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Amazon Freevee Reveals Premiere Date and Official Teaser for High School, Based on the New York Times Best-Selling Memoir by Tegan and Sara Quin

Aug 12, 2022

The coming-of-age series from Amazon Studios and Plan B Entertainment will premiere October 14 
 
Clea DuVall serves as executive producer, co-writer, director, and co-showrunner

Watch The Official Teaser HERE

CULVER CITY, California—August 12, 2022—Amazon Freevee has released the first footage of its long-awaited new series High School, an eight-episode coming-of-age drama based on the New York Times best-selling memoir of the same name from Grammy-nominated platinum recording artists Tegan and Sara Quin. The first four episodes of High School will premiere on Friday, October 14, with new episodes available every Friday exclusively on Amazon Freevee.
 
Produced by Amazon Studios and Emmy-and Academy Award-winning Plan B Entertainment, High School is a story about finding your own identity—a journey made even more complicated when you have a twin whose own struggle and self-discovery so closely mimic your own. Told through a backdrop of ‘90s grunge and rave culture, the series weaves between parallel and discordant memories of twin sisters growing up down the hall from one another. High School will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
 
The series stars TikTok creators Railey and Seazynn Gilliland in their television debut as the high school versions of Tegan and Sara, respectively. Special guest stars Cobie Smulders (The Avengers, How I Met Your Mother) and Kyle Bornheimer (Marriage Story, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) play the twins’ parents, Simone Bates and Patrick Twiley. Esther McGregor is also a series regular as Natalie. Rounding out the cast are recurring guest stars Olivia Rouyre as Phoebe, Amanda Fix as Maya, Brianne Tju (I Know What You Did Last Summer) as Ali, Geena Meszaros (Under the Banner of Heaven) as Lily, CJ Valleroy (NCIS: Los Angeles) as Evan, and Nate Corddry (For All Mankind) as David.
 
High School is executive produced by Clea DuVall, Tegan and Sara Quin, Laura Kittrell, and Plan B’s Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Carina Sposato. DuVall and Kittrell also serve as co-showrunners and co-writers. DuVall directs several episodes.
 
Amazon Freevee uniquely offers premium Originals on a free streaming service, including the recently launched documentary Post Malone: Runaway and Sprung, a new comedy series from Greg Garcia premiering August 19.Spanning drama and comedy, scripted and unscripted, additional Freevee Originals currently available includeBosch: Legacy, Hollywood Houselift with Jeff Lewis, Love Accidentally, UNINTERRUPTED’s Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers, Alex Rider, and Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary. Additional upcoming Originals include new seasons of Judy Justice and Leverage: Redemption, plus the family fun series Play-Doh Squished and the cooking competition series America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation. 
 
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Freevee Contacts:
Caly Johnson
calyjohn@amazon.com
 
Megan Choate
nmegacho@amazon.com
 
Sonia Koo
soniakoo@amazon.com
 
Smithhouse Strategy for Freevee:
freevee@smithhousestrategy.com

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  • Expansive Catalog: Amazon Freevee is a modern television network, offering viewers ambitious Originals, including Bosch: Legacy, the spinoff of the Prime Video series Bosch; the court program Judy Justice; the reality series Hollywood Houselift with Jeff Lewis; the documentary Post Malone: Runaway; rom-com feature Love Accidentally; the music docuseries Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary; the heist drama Leverage: Redemption; the true-crime docuseries Moment of Truth; the buddy-cop drama Pretty Hard Cases; the zany true-crime docuseries Bug Out; the spy thriller Alex Rider; the Australian crime drama Troppo; and multiple seasons of the sports docuseries UNINTERRUPTED’s Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers. Combined with an always updating library of broadly appealing hit movies and TV shows across a wide selection of genres, and a catalog of more than 100 FAST channels, including Crime 360, ION FAST, Tiny House Nation and Modern Marvels, Freevee delivers customers the content they would expect to see on a paid service.
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About Plan B Entertainment
Headed by Brad Pitt and co-presidents Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Plan B Entertainment is a long-standing film and television production company. Alongside their filmography, their acclaimed television work includes: Emmy-nominated The Underground Railroad, BAFTA-nominated The Third Day, Emmy-nominated Feud: Bette and Joan, Emmy-winning The Normal Heart, Sweetbitter, and The OA. Upcoming television projects include Outer Range, starring Josh Brolin for Prime Video, premiering April 15th; Paper Girls, with Legendary Television, based on Brian K. Vaughan’s best-selling graphic novel; High School, co-created by Platinum recording artists Tegan and Sara Quin and executive producer Clea DuVall for Amazon Freevee; and The Three-Body Problem from executive producers David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Alexander Woo, and Rian Johnson for Netflix.