurt (Justified) and Jeff Okin (Dark Skies).

The series pickups comes as Amazon prepares for a big 2016. In addition to earning Golden Globe nominations for both Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle, the company is getting ready to launch one of its most high-profile series to date: David E. Kelley's The Trial starring Billy Bob Thornton. The series was the first not to go through Amazon's traditional pilot process, which allows viewers to vote on their favorites.

Original Article Source: The Hollywood Reporter