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AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images) A picture shows the logo of the online retailer Amazon dispalyed on computer screens in London on December 11, 2014\. Online retail giant Amazon scored its first ever Golden Globe nominations -- a breakthrough in its bid to catch up with streaming pioneer Netflix. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)LEON NEAL—AFP/Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Sep 23, 2015 6:29 PM UTC Riding the wave of its Emmys wins for _Transparent_, Amazon is partnering up with some big names for its latest pilot season. The streaming service announced Wednesday that original TV episodes from Sacha Baron Cohen, Louis C.K., Diablo Cody, Shaquille O’Neill and Tig Notaro will be available online for free this fall. Every year, Amazon releases several first episodes of shows to its streaming service. After considering critical interest, streaming data and other undisclosed internal factors, Amazon then decides whether to green light more episodes. Usually only a few make it through to a series. Sacha Baron Cohen is executive producing _Highston_, a story about a 19-year-old with a group of friends only he can see. Shaq appears in the first episode. Dark comedy _One Mississippi_ stars comedian Tig Notaro in a story loosely based on her life, her return to her childhood home in Mississippi and the death of her mother. Louis C.K. (_Louie_) and Diablo Cody (_Juno_) join Notaro as executive producers. In the historical _Z_, Christina Ricci plays Zelda Fitzgerald. The show will follow Zelda as she meets then-unpublished suitor F. Scott Fitzgerald through their marriage and turbulent relationship. _Edge_, from director Shane Black (_Lethal Weapon_, _Iron Man 3_), is based on a violent, best-selling Western of the same name. _Good Girls Revolt_ is inspired by the lawsuit female writers and researchers filed against _Newsweek_ in 1969 for discrimination in hiring and promotion, chronicled in a book _The Good Girls Revolt_. The show takes place in a fictional newsroom and stars _Pitch Perfect’_s Anna Camp. Political thriller _Patriot_ follows a CIA officer trying to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. 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