Whit Stillman’s next work will be on Amazon.com. A TV pilot episode for a potential series, “The Comopolitans,” will be available through Amazon Studios on August 28. See a cute preview here.

“This has elements of all three of the first films,” he tells Vanity Fair, referring to his 1990 debut, 1994’s Barcelona and 1998’s The Last Days of Disco. “It’s very much like the fourth film, of those three.” He says one has to earn a living, and TV is where one can do it.

He also says he doesn’t watch TV with violence and sex, “so it knocks out almost everything.” Others say he only watches TV on airplanes.